2024-01-15 10:57:39
“Mom, they killed Juan!” The dramatic message woke Nieves up in the early morning of August 25, 2018. The woman stood up, startled. For a second she thought it was a nightmare. She mightn’t believe what her daughter told her. But the message was as real as the agony her son had suffered, less than ten blocks from her house following being shot in the back. The bullet hit the head of the defenseless young man and killed him.
“I don’t know how I dressed and went out,” remembers Nieves Llancanao, Juan’s mother. His son had been murdered on the corner of Sobral and Sarmiento. They were a short distance. But that desperate walk seemed eternal for Nieves, who felt like her heart was exploding. Five years and five months later, a photograph of Juan occupies a central place on one of the walls of his mother’s home. The young man hugs his two little daughters.
Nieves looks tenderly at the photo and smiles as she remembers anecdotes regarding her son. “He was always happy, he came and took me for a walk. “Little thing that broke in the house, little thing that he fixed”, says his mother. “Sometimes I think that Juan was going to have a short life because he was too happy for this world,” reflects her mother.
On December 21, the judges of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Juan Carlos Maqueda and Ricardo Lorenzetti They rejected a complaint filed by the defense of Rubén Darío Millalonco.
The country’s highest court rejected it due to formal defects. With that resolution they left standing the ruling of the Appeal Court (TI) of Río Negro, that at the beginning of June 2019 annulled the ruling of the Bariloche court, which tried and acquitted Millalonco with the benefit of the doubt.
Sometimes I think that Juan was going to have a short life because he was too happy for this world (…) I just want Justice so that he can rest in peace
Nieves Llancanao, mother of Juan, the 26-year-old man murdered in 2018.
By annulling the acquittal sentence that judges Marcos Burgos, Gregor Joos and Juan Martín Arroyo issued on April 1, 2019; The TI ordered a new trial with a court made up of other magistrates. The date will be defined by the Bariloche Judicial Office.
Nieves found out a few days ago. She lives on Elguea Street, one block from the municipal cemetery. She so she headed towards that place. “I went to tell Juan,” she says. She says that she frequently visits her son’s grave. “I go and talk to him, I tell him things, that his girls are big, I play him music from the group Granizado by Ingeniero Jacobacci that he liked so much”, Explain. “I miss him so much!” she says.
He remembers that when the judges acquitted Millalonco he thought that divine justice would take care of it. He doesn’t have a good memory of that whole process. He describes it as a stage marked by the coldness of judicial officials. “I felt like mine was one more”resume.
She says that what outraged her was that they acquitted him “since the experts said that (the accused) had traces of gunpowder on his hands.” Even today it is difficult for him to understand that they have not taken that evidence into account. The TI did value it when it annulled the acquittal sentence.
Ask Río Negro what the new trial will be like. “I just want Justice so that Juan rests in peace,” states.
“These sunny days, Juan came to pick me up in his car and told me: Mom, let’s go to the country, let’s get out of the city.”, account. “He always accompanied me shopping,” she points out.
Nieves knows how to put his shoulder to life. She had eight children (four boys and four girls). She separated from the boys’ father at a young age and raised them through pure courage and sacrifice. They were hard years. But she feels proud because they pulled through.
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