The lawyer and husband of Rocío Santa Cruz ensure that the detention of the former Miss Argentina was illegal and arbitrary

In an interview with Red Ciudadana, Eduardo Paredes gave details on the state of mind of Santa Cruz and on the approach taken with regard to the case. He questioned the actions of prosecutors Laura Álvarez and César Jiménez. In the same vein, Claudio Ferreyra, a husband of the former Miss Argentina, said that they were making presentations to the judge and felt that the procedure conducted last Friday and for which Santa Cruz was detained is "tainted of nullities ".

Eduardo Paredes in Red Ciudadana

Eduardo Paredes, lawyer of Rocío Santa Cruz, the former Miss Argentina, arrested last week after confirming that she had violated the ban on leaving the country that had weighed her since the end of the year. last year, when she was found guilty of causing the death of an accident. of transit, qualified as illegal the aforementioned detention. He stated that the conviction for the type of crime convicted with respect to his client was likely to be released without restrictions and had not spared the criticisms addressed to the judge who s'. occupied the business.

"Rocío is going well or at least should There is something that must always be separated: one thing is the duty to be, what the legislation says and another thing is the being, the real world, what what the judges are doing, so probably that detention will not be over in a few days, "said Eduardo Paredes, Rocío Santa Cruz's lawyer.

To argue this statement, he said: "It's illegal." What Jiménez (judge) did is wrong, what he did (prosecutor) María Laura Álvarez, does not fit normatively because this guy crime that is published from the outset generally admits no restriction, for example, prohibition to leave the country or city, these restrictions have one purpose: to make sure that people submit themselves to jurisdictions, that is, there is no possibility of escape. "

She also mentioned other aspects that she considered essential for the Santa Cruz case: "It's a guilty crime, she was released in 2016, this rule was established for not to leave the country, a rule that the judiciary itself has allowed to travel to Europe, then they arbitrarily changed that according to the judge in turn ".

"When the case was tried and the sentences were pronounced, the judge declared the detention unconstitutional because of the parameters of the Inter-American Court that they can not detain anyone without a final sentence, provided that this person has always been subject to the jurisdiction, it is different if someone escaped and was then arrested.At the time the appeal is filed automatically, the sentence is suspended. therefore, everything that Jiménez dictated is without effect, "said the lawyer.

It is expected that the penalty is probably reduced to a minimum or that the cause has no effect.

"Without legal support"

On the other hand, Santa Cruz's husband, Claudio Ferreyra, felt that his wife had always acted in accordance with the law and that his detention was an arbitrary measure and "without legal foundation".

He argued that the sentence that sentenced his wife in November of last year had been appealed to the Superior Court of Justice and that his detention "was not well founded". He also stated that even the defense of the accused was not informed of his arrest and that neither the prosecutor María Laura Álvarez nor the judge César Jiménez had jurisdiction over the crime imputed to him, and that the person who now has the record in hand is Judge Ricardo Balor.

When asked if he and his wife had actually left the country last December, Ferreyra did not answer and said that this should be the subject of an investigation, but said that They were lawyers and knew the judicial system, reaffirming that they "were always right".

AVD – JRC