A total of 13 policemen are put on trial by popular juries for the crime of Valentino Blas Straps17 years old, shot to death during a security control operation, on August 6, 2020, in the city of Córdoba.
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According to the case, Juan Cruz Camerano Echevarría (20) was driving a Fiat Argo with four friends from school (including Valentino Blas), all 17 years old at the time and who had agreed to meet to go to a bar.
When they were driving along Vélez Sarsfield and Romagosa avenues, in the Colinas neighborhood, they came across a preventive police checkpoint where the officers signaled to the driver to slow down, although when he approached the security post he accelerated.
In his testimony, Echeverría said that he was scared because when he was regarding to stop he saw that one of the police officers was holding a gun.
While the troops notified the commandos and mobiles regarding the evasion, Corporal 1° Lucas Damián Gómez (37) fired four shots with his service weapon once morest the car that the young people were driving “with the intention of killing them”, according to the procedural piece of elevation to trial.
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For his part, 1st Corporal Javier Catriel Alarcón (33), who was also at the checkpoint, “in a tacit agreement (with Gómez) and contributing to the common plan of killing the occupants of the vehicle,” carried out two shots fired at the moving vehicle “knowing that there was no legal justification for it”.
The accusation maintained that “Gómez and Alarcón displayed these behaviors abusing their function, once morest the regulations that regulate the proper use of regulatory weapons by the security forces.”
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