Pablo Parra, the owner of the apartment where Agustina Fernández was attacked, He was arrested this morning for the femicide of the Pampas student. Prosecutor Martín Pezzetta gathered with great secrecy the evidence that compromised him and cornered him following six months of investigation. The formulation of charges will be made in the next few hours and if the indictment advances, he will be tried in a jury trial.
RIO NEGRO accessed one of the key data for the radical turn that the cause took: the DNA of Pablo Parra. They found traces in a piece of clothing that was flaming on the fence in the patio of his home. That clue was decisive for the prosecutor to set his eyes on him, but he was not the only one.
“Scientific evidence locates the suspect at the scene,” was the brief response from sources close to the investigation. Wiretaps, forensic analysis on some cell phones and social media accounts, and numerous DNAs were part of the patient path taken not only by the prosecutor but also by the exclusive police commission.
The same day that the former Minister of Economy Martín Guzmán resigned and that the country was experiencing a skyrocketing dollar, Agustina Fernández stayed in Pablo Parra’s apartment, in a complex on Confluencia street at 1300 Cipolletti.
She lived on the same property, but as it was later learned, she had become friends with Parra, a 24-year-old oil worker. He lent her the washing machine and offered her company and support. The 19-year-old victim had arrived from La Pampa in March to study medicine at the University of Comahue.
It was later revealed that she was in an incipient relationship with another young man, although suspicion always flew over Parra’s true intentions. This will also be an aspect that the accusers will take to refer to the motivation.
it was not a robbery
On Saturday, July 2 in the followingnoon, The now detainee left Agustina alone in her apartment and went to buy ice cream. In the middle of it, she declared that she passed by her father’s house. She was absent for two hours and under these circumstances someone entered the building and savagely attacked her. He died in hospital that same week following it was confirmed that he had no brain activity.
Parra reported a robbery. Specifically, he argued that they took dollars in the middle of the currency run. He did not openly admit it, but in a radio interview he slipped that he bought and sold US banknotes at the request of some friends and acquaintances.
The investigations followed the theory of the robbery, although mishandling of the scene of the event was later denounced by the Criminalistics office of the Río Negro Police in charge of the Minister of Security Betiana Minor. “The department was a catwalk”, confirmed the sources while acknowledging the presence of people strange to the investigation but close to the provincial government.
DNA tests
After that, the identikit of a possible suspect was prepared, there was a reward, a detainee who looked alike and a dozen DNA comparisons between those found at the scene of the crime and criminal profiles (mostly male prisoners) who might have committed such a savage attack.
The investigation even foundered with the presence of a psychic who approached the victim’s own family and who had been declared not guilty in a case derived from the disappearance of the girl Sofia Herrera in the south of the country.
Prosecutor Pezzetta felt firsthand the pressure to solve the case. There is no place in the history of cipoleño justice to leave the femicide of another young woman unpunished. There were bids for interests, power struggles, internal police and judicial. Much confusion in official communication. But the representative of the Public Ministry continued to work in silence. At times alone, although sometimes he asked for advice.
New DNA evidence, a piece of Parra’s clothing in a key location, another DNA. Alibis that were falling. The young oilman is in custody today. The hearing for the formulation of charges will be held once a defender is appointed before the guarantee judge Agustina Bagniole.
The prosecution goes for the charge of femicide, the request for preventive detention and the trial by jury trial. If the indictment advances, it will be the second jury trial scheduled for next year. Both for crimes of femicide, the other is that of Patricia Rendon de Catriel.
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