Global Courant 2023-05-23 05:21:32
For a prosecutor in the Emmily Rodrigues (26) case, the young Brazilian who fell from a sixth floor in Retiro and died, it was not “a natural death” and said that it should “investigate whether it constituted a femicide.” She did so by asking that businessman Francisco Sáenz Valiente (52), owner of the department of Libertad 1542, be arrested again.
While Emmily’s father spoke to the media and said it was a “terrible crime.” The complaint representing the family and another prosecutor also requested that the defendant return to jail.
In an oral hearing held this afternoon before Chamber 6 of the National Criminal and Correctional Appeals Chamber, those of the Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the preventive detention of the accused for abandonment of person followed by death and facilitation of narcotic drugs.
Meanwhile, the plaintiff lawyer requested prosecution for “femicide” and the supply of drugs; to which he added a possible crime of “homicide criminis causa”, arguing that Sáenz Valiente killed Emmily to hide an alleged sexual assault.
For their part, the intervening chambermaids, Magdalena Laiño, Ricardo Matías Pinto and Ignacio Rodríguez Varela; Due to the complexity of the case, it will take more than five days from this Monday to decide if they confirm the lack of merit issued by the Investigating Judge Martín Del Viso to Sáenz Valiente or if they prosecute him, with or without preventive detention , for any of the crimes requested by the accusers.
The Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor 10, Santiago Vismara; and Mariela Labozzetta, from the Specialized Fiscal Unit for Violence against Women (UFEM); They asked at the hearing that Sáenz Valiente be prosecuted with preventive detention for “providing narcotic drugs free of charge and a place to consume them in an ideal contest with abandonment of a person aggravated by the result of death”, crimes that provide for penalties of up to 15 years in prison .
At the beginning of the presentation, Vismara maintained that “the case involves violence against a woman, which means that international commitments assumed by the Argentine State in this matter are at stake.”
Emmily Rodrigues Santos Gomes’s father (first on the left of the photo) and the lawyer Ignacio Trimarco (first of the group). Photo Maxi Failla.
The prosecutor explained that the defendant’s behavior was “determinant” for the death of the young woman, as reported by the Attorney General of the Nation in a statement.
In her turn, the head of the UFEM considered that “it was clear that what happened with Emmily was not a natural death and that it should be investigated whether it constituted a femicide.”
For the prosecutors, the abandonment of the person occurred because the defendant only intervened at 9:13 a.m. to call 911 when the event had started around 7 a.m.
“Why didn’t he call before? Why did he just wait until the screams were heard by the neighbors? The answer is very simple: because neither Emmily’s life nor his health mattered to him,” said Labozzetta, who along with Vismara they justified the preventive detention in a “serious danger of escape” and “obstruction” of the investigation.
Emmily Rodrigues Santos Gomes (26), the Brazilian model who died when she fell from a sixth floor in Retiro.
Before the prosecutors, the one who exposed before the chambers was Ignacio Trimarco, the lawyer who represents Emmily’s parents in the file, Arístides Da Silva Gomes and Catia Cilene Rodrigues Santos, and who also required that Sáenz Valente return to prison.
“Without a doubt, all the evidence is abundant and shows that, in fact, she was the victim of a terrible crime,” the father of the Brazilian model told the press minutes before the hearing.
When asked what he thinks happened to his daughter, Gomes, who is a lawyer, replied: “She was forced to do something she did not want to do and unfortunately she committed this terrible and very sad behavior. I am fully convinced that she would never commit a suicide. She was a healthy, happy girl with goals in life.”
In turn, the lawyer Trimarco criticized Judge Del Viso for having issued on April 18 the lack of merit that allowed the agricultural and mining businessman to recover his freedom after being detained for 20 days for the case.
“The lack of merit dictated by the judge is quite striking. Both the prosecution and this complaint understood that there was sufficient evidence for a prosecution to be issued at this stage until we can reach an oral trial where we can reach a verdict, either condemnatory or acquittal,” he said.
For Trimarco, “the evidence is overwhelming and from the lack of merit until now, new elements have been incorporated that distort and destroy the entire strategy of the accused.”
In this sense, he stressed that “the messages that Sáenz Valiente had previously sent were found where he bought drugs, where he offered them to the girls and where he summoned them to their homes.”
He also mentioned that “the new 911 audios were incorporated where Emmily’s last words are clearly heard, which are ‘no please, please, please!’ It is clearly a woman who is asking for help.”
Like the prosecutors, the lawyer spoke of a “sexualized scene” and in this regard remarked that “the last witness who testified said he had seen Sáenz Valiente, as soon as the event happened, in boxers, and let’s remember that Emmily falls naked.”
On the other hand, the defendant’s lawyers, Rafael Cúneo Libarona and Gustavo Orazi, argued before the chambermaids that the drugs they had bought were only for personal consumption, that Emmily suffered a “psychotic break” due to consumption and that the only thing Sáenz tried Brave was helping her by calling 911 twice for help and trying to hold her when she jumped out the window.
This hearing was originally scheduled for May 16, but the chambers decided to postpone it to first learn about the scene of the events in a visual inspection, which was carried out last Wednesday.
Since Judge Del Viso issued the lack of merit, various tests and elements were incorporated into the file that the chambers must now evaluate.
Francisco Sáenz Valiente could go back to jail.
On the one hand, the toxicological studies revealed that before falling into the void, the Brazilian model consumed alcohol (1.0 grams in blood was the dosage), cocaine, marijuana, ketamine and MDMA (one of the components of the synthetic drug “Tuci”, the Abbreviated form of calling “Tucibi” from the English pronunciation of the acronym 2C-B, which is the misnamed “pink cocaine”).
After having dinner at a restaurant on the Costanera Norte and going through a bar in Palermo, at 3:21 on March 30, Emmily (26) arrived with two friends at Sáenz Valiente’s apartment, on the sixth floor of the Libertad 1542 building. , in Retiro, where there was already a fourth woman.
After an early morning of excesses with the intake of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and “tuci”, Rodrigues suffered an apparent psychotic break and at 9.18 he ended up falling out of a bare window into the inner courtyard of the building’s block lung, when only Sáenz was in the apartment Brave and one of her friends.
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