2023-09-05 05:41:00
The Oral Criminal Court 3 of La Plata condemned this Monday for the crime of manslaughter once morest four businessmen accused of the death of Emilia Uscamayta Curithe young woman who drowned in the early morning of New Year 2016in the pool of a illegal party in a country house on the outskirts of the city of La Plata.
The condemned businessmen are Carlos Bellone, Raul “Little” Garcia, Santiago Piedrabuena and Gaston Haramboure. “The ruling is convicting for the crime of culpable homicide for all the defendants. The sentence will be complete on Friday,” reported the court made up of judges Ernesto Domenech, Santiago Paolini and Andrés Vitali, at the time of the verdict.
The prosecution and the victim’s family they had requested for the crime of simple homicide with eventual intent the sentence of 14 years in prison for García, Piedrabuena and Haramboure; while for the owner of the house, Carlos Bellone, a sentence of between 8 and 10 years in prison was requested, due to his lack of criminal record.
At noon on Monday, following the brief reading of the verdict, the lawyer for Emilia’s family, Adrian Rodriguez Antinaoexplained to telam that “the only thing we are certain of is that the four defendants were found guilty of the crime of manslaughter.” “The only thing that can be inferred is that authorship is creditedwhat we are going to be able to know only on Friday are the fundamentals of why they reached that decision,” he commented.
The lawyer advanced that “it will probably continue in the Court of Cassation because we understand that it was not a mere accidentbut that it is the product of a fact of corruption accompanied by a excessive economic interest on the part of the defendants who showed indifference to the duty of generic guarantee that was to take care of the people”.
Clandestine party: “When they took her out of the pool, they left her lying around”
For Antinao, the verdict, although condemning, does not respond to what Emilia’s family requested, since “precisely, we all know that it was not an accident, an oversight, but that this went far beyond all the work unfolded so that, finally, all this event materializes”. “Let’s remember that It was a massive party and they had promised an ambulance and security and there was none of that. It was not an accident, it was an act of corporate corruption,” she stressed.
In relation to the fact that the sentence was for the four defendants, the lawyer said that “it is a question that has to do with authorship. The Court said ‘we know that they are authors’, we do not agree on the legal qualification that, taken to the level, says it was an accident. You have to remember that Emilia’s CPR was interrupted, all for the party to continue. That is still very serious, that this issue has not been resolved, “she determined.
How the condemnation of the businessmen was reached
The criminal process had five hearings and the testimony of more than 70 witnesses. The verdict was read in a packed room, following a mobilization carried out by Emilia’s family, friends, social organizations and authorities from the Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication of the UNLP where the young woman studied, from Plaza Moreno, in the center of La Plata, to the courts of 8 and 56 in which the debate took place.
The crime of manslaughter can have a sentence of 3 to 5 years and, according to the plaintiff lawyer, “we will have to see how the judges compute the criminal records” of the defendants. At the door of the courts, the young woman’s mother and her brother asked for Justice, and thanked the support of those who accompanied “these seven years of struggle.”
In the event that for the Court it was a culpable case, the trial prosecutor Silvia Langone had requested that a sentence of 5 years be applied to Haramboure, García and Piedrabuena and 3 to Bellone. In contrast, for the defense lawyers the request had been the absolutionarguing that the young woman “was drunk and that her brother, Cristian, present at the party, should have taken care of her and removed her from the place”, which was later considered by the complaint of a “patriarchal stance”.
The defendants Bellone and Haramboure did not want to exercise their right to a final word before the verdict, but García and Piedrabuena did. “I accompany from the depths of my heart the loss of a child, I have children and I can’t imagine. I can’t apologize for something i didn’t dobut I am going to accompany that immense pain that they have for having lost their daughter,” said Piedrabuena.
For his part, García said: “For more than seven and a half years one has had something here, something that does a lot of damage and I want to say it, I want to tell Emilia’s family that I’m sorryI feel it in my heart, I accompany that feeling. I want it to be clarified and that justice be done for his family and mine“.
The case of Emilia Uscamayta Curí
Emilia Uscamayta Curí was 26 years oldwas studying journalism at the National University of La Plata and died on January 1, 2016, when he was attending an illegal outdoor party in a country house located in Melchor Romeroon 520 street, between 159 and 160, on the outskirts of the city of La Plata.
The event, with two tracks and six bars, had been publicized on social networks as “La Frontera, the limit is set by you.” According to various testimonies, The young woman did not know how to swim and drowned in a pool where there were many people. The party did not have lifeguards or medical personnel, and the place did not have a municipal authorization to work.
According to the autopsy, Emilia died by “immersion in water” at a party that, despite the complaints carried out by neighbors, the management of the mayor Julio Garro did not interrupt. According to the defense, starting at 10:00 p.m. on December 31, 2015, police patrol cars or Urban Control vehicles disappeared from the area and they stated that they ran four million pesos in bribes.
The Faculty of Journalism and Social Communication of La Plata, in its building at 113 and 63, exhibits a mural in tribute to the young woman, remembering her passing and the continuous fight for recognition of the original towns, by his Quechua ancestry. In turn, in the front garden there is a monument in his honor next to a tree and a flag.
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