2023-12-28 12:37:38
The trial for the feminicide of Agustina Fernández ended with the evidence offering stage. The next stage, the jury trial, will be on February 14. Juan Manuel Coto, Pablo Parra’s defense lawyer spoke with RÍO NEGRO RADIO and assured that what happened That day it was a “planned robbery.”
He July 2 of last year Agustina Fernández, the young student who came to Cipolletti to study medicine at the Faculty of Medical Sciences She was savagely attacked in an apartment in the complex where she lived. Three days later she died at the Cipolletti hospital, doctors confirmed that she was brain dead.
More than a year and a half has passed since that day and finally in February the long-awaited jury trial will begin, following the accusation control hearing. Juan Manuel Coto, Pablo Parra’s defense lawyer, recounted in BLACK RIVER RADIO how this process was and assured that the defense will continue to maintain the theory that what happened that day in July.
«We had control of the accusation in a nine-block hearing. What we did was review a series of witnesses, documents and evidence that the prosecution and we collected during the investigation. “There we discussed what will go to trial and what not,” he said. Coto on the last hearing.
The defense maintains that what happened the day Agustina suffered the attack was a robbery. «A male person, different from Pablo Parra, entered to carry out a planned robbery. But he overlooked a very important detail, the relationship that Pablo Parra had with his neighbor, Agustina Fernández. Because that was what made it easier for Agustina to be in Pablo Parra’s apartment,” he said.
In addition, he assured that the young woman tried to defend herself, causing injuries to her attacker. “Agustina injured the person who entered to steal, that is why she has DNA from a person under her nails that to this day the investigation might not determine who it is,” he said.
Juan Manuel Coto also maintained that they had broken into that apartment repeatedly and in a similar manner. “We maintain that it was not Pablo Parra, the person who entered did so to steal and met Agustina,” he said.
Femicide of Agustina Fernández in Cipolletti: What is the prosecution’s theory
According to prosecution theory, The accused Pablo Parra, on July 2, left the apartment where he lived with the intention of attacking the young woman. He had everything planned to commit the femicide, he even made sure that the young woman was in his apartment, a space of his knowledge and control.
To make sure, he invited her to dinner the same day the crime occurred; He waited for her outside the complex and told her to go to her apartment. He left her alone, and minutes later she returned, entering through the back door and attacked Agustina. Not satisfied, with the young woman already on his feet, he continued hitting her.
Once the crime has been committed, Parra left the place, messed up a section of the room to simulate a robbery, and He took his cell phone and Agustina’s. Also, he took the young woman’s keys.
He left the apartment through the same place he entered and went to his vehicle. To support his alibi, she went shopping at an ice cream parlor and a grocery store, made the payments with her card and returned to his apartment. When he found the young woman lying on the ground, he feigned surprise and went to his neighbor’s apartment to call the police stating that he had been robbed and that Agustina had been injured.
This is the theory that the prosecution will seek to support in the coming months and for which they charged him and ordered preventive detention. As they explained, there is strong evidence that incriminates Parra at the crime scene.
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