The Supreme Court of Justice of Santa Fe ordered to change the sentence to 21 years and six months in prison for Manuel Mansilla for the femicide of his girlfriend, the young woman from Santa Fe Chiara Paez whose crime gave birth to the “Ni Una Menos” movement.
The Court’s ruling, which was pronounced on December 27 last but was made known this Friday, establishes that a sanction corresponding to attempted murder is applicable to the case, whose penal scale ranges from 10 to 15 years.
The highest court in Santa Fe ordered that Mansilla be tried once more by a court of Justice for Minors.
According to judicial spokesmen, Mansilla – who was 17 years old at the time of committing the femicide of Páez – might access the benefit of temporary releases in a short time, considering that he is regarding to serve half of his sentence.
The reaction of Chiara Páez’s mother
Verónica Camargo, Chiara’s mother, told the Télam agency that she found out regarding the ruling from comments received last night and today by the press and noted:
“I am outraged that the Court has not notified me” of its resolution.
In relation to the content of the ruling, which emphasizes Mansilla’s status as a minor at the time of the incident and the international standards that establish different treatment for children in relation to adults,
Camargo said that “the only girl was Chiara”, who was 15 years old when she was killed.
“A child does not act with the coldness that Mansilla acted, with the atrocities and aberrations that they did to Chiari,” said the woman.
In addition, he highlighted “the coldness of calling me to tell me that Chiara had not returned home, when he had just killed her” and added: “That’s not a child.”