Global Courant
“He told us that the scratches were from his jiu-jitsu practice,” was the unusual response given by Ricardo Goya, the uncle of César Sena, charged with the alleged femicide of Cecilia Strzyzowski, when trying to explain the marks that were observed on the his nephew’s neck in the days following the disappearance of the young woman from Chaco.
The days following Cecilia’s disappearance, the defendant participated in activities related to the electoral campaign of his mother Marcela Acuña, who was going to compete in the provincial elections for mayor of Resistencia, where he was seen with marks on his neck.
Upon leaving the Resistencia prosecutor’s office, Ricardo Goya and his wife Patricia Acuña, sister of César Sena’s mother, clarified that they appeared to testify as witnesses and acknowledged that “it is hard for them to believe the weight of the evidence.”
In statements to the press, Goya confirmed the marks on the defendant’s neck, attributed to “his jiu-jitsu practice”, and detailed: “He also had a scratch on his arm, I think it was the right one, and a bruise.”
César Sena and Cecilia Strzyzowski (Photos Instagram Cecilia)
When asked if they believed that version, he replied: “No, it’s that he said ‘they are going to verify that Cecilia left my house. The security cameras will verify it. There is one in front of my house.’ I did not I knew there was a camera and it seems there was. I hope the truth comes out.”
“We think that the truth is unstoppable, that it will emerge, that it always floats. For those who lie, it’s bullshit: it floats,” said Marcela Acuña’s brother-in-law, who is currently in custody for being charged with aggravated homicide as a co-author. .
After a round of statements that lasted until shortly before 10 p.m. this Friday, prosecutor Jorge Cáceres Olivera affirmed that the femicide investigation leads to the fact that the murder took place at the home of the Sena clan and that the three members of the family, Emerenciano, Marcela and César, participated in killing the young woman.
In this context, César Sena’s uncles clarified that, despite the fact that the whole family is part of the same piquetero movement, both Ricardo and Patricia affirmed that they do not have “much relationship” with the Sena.
“I am the sister, but with Marcela I do not have contact as a normal family because of the militancy task they have. I only saw them at Christmas, on birthdays or in mobilizations. She is my sister, she is my blood. If she committed a crime that pays for it,” said Patricia.
Marcela Acuña, Cesar Sena and Emerenciano Sena
In addition, the woman sought to distance herself from the accusations her family is facing: “I am César’s aunt and I have nothing to do with it. I want justice. I want that mother to have justice. I also lost a child on another occasion and I know what he feels. From here I tell him that I would like to give him a hug. I am being scolded, they call me a murderer. The colleagues who know me know that it is a lie”.
Counting the hours before his nephew’s arrest, Ricardo Goya recounted: “At the time of the raids, César came to my house. We asked him three times if he had anything to do with what happened to Cecilia and he denied it to us. three times. I put it on the kid’s face and said, “What happened? If we have to know something, tell us why we are the ones who are in the mud and we will continue to be with you.” The truth is that he told me ‘no, no, no’. We believed him, because on the other hand he was willing to submit to the law.”
“We questioned him three times. We told him to say what he knew because the family was risking his life with him. We asked him to tell us what had happened and he denied us three times that there had been any act of violence,” he explained.
When leaving the judicial building, the journalist Ricardo Goya pointed out against the press: “We spontaneously showed up to testify in this case because there are so many versions and there are media that are disseminating hate speech. They are generating an impressive situation in our lives and in the of a lot of people who are involved.
“They are generating hate speech and we are totally against it. We want them to stop with it and separate the cause of the movement. We are not part of the movement, we are part of Marcela’s family, we are not the ‘Sena Clan’. Cut it with about the ‘Sena Clan’ because they are creating an impressive problem for us,” he demanded.
César Sena and his mother, Marcela Acuña (Photo Facebook)
In addition, he assured that they received death threats and that his wife will receive an anti-panic button for prevention. “We are denouncing the inaction of the Human Rights Secretariat in this regard, because we are asking it for assistance as victims of the treatment of the media,” she said.
Goya assured that they do not know “anything” about what happened with Cecilia and argued: “What we did was put César in law. When we found out that the capture had come out, we protected him so that he had no other destination than to appear before Justice.”
“We assumed that this was all a political setup because they were candidates, because they were campaigning,” Goya acknowledged. “I said that he could have left with another person. I said it and I was wrong, because apart from that we did not have any data,” he admitted to the press.
Asked if they believe that César could have been capable of killing Cecilia, he responded emphatically: “No, we are astonished, astonished, and extremely shocked. Imagine a kidnapping followed by death, it’s crazy. This is what happened to our relatives during the process. It’s inconceivable that we can bear it, it breaks our souls.”
“Today it is hard for us to believe the weight of the evidence that is apparently emerging. We are with the victim’s family, for us it is the only one that exists and the one that must be kept in focus. We did not speak with Cecilia’s mother, but I wish we could. I had to stop Patricia because she wanted to come to the march,” he concluded.
