They will lower the pain to a man who stabbed his ex because when he attacked him, he said you will remember me.

He was convicted for attempted femicide to 12 years in prison but now the Superior Court of Justice in the province has reduced the qualifier of criminal offense to the qualifier "serious injury aggravated by gender-based violence". He maintains that he had no intention of killing and justified him by the phrase that he said in the attacker.

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The resolution, signed by the judges Miguel Donnet, Mario Vivas and Alejandro Panizzi, revoked the conviction of attempted femicide and referred the case to the courts to make a new sentencing hearing. With the new qualification, the man could be sentenced between 3 and 10 years.

The judges followed the arguments of public defender Custodio Gómez, who argued that the stabbings were on Gallego's legs, which "indicated that her intention was to wound her, not to kill her""

What strikes in this decision, it is the interpretation by the judges of a sentence pronounced by the aggressor at the time of the attack.. According to the record, Petrillán told the woman "You will remember me" . The sentence supposed that the man "he did not advance until he took his life, "because he could not" remember "if she was dead.

Even more curious is that for the court, it was also an indication that he did not intend to kill anyone who "There would be in the play a minor, whom Petrillán saw, who could signal the attack or ask for help."

According to the record, Petrillán allegedly stabbed five times in the door that night "causing serious injury and loss of blood" to his ex. The aggression was in front of their children. When the woman's mother arrived, she had lost a lot of blood.

The conviction of Petrillán for attempted femicide was the first to be pronounced for this qualification in the city of Puerto Madryn and had been confirmed by the criminal chamber.