Global Courant 2023-04-26 16:53:18
They ordered it at the trial where the two policemen who shot and killed the 17-year-old boy were sentenced to life life.
A new investigation into the crime of Valentino Blas Correas, the 17-year-old boy murdered by the Police in August 2020 in Córdoba, will begin by the Investigation Prosecutor’s Office and Justice will try to determine the responsibilities of a former Security Minister, his secretary and two authorities of the force, including the current chief.
Prosecutor José Mana was designated by lottery to face the investigation requested by the judges of the Eighth Crime Chamber during the trial that ended last month and which determined the life sentences for the two police officers who shot at the car in which he was traveling. the victim, and nine other colleagues for cover-up and false testimony.
The former Security Minister Alfonso Mosquera will be investigated in this new case; his secretary at the time, Lucas Mezzano; former commissioner Gonzalo Cumplido and the current police chief, Liliana Zárate Belletti, who was head of Human Resources for the force at that time.
Soledad Laciar, mother of Blas Correas. Photo Lucia Merle.
Prosecutor Mana was the one who investigated the actions of the police officers who fired at the Fiat Argo in which Blas was driving with four friends at dawn on August 6, 2020.
In the first judicial case that was opened for this fact, the trial that resulted in the decision, unanimously, to sentence to life imprisonment for “qualified homicide” the first corporals Lucas Gómez (37) and Javier Alarcón (35 ), to whom they also attributed the attempted murder of the victim’s friends.
Liliana Zárate Belletti, chief of the Córdoba Police. Photo: capture TV
In turn, the trial court sentenced nine other police officers to between two and a half years and almost five years in prison for different responsibilities related to the main act, such as “cover-up, false testimony and omission of the duties of a public official”. .
He also acquitted the remaining two agents who had come accused to the debate.
According to Télam, there is another case in which the responsibility of three employees of the Aconcagua Clinic is being investigated, who, according to the Justice, refused to care for the young man when he was still alive, a file that has already been sent to trial and whose defendants They face charges for alleged abandonment of person.
A bullet hole in the rear window of the Fiat in which the young man was traveling.
The case
The event occurred at dawn on August 6, 2020, when Juan Cruz Camerano Echevarría (20) was driving a white Fiat Argo, along with four friends and schoolmates: Valentín Blas Correas, Camila Toci, Cristóbal Bocco Camerano and Mateo Natali, now of legal age but who at the time of the event were 17 years old.
When they were driving in the area of Avenida Vélez Sarsfield and Romagosa, in the Colinas neighborhood in the south of the capital, a prevention police control had been set up where the officers signaled to the driver to slow down, but when he approached the security post he decided accelerate and continued walking.
The friends of Blas Correas who were with the boy in the shot car, along with the victim’s mother. Photo The Voice
First Corporal Gómez, “with the intention of killing them,” fired four shots with his service weapon at the car, while his partner, First Corporal Alarcón, “in tacit agreement (with Gómez) and contributing to the common plan to kill the occupants of the vehicle”, also fired two shots “knowing that there was no legal justification for it”.
The experts determined that one of the four shots fired by Petty Officer Gómez hit Correas’ back, which caused his death.
The other occupants were not injured, although one of the shots pierced the headrest and the hood of the adolescent Bocco Camerano, millimeters from his skull.
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