“We are facing the crime of reduction to servitude and the events have occurred both in Cuba and in Argentina,” said the complaint in the case in which the prosecutor in the case, Carlos Rivoloruled by the file.
Álvarez’s lawyers recalled that “the victim was captured in the Caribbean country, there her will was eroded, aligning her by separating her from her family”, then she was supplied with drugs and the crimes “continue in Argentina, where she was kept prisoner”.
The complaint stated that the judge “is empowered to analyze the events that occurred” and argued that they are not time-barred because “public officials” from both countries intervened, something that would have interrupted the deadlines.
They also argued that the crimes of human trafficking and reduction to servitude are both of a non-prescriptive nature (as well as any crime “analogous to slavery”), in accordance with mandatory international customary norms.
“In another order of things, an omission of the sentence in crisis is criticized. The resolution, in short, closes the possibility of investigating and punishing crimes committed against a woman (and a girl, at that time), contrary to the obligations contained in article 7 of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Violence against Women (Convention of Belem do Pará)”.
And they stated that “even if it were considered that the passage of time has made it impossible to punish the reported crimes, that would not deprive the state of investigating them. It is that, for the affected woman, the verification of her history represents a form of reparation sometimes even more important than the punishment of their aggressors”.
On March 2, Rafecas filed for “extinction” the open case against Maradona due to his death, and by prescription with respect to the other five accused people from the former soccer player’s environment.
In his ruling, the magistrate indicated that the events “would have been carried out mainly by Maradona, with the secondary participation of the rest of his collaborators between November 9, 2001 and January 19, 2002,” according to the admission records and Álvarez Rego’s departure to our country.
He added that in the face of this situation “there are procedural obstacles that prevent the investigation and prosecution of the facts from being carried out, given that, with respect to the authorship of Mr. Diego Armando Maradona, the death that occurred is public knowledge, so any action against him is extinct, in accordance with article 59 subsection 1 of the Penal Code”.
Regarding the other defendants in the case, the ruling states that “more than 20 years have passed since the events and in full agreement with the arguments made in the opinion dated February 1, 2022 by the prosecutor, the action would be prescribed, given that the foreseen deadlines have amply elapsed”.
The people denounced in the case and who were part of Maradona’s entourage at that time were Carlos Ferro Viera, Omar Suarez, Guillermo Coppola, Gabriel Buono and Mariano Israelit.
Rafecas’s ruling highlighted the “non-interference that Argentine Justice has in events that occurred in Cuba and Maradona, as the only possible recipient of sanctions, but being dead, the chance is extinct.”
In her complaint, Mavys Álvarez claimed to have been in Argentina in 2001 and indicated that during the two and a half months of her stay, “she was not allowed to go out alone and that in the country she underwent breast augmentation surgery without authorization. of his parents despite being a minor”.
Source: Ambito
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