2023-10-25 20:01:31
In 2016, Matías Mercanti and Martina Sepúlveda, two children, died in a spa complex in San Martín de los Andes, in the Lanín National Park. The tragedy occurred following a 40-meter tree fell. There are four park rangers charged in the case. The trial will begin on Monday in Neuquén.
The tragedy occurred on January 1, 2016In addition to the death of Mercanti (7 years old) and Sepúlveda (3 years old), two other adults also suffered injuries.
The accident occurred when a pellín oak fell regarding 40 meters with barefoot roots on the beach of the Catritre spa. According to the investigation, it was following a gust of wind broke the bare roots.
Public Health, Firefighters and SIEN ambulances worked at the scene. In addition, tools had to be used to free the victims.
The park rangers are accused of the incident. Matthias Ivan Oak, Diego Louis Lucca, John Ignatius Jones and Maria Mercedes Hileman. They are accused of culpable homicide aggravated by the number of victims and serious negligent injuries. Also, for failure to comply with the duties of a public official due to his alleged negligent conduct in not warning that there was a risky area in the camping Lolen.
In the first instance, the accused park rangers had been dismissed and the Federal Court of Appeals of Roca He confirmed that dismissal in September 2020. The prosecution and the complaints appealed that resolution and the July 14, 2021, the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation annulled the sentence of the Roca Chamber, He removed the judges who had issued the ruling and ordered a new resolution to be made.
On October 26, 2021, the Federal Court of Appeals of Roca, composed especially of judges Alejandro Silva and Simón Bracco, admitted the appeals of the prosecution and the plaintiffs and He prosecuted the four park rangers and two members of the Mapuche community without preventive detention. that is at the scene (the accident occurred in a complex exploited by the Curruhuinca community).
The trial It will begin on Monday, October 30 and will last until November 2. For those dates, the suspension of activities in most of Argentina’s national parks is planned.
Tragedy of two children in Lanín park: mountain guides declared themselves once morest the measure announced by National Parks
On the National Parks page it was published that while the trial lasts (from October 30 to November 2) a total paralysis will be carried out in all protected areas of the country.
According to the Neuquén guides, a little over a week ago, also They received a communication via email to inform them that, for this reason, they should suspend the scheduled activities.
Although National Parks announced a union measure in support of those facing the judicial process, but the Mountain guides maintain that “they are prohibited from working and held hostage”.
Members of the Mountain Guides Association, They delivered a letter to the entrance table of the Lanín National Parkso that the contingents that had already paid for trips to the Lanín volcano can do so.
Adolfo Gatica, member of the Association of Mountain Guides of the Argentine Republic, mountain range and trekking guide, explained that “it is a union measure, there is no resolution. They allege that, When people are in a protest, they do not have personnel to take care of the people in the mountain and that creates a huge problem for us, because people have scheduled vacations, with hotel reservations, flights and so on.
For their part, they report that They met with people from Parque Lanín to raise the possibility of unblocking the conflictbut that “they are focused on the fact that they do not prohibit us from going up, but if we go up, they can sanction us. This affects our right to work. We recognize that they can protest as a union, but they do not open dialogue”, he detailed.
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