Congressional crime: the assumption of "homicide for pleasure" takes strength

Justice will now investigate the alleged perpetrator of the double criminality of Congress and two other defendants, while investigating whether MP Héctor Olivares and his adviser Miguel Yadón were randomly selected victims as a moving target in the conflict. context of a murder committed "for pleasure" ", the sources of investigation have informed.

The three detainees who will be investigated today at the National Criminal and Correctional Court 16, on the seventh floor of the courthouse, are Juan Jesús Fernández (42), owner of the car Volkswagen Vento at the origin of the attack; his uncle Miguel Navarro Fernández (55 years) and the cousin of the first and son of the second, Juan José Navarro Cádiz (25 years), accused of being the main perpetrator of the act.

Fernandez will be the first to declare himself during the morning and, in the afternoon, Navarro will be father and son, according to spokesmen.

For Navarro Cádiz, this will be the first time that he will give his version of the events because Saturday morning, after being extradited from Uruguay, he refused to testify.

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Twelve days after the start of the investigation, Judge Mariano Iturralde and Prosecutor Estela Andrades have not yet found a motive, nor any evidence linking the victims to the seven accused.

Therefore, the statement of Navarro Cádiz could be essential to find an explanation, because his cousin Fernandez, present at the time of the event, said that after a night of alcohol consumption this young man , who appeared to be drugged, he pulled out the gun and shot out of nowhere after talking about his couple problems.

His lawyer, Ramón Arigós, who also badumed the defense of the father of the alleged gunman, said last week that according to the version he allegedly told the accused's environment, the shots of fire would aim at a trash basket and the victims crossed in the firing line, although their defense did not advance what will declare today.

The surveys do not rule out that it is an "absurd and meaningless" double crime stemming from new data. Some conclusions have emerged in recent days and profiles that have begun to be drawn on the accused.

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"It is possible that they went to the square to try this sophisticated laser weapon and, although it sounds crazy, they randomly selected moving targets the sub-advisor and his advisor to kill just for pleasure, "he said. source of the case.

If this badumption is reinforced, in addition to "treason" and "premeditated competition of two or more persons", they could be charged as the third aggravating circumstance of a "homicide for pleasure", with a penalty of lifetime sentence.

This is a figure referred to in the fourth paragraph. Article 80 of the Penal Code, a rare but, for example, was used in 2006 to prosecute the so-called "Belgrano serial shooter", Martín Ríos, later declared unjust at the end of two trials .

Fernández and Navarro Cádiz are the two most committed defendants, since they were filmed on 6 May at 6:50 am at the scene of the crime, while the crime came out of the car and fled, l & # 39; 39, one on board and the other on foot, after which the deputy Olivares (61 years) is hit by one of the bullets and his counselor Yadón (58 years) by three.

But Iturralde and Andrades suspect that Navarro Fernández, arrested with his nephew "Mohamed" Fernández in Concepción del Uruguay, could also have been inside Vento at the time of the attack, while he was filmed getting out of the car after leaving it in the garage. from the rue Bartolomé Miter 1444.

Besides Fernández and the father and son of Navarro, Estefanía Fernández Cano (24), Luis "Caraco" Cano (65), Rafael Cano Carmona (50) and Castro Iglesias Montoya (58), alias "El Brasilero", are also arrested. whose procedural situations could be defined next Friday.