This Friday Pablo Parra accused of the crime of Agustina Fernández faces the hearing for the formulation of charges. Both the prosecution and the complaint presented the evidence gathered for the charge. If the investigation progresses, Parra will face a trial by jury.
Hoy The complaint and the prosecution will seek to demonstrate that the robbery denounced by Pablo Parra did not exist and that the person who attacked the young woman would be him. They pointed out that there is scientific evidence that rectifies the events.
In the first minutes of the hearing, the prosecution stated that the victim had sexual relations with another person, before meeting with Parra and this would have triggered the attack. In contexts of gender violence, the aggressors consider women objects of their property and thus violate their freedom.
Traces of blood on mobile devices, fingerprints and expert opinions on phones are scientific evidence that he brought together the complaint and that they locate the suspect at the scene of the events.
One of the indications that draws the attention of the experts is that “the Agustina Fernández and Pablo Parra’s cell phones were turned off immediately and simultaneously within the apartment of the accused”.
During the course of this morning, the prosecutor’s office and the complaint that represents the victim’s family will request precautionary measures once morest the detainee in the framework of the investigation. In this way, They requested six months of preventive detention for Pablo Parraand if found guilty, the penalty will be life imprisonment.
Preventive detention was requested in order to guarantee that the investigation continued its course. They stated that if Parra continues the process in freedom there are procedural risks: hindering the investigation and risk of flight.
The prosecution and the complaint ensure that during the six months that the investigation took place, Parra tried to divert the investigation by simulating a robbery. In addition, he simulated an alibi so that he will not be linked to the crime.
The defense, the lawyer Juan Coto, announced that they are going to request that the judge reject the measure. He pointed out that the prosecution does not have evidence to consider the defendant’s participation in the crime.
The piece that changed the course of the investigation
During the first hour of the hearing, the prosecution and the complaint presented the evidence gathered by the experts and the investigation team. One of the main compelling pieces of evidence that changed the course of the investigation was a “small piece of cloth found in a wire fence in the backyard of Pablo Parra’s house. Another indication is cell phones.
According to the defense theory, one of the pieces of evidence presented “is tainted.” According to the lawyer, “the cloth found on the fence contains traces of DNA from two genetic profiles.”
One of them that of Pablo Parra, and another of a cabinet worker. According to the defender “they do not know when the evidence arrived at that place and how the contamination occurred.” Also, he pointed out that that day the defendant was not wearing any clothing similar to the one that was found, and that the person who committed the crime must have arrived with that clothing.
The hearing is broadcast live on YouTube through the official channel of the RN Judicial Communication Directorate of the Río Negro Judiciary. The Cipolletti prosecutor’s office stated that this measure was chosen to “guarantee the publicity of the hearing.”
Yesterday, in the course of the followingnoon, they reported that private attorney Juan Coto assumed the defense of the defendant and will be in charge of providing the defendant’s technical assistance.
The crime
Agustina Fernández’s crime occurred on July 2 of this year. That day the young woman was found brutally beaten in a complex where she lived. Agustina was 19 years old, she had come to Cipolletti to study a career; she was studying her at the Cipolletti School of Medicine.
According to Parra’s testimony, the young woman was attacked during a robbery, days later she died at the Cipolletti hospital. As the young woman was an express donor, the young woman’s family proceeded to authorize her ablation, five people received Agustina’s organs.
Only a thousand dollars and two cell phones were taken from the apartment. According to Parra, the young woman was alone in the apartment at the time the attack occurred. He stated that he “went out shopping to share dinner with the young woman. When he returned he found her beaten on the ground. Most of the blows were to her head.
For months the investigation into the femicide was shipwrecked, but there were many indications that it was not a random robbery, but a premeditated act. For six months, justice worked stealthily to gather evidence to arrest Parra.
The arrest of Pablo Parra
On Thursday morning, two raids were carried out in Cipolletti, as a result of the proceedings Pablo Parra was arrested, as well as elements that will be examined.
The Cipolletti prosecutor’s office worked cautiously for months in order to gather enough evidence to achieve the arrest of Pablo Parra.
RIO NEGRO accessed key data that gave the cause a radical turn: Pablo Parra’s DNA. Justice found traces in a piece of clothing that was flaming on the fence in the patio of his house. That clue was decisive for the prosecutor to set his eyes on him.
Also, there is “scientific evidence that locates the suspect at the scene,” was the brief response from sources close to the investigation. Telephone tapping, forensic analysis of some cell phones and social media accounts, and numerous DNAs were part of the patient path taken not only by the prosecutor but also by the exclusive police commission that was formed to investigate Agustina’s femicide.
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