They accuse a soldier of strangling an Argentine journalist in Spain – 22/04/2019

In August 2016, Lorena Mazzeo was found dead in her apartment in Puerto del Rosario, in the Spanish province of Las Palmas. The experts determined that this young Argentine journalist had been strangled. Instead, there were no sheets and many personal items. Two months later, they arrested a young soldier with whom he was in a relationship. On Monday, the lawsuit against her begins: she is accused of the crime and could be sentenced to a maximum penalty of 21 years in prison. "I hope it would rot in jail," said the victim's 34-year-old family.

The trial will take place before a popular jury. The defendant – named Felix, his last name has not been revealed – is 30 years old. The prosecutor's office of Arrecife of Lanzarote-Puerto del Rosario asks 21 years in prison -20 for murder and 18 months for theft of several items. Meanwhile, the defense asked for acquittal.

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The events that were judged took place in October 2016, when the girl was found dead at her home in Puerto del Rosario, where firefighters found her body in the bathtub. with the shower cord on the neck and without other outward signs of violence.

The arrest of the alleged murderer, a young man born in Valladolid, neighbor of the city of Aldeamayor San Martín and who was then stationed in the military regiment Soria 9, in Puerto del Rosario, took place two months after the events, the investigators found no violence at home or in the body of the woman.

Of course, researchers found that cell phones, iPad, leaves, house keys and computer router cables had all been cut.

Faced with this situation, the agents were able to decipher the calls and messages from the journalist's mobile phone, which enabled them to determine that the last person accompanying him was the accused. This prompted the national police to control, for a time, the army, to obtain new information and to stop it.

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Lorena was from Santiago, but she had settled in Spain. In the days leading up to the trial, her family forcefully demanded justice. In a dialogue with the Spanish media, his sister asked the murderer to "break up in prison". He asked for exemplary punishment so that he "does not commit another crime and that another family does not suffer from the intense pain we endure, the murderers do not change or re-enter". In addition, he added to the newspaper La Provincia de Las Palmas that "it is a pity that in Spain there is no sentence of life imprisonment, these murderers can not not go back to the street ".

The prosecution describes the facts of the murder and sentences the accused to a 20-year prison sentence, in addition to a robbery for which he is sentenced to an additional 18-month sentence . But the defense lawyer, Julián de Martín Muñoz, asks, as he explained in statements to the agency Europa Press, the free acquittal of the young Valladolid, since 39. he claims that the woman's death was due to an "unfortunate accident" during the practice of a badual game that "has become uncontrollable".

The defense, as stated by the accused himself before the judge of the first instance court and Instruction No. 6 of Puerto del Rosario, explains that the two young men had bad at his home. in this city and practiced a "badual game".

"It was she who rolled the hose of the shower head in the neck and had similar badual relations, while running the water", while asking the prisoner to support, as stated in his statement, the young person Valladolid. Seconds later, the young Argentinian died, according to this version.

Source: DPA

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