A crime without responsibility | For Judge Lleral, S …

Federal Judge Gustavo Lleral ordered the closure of the investigation into the disappearance and death of Santiago Maldonado on the grounds that his death was due to a "sum of incidents" and that "no one was criminally responsible for his death ". The magistrate also ordered the acquittal of Constable Emmanuel Echazú, the only accused in the case of the death of Maldonado after the repression of the gendarmerie within the community of Pu Lof in Resistencia de Cushamen. The complaint of the APDH has already announced that she would appeal the decision.

For Lleral, the death of Santiago is not committed, even if he admits himself that he died "fleeing". "The facts presented in this case do not constitute a crime.Nobody has forced the disappearance of Santiago.According to the evidence gathered, no one has been identified as being the only one. author of this criminal hypothesis.Nobody was criminally responsible for his death, "said the sentence of 263 pages.

In his mention of the repression that took place on Highway 40, he only stated that the "procedure of police release by the police" was proven. "After the confrontation with the demonstrators who developed this measure, he went to the interior of the property occupied by the so-called Pu Lof Resistance Cushamen, located on the edge of this national highway" , he added without questioning the unauthorized entry into the community by being part of the gendarmerie. Even when he explained how the operation was deployed on the road, he stated that it was "about twenty people who would have been hooded, armed with sticks and slings of the type prevented a "normal traffic on this road".

In recounting how he believes that Santiago's death was committed, the judge speaks in terms of "truth". "The truth was simple, without fascination, Santiago was where they saw him for the last time, the only one, without anyone noticing, sank," said the magistrate. . In a short story, he explained that it was a "recapitulation of incidents" that ended the life of the teenager.

"The desperation, adrenaline and excitement naturally caused by the flight, the depth of the well, the thick branches and the roots crossed at the bottom; Cold and icy water moistened his clothes and his clothes. shoes until he reached his body, this amount of incidents contributed to his fall and his inability to float, to not being able to go out for a breath of fresh air. convergence of these simple and natural realities, inevitable at this precise and fateful moment of loneliness, its essential vital functions have been paralyzed ", indicates a fragment of the sentence. Then Lleral says, "The truth is that."

The decision ensures that it was possible to "discover the truth about the disappearance and death of Maldonado" and targets all those who have claimed justice with a different version of theirs. The judge spoke of some attempts to "present facts in an absurd way different from their essence". "Refusing to see the reality, it is materializing the absurd and living in the lie," he insisted to support his position.

On August 17, prefectura divers found the body of Santaigo floating in an area of ​​the Chubut River revised six times before. The forensic expertise, some of which were implicated by the lawsuit, only indicated that he had drowned. Yesterday, it was accurately reported that Santiago's expert report of the DNI in Santiago had shown that it had remained under water for 90 days, which would indicate that the body was also in the Chubut River during this period. This badysis was challenged by the family as soon as it was ordered as nil, regardless of the outcome. Just a day after the result that reinforces the official version, Lleral's decision was made.