During a shortened trial, Fausto Jones Huala was sentenced to six months of suspended imprisonment and was released on bail.

It was a judicial negotiation signed by the most absolute l & # 39; hermetic between the prosecutor of the case Rafael Nahuel, Sylvia Littleand the lawyer Matías Scharer. Fausto Jones Huala, tried last January for crimes of "resistance to the authority aggravated for having been committed by an armed force" and for "usurpation" of the property of Villa Mascardi, He was released after being sentenced to six months in prison after an abbreviated trial.

The younger brother of Facundo Jones Huala, who remained on the run for 10 months, appeared Thursday in court and went to the Federal Court of Bariloche in exchange for the benefit of this procedure. see reduced sentence of his sentence. He thus avoided the lengthy judicial process of having to prosecute and finally reach the oral trial.

This morning, the federal judge of Zapala, Silvina Domínguez, approved the agreement between Lyttle prosecutor and his defender. Earlier, Jones Huala, 25, had acknowledged his guilt for crimes that had officially charged him on Jan. 9, the Bariloche Federal Judge, Leonidas Moldes, and committed to a series of rules of conduct imposed by the magistrate.

In case of abridged trial, as stipulated in the Code of Criminal Procedure, another magistrate, different from the first instance, must examine and approve the contract at a hearing.

Fausto Jones Huala is the Mapuche activist who, with his partner Lautaro Gonzálezstill on the run and with an international arrest warrant, he laid down Rafael Nahuel's lifeless body at Villa Mascardi on November 25, 2017, after an armed clash with an Albatros group patrol.

A 22-year-old Mapuche, Rafita, was killed by a 9-mm bullet fired by one of the weapons worn by the five prefects during his patrols on the expelled property owned by national parks. irrefutably determine who hit the murder weapon.

In this case, where Five Albatrosses were prosecuted for homicide worse With respect to the use of excess firearms in self-defense, the decision now appealing, there could be no indisputable evidence that the Mapuches had fired with firearms. This despite the remains of gunpowder found in the hands of Jones Huala and his partner Gonzalez.

At the Ministry of Security, far from being irritated, they accepted with the resolution of this particular case. "It is better that Fausto Jones Huala be right and we think that this step helps to move the process forward, so that it can be proved that the prefects have repelled an armed aggression of the Mapuches", they emphasized in this portfolio.

Judicial sources related to the Mapuche conflict in Patagonia have emerged Infobae that & # 39; it "procedural shortcut" It serves to reduce the decibels of the indigenous conflict through a negotiated dialogue with the imposition of rules that "will be later verified if they are met".

Meanwhile, the Mapuche community Lafken Winkul Mapu continues to occupy the six-hectare property that boasts the national parks of Villa Mascardi, 30 km from Bariloche.

The minor of the Huala, in as much, is imputed in another cause, by injuries and damages against cash and patrols of the police of the security of the airport in Lof of Cushamen the 17 of October 2017, when the body of Santiago Maldonado was found River Chubut.