The judge of Guarantees of Zapala, Diego Chavarría Ruizwas raffled as the third member of the court that will carry out the trial in the Fuentealba II case. Will join his peers Luis Giorgetti and Raúl Aufrancwhile Bibiana Ojeda was appointed substitute in the event that one of the magistrates must be replaced.
chavarria ruiz He is a judge in the provincial interior since 2017. Aufranc will take office on February 17 as a member of the Neuquén College of Judges, from Cutral Co, and Giorgetti He is one of the last magistrates to join the College. The three won their respective competitions in the Council of the Magistracy and received the legislative agreement.
The raffle was held this morning, by the Director of Appeal Assistance and General Coordination, Gabriela Villalobos, and the Director of the Criminal Judicial Office, Juan Guaita.
eight defendants
The eight defendants are police officers who coordinated and/or carried out the operation on April 4, 2007 in Arroyito, in which Corporal Jose Dario Poblete He shot the rear window of the Fiat 147 with his gas pistol. The teacher Carlos Fuentealba, 41, was in the back of the car that was heading towards Senillosa, since the demonstration was in retreat. He died from the impact of the projectile on his head.
The order issued by the ex-governor, Jorge Sobisch, was to prevent a roadblock from taking place, which was the protest measure that the ATEN teachers union had ordered. The president was then a candidate for president backed by Mauricio Macri.
Poblete was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008. The Fuentealba II case never got beyond the investigation stage. He had comings and goings, until in 2019 the Supreme Court of Justice ruled that a sentence should be handed down. In 2021 the case was raised trial.
Abuse of authority and cover-up
Among the defendants is Carlos Zalazar, who was the chief of police in those years, and Mario Rinzafri, who was the driver of the operation. Beside Moises and Adolfo Soto, and Jorge Garrido They are accused of abuse of authority and concealment.
The police officers Aquiles González and Julio César Lincoleo they will be tried for the aggravated cover-up of Poblete, with whom they spoke minutes following the shooting.
The charges in these seven cases will be upheld solely by the lawsuit, headed by the attorneys Marcelo Medrano and Ricardo Mendanawhich represent the daughters of Fuentealba, Camila and Ariadna, and their partner Sandra Rodríguez.
The prosecution goes for one
The only accusation in which they will be accompanied by the chief prosecutor Maximiliano Breide Obeid will be once morest the policeman, Benito Matus who is accused of weapons abuse in contest with minor injuries.
He is accused of having shot him on April 4 at Angelica Cisternwith a 12/70 shotgun, in the vicinity of the YPF service station in Arroyito, while he was in the back seat of a Ford Escort and shortly following, at kilometer 1,263, hitting a Miguel Alejandro Castelarwho was heading with his hands up towards a police cordon.
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