Global Courant
He is 19 years old and asked to serve his sentence in the Paso de los Libres unit, Corrientes, to be close to his family.
A 19-year-old young man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing a plastic artist from Paso de los Libres, Corrientes, with a blow to the head, after breaking into his house to steal. The defendant acknowledged his guilt in an abbreviated trial that took place just ten months after the event occurred.
During the brief hearing that took place this Tuesday, Ezequiel Rojas only asked the Judge of Guarantees Daniel Insaurralde to be able to serve the sentence in the Paso de los Libres Penal Unit, to be close to his family.
The crime occurred on August 22 of last year in a house that is on Coronel López street, almost Carlos Pellegrini, in Paso de los Libres. There lived only the renowned plastic artist Jorge “Pocho” Egger, 89 years old.
Jorge Egger was attacked in his home by the now convicted Ezequiel Rojas
The next day, a neighbor decided to go to the house because he hadn’t seen him since the day before. The victim was lying on the floor, with a strong blow to the head and unable to get up.
Egger was rushed to the hospital, where he was found to have severe head trauma, hypothermia and dehydration. Due to his condition, the doctors transferred him to intensive care, where he died five days later.
During his transfer, the retiree said that he had been hit on the head but could not see his attacker.
A neighbor of the artist was the one who provided the first data to arrest Rojas. The woman said that a young man was offering a bottle of “Pocho” and a cell phone for sale and that he had boasted to others that he had been the one who hit him with a horse and that he had plans to return to the house in search of other things of his own. worth.
Rojas was arrested a short time later and Judge Insaurralde ordered preventive detention for one year. In the following weeks, prosecutor Mauro Casco managed to add a series of evidence that put the young man in a delicate procedural situation.
There were several people who recognized him as the boy who offered the victim’s bottle and cell phone for sale.
abbreviated trial
This Tuesday, Rojas appeared before the judge together with his lawyer, Norberto Samite, and expressed his decision to resolve the case in a full abbreviated trial.
The detainee, who that day would have acted under the influence of narcotics, accepted the proposal of the prosecutor Daniela Di Tomaso to be sentenced to 20 years in prison for the crimes of “homicide on the occasion of robbery and estelionato”.
Egger was a well-known plastic artist from Paso de los Libres and in the days after his death there were public demonstrations to demand clarification of the attack that ended his life.
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