Global Courant 2023-05-11 04:04:04
More witnesses complicated the four policemen who are being tried for the death of four boys.
The witnesses who testified before the jury that must decide on the “Monte Massacre” set up an unfavorable scenario for the accused police officers. In the third hearing of the oral trial, they provided data that maintains that on the night that the four adolescents who were in a Fiat 147 died, there was an extensive police pursuit for several kilometers from the town while at least six shots were heard fired by those who were in the patrolman
There are no indications of alleged crimes committed by the victims.
Thus, the theory supported by the defense vanishes: that Aníbal Suarez (22), the driver of the car, who ended up being hit by a truck trailer, was driving irresponsibly due to excess alcohol or other motivation. Everything would indicate that he was seeking to avoid the Buenos Aires agents who had already harassed him on another occasion.
This Wednesday, in the Courts of La Plata and before the 12 members of a popular jury, Héctor Mensi, driver of the truck against which the car in which the four boys were traveling, gave his testimony at dawn on May 20, 2019. .
The police officers who are being tried for the Monte Massacre.
The man claimed to have heard four shots before the crash and two more shots afterward. He also recalled hearing one of the victims call for help and scream in pain.
The process for trying those allegedly responsible for the murders of Danilo Sansone (13), Gonzalo Domínguez (14), Camila López (13) and Aníbal Suárez. And the attempted murder of Rocío Quagliarello (currently 17 years old), the only survivor of that tragic night that shook the tranquility of that city located 107 kilometers from the Federal Capital.
Four provincial police agents are accused and detained as co-perpetrators: former captain Rubén Alberto García and officers Leandro Ecilape, Manuel Monreal and Mariano Ibáñez. They are accused of aggravated homicide for abuse of a weapon and for being members of security forces.
The trucker reported that after the severe impact he could see the body of one of the victims lying in the mirror of the truck’s cab (where he slept). And also that a patrol car approached and one of the policemen yelled “stay still, stay still”. After that, two more shots.
Juan Carlos, father of Danilo Sansone, at the door of the La Plata courts.
He also heard the calls for help from one of the injured teenagers.
A teacher and neighbor of Monte recalled hearing “four or five shots” that morning. She was at her house and asked her husband to call the police. “The dogs are crazy. They must have killed two or three. If you can, send a patrol to go around,” María de las Mercedes “Marita” Gogna wrote to her husband, Víctor Bearzotti, who is a taxi driver.
A bricklayer and a nurse also agreed that at midnight from May 19 to 20, the calm silence of the town was broken by the shots, the pursuit, and the impact of the Fiat against the trailer parked on the National Route 3 collector. in an access to the city. The construction worker was even able to pick up pods served the next day, in front of a store that filmed the moment the patrol passed by with an agent who was carrying half his body outside the booth, shooting.
In addition, a pizza man reconstructed important sections of the chase. That merchant saw the boys in front of the square. He watched the driver of the 147 as he asked the teenagers to help him push the Fiat and took them for a ride around town.
“These contributions serve to verify that there was no robbery or previous robbery attempt, as they wanted to present from the defense. That there was an unnecessary persecution and senseless shots,” they said close to the prosecutor Mariano Sibuet, who is in charge of the prosecution in this process.
Four Buenos Aires policemen are tried by a popular jury accused of the “Monte Massacre”. Photo Telam
The accusation seeks to verify that the boys were not involved in crimes, that the police tried to arrest them -probably- to ask them for a bribe (they had done it before, as revealed the previous day) and that for this they followed them for more than four kilometers at different places in the town.
That morning, five boys were traveling in Aníbal’s Fiat 147. They were listening to music and taking a long walk when the policemen began to chase them for no apparent reason and, according to the records of the municipality’s security cameras and expert reports, to shoot them.
The debate takes place through the jury trial mechanism and is technically directed by Judge Carolina Crispiani of the Oral Criminal Court IV of La Plata. Those 12 lay citizens (with no knowledge of criminal law) must vote after the end of the hearings to determine whether the defendants are guilty or innocent of the charges.
Until now, only witnesses provided by the prosecution have appeared. The debate ends on May 17, as reported in the Courts.
The Silver. correspondent
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