2023-11-29 08:30:00
Martin Del Riohe alleged double parricide detained more than a year ago, had his first preliminary hearing this Tuesday for what will be the future jury trial where he will be accused of having his parents shot to death in August 2022 inside a car, in the garage of his home in Vicente López’s Buenos Aires district.
The youngest of the children of the victims José Enrique Del Río (75) and María Mercedes Alonso (72) was transferred from Unit 48 of San Martín of the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service (SPB) where he is serving his preventive prisonto the judicial building at 456 Centenario Avenue in San Isidro, where the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 7 of that judicial department operates.
Judicial sources told the agency Telam what Del Río did not say a word this Friday before Judge María Coelhowho will be the magistrate who will lead the debate before a popular jury on a date that has not yet been stipulated and that might be either in 2024 or 2025.
“He did not speak at the entire hearing, nor was he asked for his personal information.“, pointed out Telam a judicial source.
According to what might be seen following being photographed in the room and according to the sources consulted by Telam who were present at the hearing, Three days following turning 49, Del Río was seen to be thinner, with a neat haircut, his usual glasses, serious, crestfallen and with some concern on his face..
Dressed in a navy blue sweater with some thin light blue stripes, moss green pants, and ash-colored Crocs moccasins with rubber soles, Del Río entered the room handcuffed and sat down next to his lawyers private individuals, Mónica Chirivin and Gastón Leonel Salamon.
Opposite, they were sitting Marcela Semería and Martín Gómez, two of Vicente López’s three prosecutors who investigated him and brought to trial as the alleged perpetrator of a “double homicide qualified by treachery, by the link, by criminis causa (killing to achieve impunity), and by the use of a firearm.”
Along with the prosecutors was also the Historical lawyer of the Del Río family, Félix Linfantewho in this process represents as an injured individual the older brother of the accused, Diego Del Río, who, although he went to the headquarters of TOC 7, as he will testify as a witness, did not participate in the hearing nor did he meet his brother, according to what the sources.
How the trial once morest Martín Del Río continues
This Tuesday was the first of a series of preliminary hearings of a purely technical naturewhere each of the parties presents their theory of the case and in which the witnesses to be called and the evidence that must be incorporated in an oral, simplified and simple manner are refined so that each of the members of the popular jury that in the future will judge the accused.
The spokespersons explained that following an hour, Judge Coelho decided to go to a recess and set the second of the hearings for March 1 of next year.
The double crime of Vicente López
Del Río Sr. and his wife Alonso were found murdered – he with three bullets and she with one in the face-, on August 25, 2022 inside his Mercedes Benz car in the garage of his mansion at 1101 Melo Street in Vicente López.
Although the employee was the first arrested on suspicion of acting as a “delivery“, was released due to lack of evidence and on September 7 of that year, prosecutors arrested the couple’s youngest son, Martín, alias “Pato”, as the alleged perpetrator of a double patricide.
Double crime of Vicente López: Del Río accused his brother once more and his lawyers question the prosecutors
The key to the investigation was the security camera videoswhere the youngest son of the victims was identified as the alleged murderer who, according to the prosecution, between 5:33 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. the day before, August 24, committed the double homicide by executing his parents from the back seat of the car with a 9 millimeter caliber pistol.
The thing is Del Río was recognized by several witnesses as the “hooded walker.”“which can be seen moving in different images, in the direction of the victims’ home and then moving away from it, not only because of their build and physical conformation but especially because of their”way of walking“, with a defect in his left leg that he suffered from as a child, which does not allow him to follow a straight line and which led his family to nickname him “Duck.”
Other evidence that incriminates him is the discovery in the defendant’s car of his father’s remote control that opened the garage door where the bodies were found and a bag from the “Remax” real estate agency identical to the one the “hooded man” is seen carrying. ” in the videos.
In turn, his cell phone was turned on and geolocated in Núñez but had no activity during the period of time in which the walker goes and returns from that Buenos Aires neighborhood to the victims’ house.
Although it was thought that the murder weapon had been discarded – as had happened with the DVR with the images from the cameras in the victims’ house – the Bersa Mini Thunder 9 millimeter pistol used in the double crime was found in a safe in the country house of San Diego de Moreno where the victims spent their weekends and which was seized when the Police inspected it.
For prosecutors, the motive for the double patricide was economic and regarding this, they mentioned two aspects in their request: on the one hand, the frustrated real estate transaction for which the victims thought that that same day they were going to move to a luxurious apartment in the “Chateau Libertador” building in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Núñez, which Del Río Jr. was never able to specify, and on the other hand, that they were going to discover the financial mismanagement that he had had in the family businessesas he managed his parents’ garages, properties and vehicles.
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