2023-04-30 05:19:17
Four key writings in the case of the disappearance and alleged femicide of a 17-year-old teenager were missing for years. But, in the days before the start of the trial, they were found in a box of evidence that was in the prosecutor’s office. It was suspected that these manuscripts corresponded to the main accused of having killed and hidden the body of Daiana Garnica in 2017. After the discovery, the prosecutors asked the Court to allow them to carry out that calligraphic expert opinion that had been truncated, so the debate was delayed two days. The result was conclusive: they belonged to the defendant. This is how a revealing indication was added at the last moment once morest Darío Javier Suárez (45), who will know next week whether or not he is convicted of the femicide.
The prosecution maintained in the allegations last Friday that in order to indict Suárez, a puzzle had to be reconstructed, because due to the lack of a body “that speaks” the pieces had to be put together to interpret what happened on May 6, 2017 in Tucuman. In this way, the entire framework was closing in the footsteps of this man who was a highly trusted neighbor of the Garnica family and who worked in a brickyard.
Daiana’s cell phone was one of the relevant pieces in the file, because the last conversation between the two was there. Later, a parallel investigation in the federal jurisdiction ruled out the hypothesis that she had been handed over to a trafficking network. Another of the central blocks of this framework were these four papers that reveal an “obsession” of the defendant with the victim, according to the investigators.
In the writings there is talk of a Daiana. In one of them she asks him “to go with him to buy a gift for my mommy”, and it was precisely that same argument that she used in the last conversation they had on WhatsApp so that the young woman would leave her house. But on the paper identified in the expertise as “D” she mentions that same name, she says “my love” and assures: “I’m going to take you to my eternal place.”
“Beyond analyzing Suárez’s behavior such as deleting messages, planning the event, asking Daiana not to notify the mother, meeting with people so they can see it, we have more objective proof: they are those papers that were examined by the police. prosecution. I want to highlight the prosecutors who received the case, began to investigate and found the box that was missing and that was examined,” the plaintiff lawyer Carlos Garmendia highlighted in his allegations regarding the assistant prosecutors Gerardo Arch and Osvaldo Martínez Terán who carried out the investigation. prosecution at trial.
“On a piece of paper, he wrote the same thing that he sent Daiana on Whatsapp. In another, a kind of confession: ‘Daiana, beautiful as a child, has been like my daughter but I can’t take it anymore, my love, what do I do? I’m going to take you to my eternal place. She won’t say it, but she has written it. And a third piece of paper that might be a checklist. What do I have to do: wash the car, wash clothes, in the brickyard. This, this, this”, he listed the legible part of the list that they attributed to the accused and interpreted as a kind of list of the steps to follow following the crime.
The start of the trial was planned for last April 10, but it began two days later due to the recovery of that evidence. Criminologist Cristina del Valle Ybarra compared the pressure of the writing, the features and the inclination of the letters, among other technical issues, to determine if those manuscripts were made by the defendant. And she indeed found a match between them and a text that the suspect had subsequently written for the expertise. She thus concluded that Suárez was the author of those texts.
While Suárez’s defense questioned the chain of custody of that evidence during his final arguments. And he pointed out that “no DNA was found” of the defendant in those papers.
As determined by the investigators that Saturday, May 6, 2017, Suárez sent Daiana a message at 6:41 p.m. to ask her to accompany him to buy a gift for her mother, but asked her to delete the messages and not tell her family that I was going to be with him. The justification was that the gift was a surprise.
The young woman ignored him. She told her mother that Suárez would take her to buy the sweets that she had ordered before her for her family kiosk and left her cell phone at her house. Since Daiana did not return, they rebuked Dario and checked his phone, but he had no messages with the teenager. But later, the Garnica found the minor’s device and there they confirmed the meeting between the two.
The prosecution requested a life sentence for Suárez, while the defense requested his acquittal. Judges Rafael Macoritto, Dante Ibáñez and Diego Lammoglia will give their verdict next Tuesday.
witness cases
Daiana Garnica’s trial is not the first to take place in Tucumán without the body being found. There are two precedents in which the defendants ended up convicted of the disappearance and homicide of the victims. One is the case of the teacher Beatriz Argañaraz (45) and the other is the femicide of Milagros Avellaneda (26) and her son Benicio (2).
Beatriz disappeared in 2006 and the two ex-nuns Nélida Fernández and Susana Acosta were sentenced to 20 years in prison for the incident. According to the investigation, her defendants had summoned her to her apartment and they killed her there.
While for the murder of Milagros and her son the baby’s father was sentenced to life. This is the prisoner Roberto Rejas who obtained the maximum sentence in 2021.
In the case of Daiana, the prosecution held: “That body might not speak through expert reports, because Suárez made sure that it did not appear. In this way, what happened was buried, but that cannot guarantee their impunity.”
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