The lawyers of Lucia Cassiau, ex-partner of Nestor Ortigoza who reported him for gender violence, requested that the member of Saint Lawrence be summoned to inquiryconsidering it a “continuing crime.” The investigation is carried out by the prosecutor Maria Lorena Gonzalez of the decentralized UFI No. 3 of Ezeiza.
In turn, the victim’s defenders had been preparing a precautionary measure to prohibit the former soccer player from leaving the country due to a debt of more than one and a half million pesos in the food quota.
This Monday, the lawyers Roberto Herrera and Mariano Di Giuseppe They asked prosecutor González in writing to formal indictment of the accused for the alleged continued crime of gender violence.
The arguments of the defense to request the investigation of Néstor Ortigoza.
According to the lawyers, the former soccer player would have carried out repeated acts of physical and psychological violence towards Cassia, which implies a systematic pattern that extended from at least 2015 until the time of the formal complaint.
In their presentation, the defenders maintain that the acts of violence committed by Ortigoza meet the requirements established by article 54 of the Penal Code to be considered a continuing crime. “The attacks respond to a single criminal resolutioncharacterized by a pattern of control and submission within the couple’s relationship,” they argued.
“The physical and psychological violence exercised against our client does not constitute isolated events, but rather a continuity of illicit conduct that affect their physical and emotional integrity, violating fundamental rights recognized by national and international legislation”, They insisted.
It is based on these arguments that they requested that Ortigoza appear to give an investigative statement under the terms of article 308 of the Criminal Procedure Code, since the evidence collected, which include audiovisual material, testimonies and previous complaints, are sufficient to support his accusation.
Source: Ambito
