He said that when he returned to the apartment where his friend and neighbor Agustina Fernández (19) was waiting for him, he found her on the floor, beaten and that everything was in a mess on the property. She spoke of a robbery, that past July 2. But six months following the crime, it was this same young man who was left in the sights of Justice and was arrested. Yesterday they charged him with femicide and ordered his preventive detention for six months.
Pablo Parra (37) “had an obsession with Agustina and she had a relationship with another person,” remarked the judge of Guarantees Agustina Bagniole, who accepted the statement of the prosecution that accused him as the author of the femicide.
Parra was the one who rented the apartment where Agustina was found beaten to death in a complex located at 1300 Confluencia Street in the city of Cipolletti in Rio Negro. She had arrived from La Pampa to that province months before to study medicine and lived in that same complex.
On July 2, he went to Parra’s apartment because they had agreed to have dinner together. The young man now detained had told the investigators that he left his apartment to go buy some things for dinner at a market in the area and when he returned he found Agustina lying on the floor.
The main hypothesis was that Agustina had been the victim of a robbery and had been beaten. An identikit of the suspect had even been released.
But everything changed with the results of a series of expertise. The experts found Parra’s DNA in a piece of cloth that got caught in a fence on the property, and technological expertise located it at the scene of the incident at the time the young woman was struck.
In the imputed hearing that took place yesterday, the prosecution argued that the robbery that Parra spoke of did not exist and pointed to him as the femicide.
As explained by the prosecutor Martín Pezzetta, Parra left in his car, but returned walking and entered through the back of his home through a staircase that he located in the patio, since he had left the back door open. He thus entered and attacked Agustina with blows until she was unconscious. The young woman died four days later in the hospital.
Before leaving, he messed up the house and took his and Agustina’s cell phones simulating the robbery and escaped through the same place where he entered, according to investigators.
Then he got in his car and made a series of purchases, to strengthen his alibi. He later returned and pretended to be surprised to find Agustina lying on the ground. According to the experts, it was determined that Agustina’s femicide occurred between 7:32 p.m. and 7:38 p.m. At that time, the comparisons made place Parra at the scene of the events.
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