“The fucking mother, I couldn’t catch her”, the lament

Robert Collins

Global Courant 2023-05-18 00:18:59

“I couldn’t grab the fucking mother. The parrot shell, I told you to come”, the words are by Francisco Sáenz Valiente (52) and correspond to the moment in which Emmily Rodrigues (26) falls from the balcony of her apartment in Withdrawal. He speaks to Juliana, the other woman who was with them during the episode that ended with the young Brazilian dead. The recording, which Clarín accessed, is the second call to 911 that the businessman made to ask for help.

Sáenz Valiente’s lawyer, Rafael Cúneo Libarona, said that the audio was incorporated into the case. As he explained, his client’s phone “is turned on and thrown on the floor and there the screams are heard where Sáenz Valiente says ‘he escaped me, he escaped me, he threw himself'”.

Cúneo Libarona released the audio during the visual inspection made by the judges of the Crime Chamber to the department of Libertad 1542. The magistrates must define the future of the case in which it is investigated whether Emmily’s death was a femicide or a suicide. The case occurred on the morning of March 30.

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The operation started after 10 a.m. and also included the ground floor, the patio of the lung where the victim fell and common areas of the building.

Participating in the inspection were judges Magdalena Laíño, Ricardo Matías Pinto and Ignacio Rodríguez Varela, members of Chamber 6 of the National Criminal and Correctional Appeals Chamber, the plaintiff attorney representing the victim’s parents, Ignacio Trimarco, and the private defender of the accused businessman, Rafael Cúneo Libarona.

“It was very useful and I highlight the work of the chambermaids for having taken the time to come to inspect the scene in a case as delicate as this one,” Trimarco told Télam at the end of the procedure.

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