A young man who murdered his boyfriend in Argentina is sentenced to life imprisonment

An Argentinian court sentenced 19-year-old Nahir Galarza to life imprisonment for killing his boyfriend Fernando Pastorizzo last December. years, with the gun of his father police, a case that has had a great media impact in the southern country.

The Gualeguaychú City Court, in Entre Ríos province, unanimously considered Galarza a "criminal perpetrator" responsible for the crime of homicide because he was a person with whom he had been in a couple for four years, despite the fact that she had alleged that her relationship was "occasional".

In addition, he extended the young woman's pre-trial detention.

Upon hearing the sentence, the court held that on December 29, the accused had used a firearm to "undermine" Pastorizzo's life.

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Galarza first shot him in the back "at close range" while they were traveling on a motorcycle and later mortally wounded "on the ground, shot again on him.

" two shots were by no means accidental or involuntary ", but" intentional ", so, for the court, the defense hypothesis is" destroyed ", which argued that the shooting was accidentally produced.

In addition, the decision considers that it could not be proved that Galarza had been a victim of gender-based violence, as alleged by his defense, so "there is no element who claims punishment does not keep proportionality, "said the court.

The young woman has been in custody since early January, after confessing to have killed Pastorizzo with the arms of his father.