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The Court announced the sentence for the agents accused of the death of four boys after a police chase to the shots and subsequent crash in May 2019.
The Oral Criminal Court 4 (TOC) of La Plata sentenced this Friday to life imprisonment and 15 years in jail the four Buenos Aires police officers already found guilty by a popular jury of the “San Miguel del Monte Massacre”, in which four young people died in 2019 while being shot at by members of that security force.
The two officers sentenced to life imprisonment are Rubén García and Leonardo Ecilapé, while the rest, Mariano Ibáñez and Manuel Monreal, were sentenced to 15 years in prison, Judge Carolina Crispiani announced this afternoon when reading the sentence.
The two policemen who will have to serve the maximum sentence were found co-authors of the crime of “aggravated homicide due to abuse of police function and for being committed through the use of a firearm” to the detriment of Danilo Sansone (13), Camila López (13 ), Gonzalo Domínguez (14) and Aníbal Suárez (22), “in ideal competition with the crime of attempted homicide aggravated by the abuse of their police function and by the use of a firearm”, for the attack on the survivor Rocío Quagliarello.
Meanwhile, the other two were declared as co-authors of “attempted homicide aggravated by the abuse of their police function and by the use of a firearm (four victims) in ideal competition with the crime of attempted homicide aggravated by abuse of his police function and for the use of a firearm (a victim)” Today’s final hearing was broadcast on the YouTube channel of the Buenos Aires Supreme Court of Justice.
The four police officers had already been found guilty of these crimes on May 17 unanimously by the 12 people’s juries that had the role of judging them.
In the cessation hearing held last week, the prosecutor Mariano Sibuet and the complaints representing the victims had requested a life sentence for police officers García and Ecilapé and 20 years for Ibáñez and Monreal.
The fact
The “Monte Massacre” occurred in the early morning of May 20, 2019, when the Fiat 147 car in which the victims were driving hit the Route 3 collector against a trailer of a truck, after a pursuit of shots by from the police.
The Fiat 147 began to be pursued by a first police vehicle in which García and Ecilapé were circulating and in a lock operation another mobile was added in which Monreal and Ibáñez were.
As determined in the debate, Ibáñez was the one driving a police mobile and crossed the path of the car in which the victims were traveling at the intersection of Chubut and Caseros streets, where Monreal fired a shot with his .9-millimeter caliber pistol that He injured Domínguez in the pelvis, but the Fiat 147 continued with the escape towards the collector of Route 3, pursued by the other patrol car, in which García and Ecilapé were circulating.
At that moment, a second sequence began in which the patrolman commanded by Ecilapé chases the car that ends up hitting the trailer of a truck that was stopped, where the four young people died.
