“I’m innocent, I’m going to love them all my life, I’m going to need them like I needed them all this time.”“he declared Martin del Rio this afternoon in Court No. 7 of San Isidro within the framework of the trial investigating him for the alleged murder of his parents. Before a popular jury, the 50-year-old man assured: “Before I had touched my parents I would have killed myself.”
Accused of qualified double homicide for treachery, for the link, for the use of a weapon and for being premeditated, Del Río spoke for an hour and a half and in addition to emphasizing his innocence, he gave his hypothesis of the crime by pointing out that his parents were victims of a commando attack carried out in Melo 1101 during the early hours of August 25, 2022. “My parents were subjected to a autocommando led by someone who has a black car and two others behind“We know that from day one,” he warned.
“I want to talk about my family, my parents, everything that I have experienced in these 50 years, which I recently completed under arrest with a totally unjust accusation. I am totally innocent of this charge.. Two years and three months ago I have been suffering from confinement, from being left without my family, from violence in prison“, began.
Regarding his hypothesis of the crime, he said: “The only thing I ask is that it be investigated. Let the missing 13/14 hours be investigated. And from the gate door to the inside, Let’s not go looking for people 50 blocks away.. From the gate door to the inside, where the event happened. I am innocent, I am going to love them all my life, I am going to need them like I needed them all this time.”.
Crime of Vicente López: the harsh testimonies against Martín del Río
Prior to his statement, 16 witnesses presented by prosecutors Alejandro Musso, Marcela Semeria and Gastón Larramendi spoke against him before the jury. Among them were his brother Diego Del Rio, his ex-wife Cecilia Sánchez and his ex-lover Paola Coquiara.
“I am very distressed, I have not slept for four days,” he said and referred to the statements against him: “They have treated me as a manager, as a lazy person, as a liar, as a scammer, as a blackmailer, as a scammer. I believe that a scammer who provides legal guarantees is not a scammer. Bicycle rack can be. But I always paid, to this day I don’t owe anyone a single dollar.”.
At this Wednesday’s hearing, Cecilia Sanchezhis ex-wife, recounted the pain she experienced with her children the moment she found out about her ex-partner’s participation in the incident.
In front of the jury, he broke the silence and launched: ”It’s a monster that lived inside the house. It humiliated me as a woman, as a mother. He betrayed us. The damage he did to us is irreparable.. He lied to us all the time. It’s such a humiliating situation. “You feel so violated,” also alluding to the discovery of Del Río’s parallel life. In addition, she assured that both she and her familyleft in a state of vulnerability”and what are”under treatment”. And he added: ”What happened to us I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.”
Crime of Vicente López: Martín del Río remains the main suspect
Martín Del Río was arrested in 2022 after being identified as the “hooded walker” that was observed on the security cameras on the day of the crime. At first, Aquino, the domestic employee, was detained, believing she was the deliverer, but days later she was acquitted and the arrest of the couple’s youngest son was ordered.
Prosecutors stated that River entered his parents’ house through the garage and carried out “a plan that he had previously outlined.”
Judicial officials detailed that the accused shot his father in “the right cervical arealeft intercostal and in the left thigh”, while he immediately shot his mother at a distance of less than 50 centimeters: “The projectile entered the area above the right eyebrow, causing the loss of the right eyeball, all which caused immediate death.”
For prosecutors, the motive of the double patricide was economical And about this, they mentioned a frustrated real estate operation in which the victims thought that that same day they were going to move into a luxurious apartment in the building. Chateau Libertador from the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Nunez, that the accused was never able to specify.
At the same time, it is also estimated that the victims were going to discover the financial mismanagement that had occurred in the family businesses.
Source: Ambito
