this friday the decision of the popular jury will be known in the trial whose protagonist is the businessman Martín Del Río, accused of double homicide aggravated by the crime of his parents in Vicente LópezJosé Enrique del Río (75) and María Mercedes Alonso (72).
Both the prosecution, which requested that Del Río be found guilty, and the defense gave their final arguments in the Oral Criminal Court number seven of San Isidro.
Under this framework, the accused gave his “last words” before the members of the popular jury and affirmed again that he is innocent, while expressing: ”I want to tell you that it is impossible to have committed this act without being at the scene, without the murder weapon having been near me. I am completely innocent, I love my parents and my children. I pray for my parents”.
And he added: ”I hope this is resolved and I find out who is responsible for the murder of my parents.”, while looking at the popular jury. Meanwhile, The defense alleged that there is no evidence against the businessman at the scene of the tragic event, in addition to showing his discontent with some issues of the trial.
The prosecutors Marcela Semeria, Alejandro Musso and Gastón Larramendi They spoke, and it was Semeria who said: “Today, beyond any reasonable doubt, the Prosecutor’s Office has proven that on August 24, 2022, between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Del Rio, acting safely, as had been his plan, He placed his parents in a state of defenselessness and with the use of a firearm belonging to his family he fired three shots at his father and one shot at the person who was watching him, his mother. It took their lives. Everything to cover up and not reveal the lies about the mismanagement of family assets“.
Martín Del Río declared on Thursday: “I am innocent, I will love you all my life”
Yesterday, the person accused of the double homicide also gave statements: “I want to talk about my family, my parents, everything that I have experienced in these 50 years, which I recently completed while detained 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 the violence in prison.”began.
Regarding his hypothesis of the crime, he maintained: “The only thing I ask is that it be investigated. That the remaining 13/14 hours be investigated. And from the gate 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’m innocent, I’m going to love them all my life, I’m going to need them like I needed them all this time.”
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.”
Source: Ambito
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