In addition to the sentence, they required a compensation of US$518,000 and expand the environmental protection 500 hectares from the ranch The Pearlplace where the event occurred.
On the day in which the sentence that La Regina will receive will be known, in the request that the complaints and the prosecutor Florencia Gómez coincided, while the defender Federico Ruffa requested a penalty of one year in prisonwhich would be releaseable.
What was the origin of the cause?
The Regina was found guilty for the judges of the Superior Court of JusticeMaría Martini, Eve Ponce and Carlos Richieri, for the majority of the charges in which he was accused of affecting the environment and cause the death of penguins of Magallanes when carrying out clearing tasks in his field, north of the fauna reserve of Punta Tombo in 2021.
“This collegiate court unanimously rules declaring Ricardo La Regina as criminally responsible perpetrator of the crimes of aggravated damage, a fact in the form of a continuing crime, in ideal conjunction with the crime of Animal Cruelty“said the court.
La Regina is held responsible for the damages provoked during the events that occurred between August 10 and 14, September 10 and 14, November 26 and December 4, 2021. However, only in the last case was found guilty of animal cruelty, while in the other two incidents it was acquitted of that crime.
Sentence and guilt
When he was found guilty last Thursday, the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the province mentioned: “This is a case without precedent that affected the environment, biodiversity, flora and fauna in a sector that should have been protected“.
The judge Richieri and the accused followed the hearing remotely, who was represented in the courtroom by his defense attorney Ruffa. “The judges confirmed the existence of hundreds of dead penguins, but in no raid nor did any witness see a feature of a damaged penguin,” Ruffa said.
Finally, the lawyer argued that “those penguins clearly They were not crushed by a machine and speaking with specialists they told us that they have a high mortality rate in the first days. First they said they died from the collapse of the earth and then when I asked him if he had seen crushed penguins he said yes and then they pulverized and disappeared. No penguin features torn because there weren’t any.”
Source: Ambito
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