2023-12-05 03:15:00
A volunteer soldier from Zapala was accused of abusing a woman, who had been his partner, and of spraying fuel on another woman who came out to defend her and trying to set her on fire. They accused him of attempted femicide and requested his preventive detention, but the Guarantees judge who intervened decided to give him house arrest. due to the prison crisis and lack of space in police stations.
According to the provisional investigation, the incident occurred last Saturday around 7 in the morning in a bowling alley in Zapala.
According to the prosecutor in the case Laura Pizzipaulo, the accused suddenly grabbed a woman who had been his partner, grabbed her face by force and He kissed her, biting her lip..
Then, He reproached her for dancing with a partner, an Army non-commissioned officer. The woman tried to leave her, but the accused grabbed her hand and He pushed her once morest a table, causing her to hit in the rib area.
The defense of a friend
Faced with this situation, the victim took refuge in the bathroom of the bowling alley with two companions. One of them went to accuse her accused of attacking her and, following he began to insult her, He called police personnel who were guarding the place. The soldier was expelled from the premises.
Two hours later, around 9 o’clock and already on the street, near the municipal headquarters of Zapala, the accused crossed paths with this woman who had reproached him for attacking his ex-partner.
The fuel canister
According to the prosecution, the accused was carrying a can of gasoline, began to insult the woman who was accompanied by other people and He doused her with fuel. She took a lighter and started telling him I was going to throw it at her to set her on fire.
The people who passed by the place they managed to get in the way to stop the accused and took the woman away.
The soldier, 20 years old, gave another version. He said that he was walking with the gas can when He was attacked by those who had been at the bowling alley. His defender said that the sequence was recorded on a surveillance camera.
The crime attributed to him by the prosecutor of the Pizzipaulo case and the legal assistant Margarita Ferreyra was simple sexual abuse in ideal competition with minor injuries, both aggravated for being committed once morest an ex-partner and with gender violence, in real competition with attempted femicide.
House arrest due to the crisis in prisons
As a measure of coercion, they asked that he remain detained with preventive detention for a period of 30 days because there is a risk to the integrity of the victims.
The guarantee judge Leticia Lorenzo, who directed the hearing, ordered the house arrest for 30 days, arguing that there is no availability at the police station in order to carry out the arrest. Before, he consulted the prosecutor’s office, which admitted that there is no room for more people in the cells.
Prisons throughout the province remain closed because their capacity is overflowing, and the effect is felt in police stations where there is no space either.
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