Diego Del Río, older brother of the alleged parricide of Vicente López, declared once more in the case to clarify that he has no relation to the crime of his parents and once once more complicated Martín, his younger brother and arrested for the case, by stating , among other things, that “he practiced shooting regularly”reported this Friday judicial sources.
The new statement of the eldest of the children of the victims José Enrique Del Río (74) and María Mercedes Alonso (72) was given on Thursday before two of the three prosecutors in the case, Marcela Semería and Alejandro Musso, and was produced in a spontaneously, given the witness’s need to clarify some issues raised by her brother’s defender, Mónica Chirivin, who even requested in the file that he be investigated as a suspect.
“I do not have any kind of connection with the murder of my parents,” said the 47-year-old consultant, at the beginning of his new testimony, to which Télam agreed, in which he even, He gave the prosecutors his cell phone, Motorola brand, and gave them his password so that they can test him..
One of the issues raised in the case and publicly by lawyer Chirivin, so that her client’s older brother be investigated as a suspect, was that on August 25, the day of the discovery of his parents’ bodies, in the followingnoon, He had gone to the house in the country San Diego, of Moreno, where the victims spent the weekend and where the Police later seized a series of firearms.
Diego explained that he only attended “twice and always by order of the Prosecutor’s Office and accompanied by police officers,” and that the first was that followingnoon of August 25 to verify if the firearms owned by his father were there and that ” a few days later” they returned to “seize said weapons”.
Chirivin also stated in a brief that the four witnesses who identified Martín Del Río (46) as the “hooded walker” who was filming going to and from the scene of the crime -including his brother- stated that they “hated” their client.
The prosecutors asked Diego if he had a feeling of hatred towards Martín or had it prior to the event, and he replied: “No, not at all, in fact once this happened we met three times with my brother, with the lawyer Félix Linfante. “.
“The fact that I lent him money and that he did not return it did cool things down a bit, but the truth is that if we saw each other, there was no problem,” he said, remembering what he had previously declared, that is, that his brother never finished repaying some $110,000 that he and his wife had lent him.
Contrary to what the defendant’s defense attorney said, Diego Del Río said that following Martín was arrested in the case, he went three times to his place of detention, the Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI) of San Isidro, to bring him things. such as “clothes, food and hygiene items”.
“I also wrote him two letters, I brought him a book on these visits, but later I decided not to do it anymore because I wanted to avoid media exposure,” he added.
The prosecutors took advantage of the witness to ask him other questions and one of them was if he might describe Martín’s relationship with firearms, and in this regard, he replied: “For a time he practiced shooting regularly. I remember that it was not so long ago time, and he regularly practiced shooting at the range that was in La Pampa near Migueletes, he got the taste to go shoot“.
“He was going to shoot with his weapons, but I never saw in detail what they were because, the truth is, I never liked weapons,” he added.
He also denied, as his brother stated in his inquest, that his father Enrique was an accomplice in the alleged deception of his mother due to the impossibility of moving immediately to the Chateau Libertador de Núñez building, and reiterated that “what he knew or at least he supposed” according to what his parents said was that “that day they moved, on August 24”.
On what impression he had of his brother’s attitude following the fact, he replied that he met several times with Martín to discuss administrative issues because he “had no idea regarding the business” of his parents, but he clarified: “Until the moment he was arrested I never doubted him.”
He revealed that last Wednesday he found out that one of the tenants “had brought him money the Sunday before the murder and said that Martín wanted to buy a garage on Virrey Liniers street,” although neither he nor his sister-in-law knew anything regarding this new business.
In his statement, the eldest of the brothers also authorized the prosecutors to go check the family’s cars -his father collected high-end cars-, which are parked in the garages that he commercially exploited in the Federal Capital.
The Del Río couple were found murdered – he with three bullets and she with one – on August 25 inside their car in the garage of their mansion at 1101 Melo Street, in Vicente López.
His youngest son, Martín Del Río, was arrested on September 7 as the perpetrator of the double parricide and was charged with “double homicide quadruplely qualified by the link, treachery, for criminis causa (killing to achieve impunity) and for the use of firearm”, a crime that provides for life imprisonment as the only penalty.
For the team of prosecutors, the merchant who inherited his father’s business was the one who arrived at the house on Melo Street on the followingnoon of August 24, with some excuse, convinced his parents to get into the Mercedes Benz E350 parked on the street. garage and executed them with a 9-millimeter caliber pistol from the back seat, and then simulated a robbery on the property and fled from the scene of a crime that, according to investigators, had an economic motive.
With information from Telam
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