”He’s my brother. That person is my brother, I have known him for 50 years,” he said in the trial against Martín Del Río.
The trial against Martin Del Rioaccused of kill to his parents in the double patricide of Vicente López in 2022took a surprise after the statements of his own brother, Diego. In Court No. 7 of San Isidro, he assured that ”he wants him imprisoned”after seeing the images from the security cameras from the day of the crimes.
In front of the jury and without looking at his brother, Diego declared: ”I see the walker and it’s him. I have no doubt. I watched that video many times, 50 or 60. He’s my brother. That person is my brother, I have known him for 50 years. “He walks like that, a little crooked.”in reference to the video from that day, where the accused would be the one who was walking towards the house at Melo 1101.
In his long statement, he remarked: ”I just want him to be imprisoned”. And furthermore, he clarified that he does not ”hate” his brother: ”I could never feel anger, but I did feel a sadness that I…” he explained before drowning in his anguish. ”What annoys me the most, do you know what it is? That One of the two knew that his son was killing his husband or his wife. And I think it was my mother, my mother realized that Martín was killing his father. That moment must have been…” he added.
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The enormous sadness of the accused’s brother
”I feel enormous sadness for him.. Besides my parents, I lost the entire family I grew up with.. I lost my parents and 10 days later my brother. But I could never feel angry, it makes me sad,” he added.
”I’m sure they knew it was Martín who was behind them (in the car where the bodies were found). “They must have thought, ‘Our son is killing us,’ and that moment is indescribable to me.”
”For me He put together a bag of lies so big that he couldn’t handle it anymore.“There really comes a time when the whole accumulation of lies had accumulated in such a big way that either he had to tell the truth or make the decision he made and do what he did,” he said regarding the reasons that led to his brother to commit the crime.
As for the motive for the crime, Diego is sure that his brother killed his parents because I couldn’t continue with the ”big lie” that he had been holding for some time about the family economy. The accused was the one in charge of managing the family’s assets and In recent times it had generated unpayable debts that his parents did not know.
And he added: ”I had to make a decision, I had to do a cleanup that I couldn’t do. But what he did is incomprehensible. (If he was telling the truth) My father would have had a tough talk with him, probably taking over the administration of the money, but they were never going to leave him alone. They were going to be angry with him, yes, but nothing more.”
Upon leaving the room after his statement, Diego Del Rio He melted into a hug with a friendwho has been witnessing all the trial hearings. Even yesterday, when the accused’s brother could not be present because he had not yet given testimony. The eldest son of the Del Rio family will attend the remaining hearings until the end of the trial at his request. Seven more witnesses are expected to appear in court this Wednesday. Among them, the accused’s ex-wife, Cecilia Sánchez, and the lover, Paola Coquiara.
Source: Ambito
