femicide without a body and without a lawyer bringing prisoners to justice

Stella Maris Sequeira has been missing for 4 years and 3 months. However, Justice has one certainty: was the victim of femicide. It remains to be determined where the body is. As a result, her husband, Rubén Carrazzone, is detained, who will be tried from this Wednesday by the Federal Oral Court (TOF) 2 of La Plata.

The criminal, who celebrated his 66th birthday this Monday in prison and had a great media profile as lawyer prisoner, is accused of the crimes of “double qualified homicide for having been committed on a partner and mediation of a context of gender violence and false reporting“.

The debate will begin at 10 a.m. in the courtroom on the first floor of the Federal Court of La Plata, reserved for four consecutive Wednesdays, and will take place in person with the corresponding treatment protocols for Covid-19.

The TOF 2 set is made up of judges Alejandro Daniel Esmoris, Néstor Javier Jarazo and Fernando Canero, while the prosecution will be in charge of the Attorney General of La Plata Rodolfo Marcelo Molina.

Lawyer Raquel Hermida Leyenda, representative of the victim’s only daughter, who is a private victim, explained to Telam which is a “very important judgment, because thanks to the complaint of extortion kidnapping led by Carrazzone himself when his wife had already disappeared, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation decided that this case should continue at federal headquarters. “

The lawyer said they are “very worried” because there is “four very threatened witnesses“that they will be kept by the police to testify at the trial and that she was also intimidated.

“I haven’t been able to see my children for almost a month, I can’t take the dog out, they dirtied my car, they sent me messages saying they were going to cut my legs so that I could do not. don’t come to trial, ”the lawyer said.

And he added: “I believe that Carrazzone will not be saved from a fair trialNot even that he would follow through on his threat not to let me get to La Plata. “

Meanwhile, TOF 2 in La Plata has decided to further extend the criminal’s preventive prison for six months from March 13, until September 2021.

Last April, the lawyer requested the benefit of house arrest because he was part of the risk group that should be prevented from contagion of the coronavirus, but the request was rejected by the court and a few days later, ratified by the Federal Chamber of La Plata. He has been held in Ezeiza prison since March 2018.

Sequeira, who had lived with Carrazzone for thirteen years, disappeared on December 29, 2016 from her home in the town of El Ombú 786, in Ezeiza. That day he was 60 years old.

The lawyer did not report the incident until the 31st of this month, and a day later claimed to have received an extortion call in which they demanded $ 80,000 to release her.

Carrazzone quickly went from victim to aggressor. He tried to install that his partner’s disappearance was about “a return of the Bonaerense“For one case, but it was revealed when a country named Miguel Ángel Franco confessed to making these calls. But not by his own decision, but in exchange for $ 20,000 and by order of the lawyer.

It was then determined that he had been a false complaint, tending to hinder the investigation and hide the femicide.

Franco (63), who had been a client of Carrazzone and who was accused of collaborating in extortion calls, was arrested for the alleged kidnapping, although he was ultimately fired.

Although the criminal media have always denied the acts of violence against his wife, investigators say there is enough evidence to prove that the criminal lawyer beat her.

En tanto, una testigo que declaró en la causa relató that el día previo has known desaparición, la víctima le había contado que iba a separarse del abogado y que éste se tendría que ir de su casa “con un bolsito”, como había llegado hacía a lot of years.

“I know many “ scams ” in Rubén. He’s going to pay me, because it’s not only that he cheated on me, but who he cheated with was Lourdes, ”Sequeira told a friend, referring to Lourdes Olivera, a former partner of his who owed money and with whom she was hostile.

During a search of a warehouse in the town of Lobos, Sequeira’s truck and other vehicles linked to Carrazzone were seized, although when subjected to expert reports, no trace of blood a woman was not found in any of them.

Investigators suspect that some of these vehicles may have been used to move the body, but so far this hypothesis has not been proven.

EMJ