Nayara Vit case: Expareja was in pretrial detention for alleged femicide

2023-04-14 22:42:00

He Fourth Guarantee Court of Santiago decreed preventive detention against Rodrigo del Valle, accused of the femicide of his ex-partner, the Brazilian model Nayara Marcos Vitwho died on July 7, 2021 after falling from the 12th floor of the apartment where they both lived in the Las Condes commune.

The Judge Ximena Rivera determined the maximum precautionary measure by warning that the defendant may be a danger to society and that his freedom may affect the investigation, establishing a period of 70 days as the period of the investigation.

In the first instance, it was established that the death of the 33-year-old woman was a suicide. However, the family always expressed doubts about this hypothesis, which, added to some procedures, led OS-9 to capture Del Valle on Thursday afternoon as a suspect in femicide.

According to the background of the case, Carabineros went to the building located on Las Torcazas street, immediately verifying that it was a suicide. However, prosecutor Omar Mérida ordered an investigation to begin because there were expert reports that were not carried out.

During the hearing, the Prosecutor Carolina Fuentes He explained that there were “contradictions” in Del Valle’s statements, who in his first version said that the victim jumped off the balcony after consuming alcohol, which varied.

He pointed out that the analysis of the injuries on the victim’s body showed that “they were not only the product of the fall, but also prior to it, and that they accounted for an assault.”

The persecutor indicated that “the injuries present on the corpse are incompatible with the couple’s testimony,” along with warning that “The injuries and dynamics with which the circumstances in which they develop and the behavior of the aggressor are produced are frequent characteristics of femicide behaviors.”

“We are convinced that she had no reason to make an attempt on her life,” he added, noting that those close to the model indicated that she “was in a beautiful stage of her life.”

Meanwhile, the prosecutor Francisco Lanas announced that they will request the penalty for femicide, which ranges from 15 years and 1 day to qualified life imprisonment.