The lawyer Fernando Burlando announced that he will leave the Loan case, The five-year-old boy who disappeared in Currents more than 70 days ago, and will not represent the family. The complaint is in the hands of Roberto Mendez, who had assumed the representation of the Peña family from the beginning.
“I’m no longer here, they revoked my contract without warning“, admitted the lawyer, in a decision approved by the boy’s mother, María Luisa Noguera (46), and by José Omar Peña (25), the brother. His colleague was also included in the complaint Gustavo Briend.
Burlando’s apartment
Burlando has permanently stopped representing the family since Thursday. The media lawyer explained that he was revoked “without warning” by his colleague and added that he earned “a couple of enemies” with his intervention in the file.
Loan’s parents had different lawyers in the case opened for the disappearance of the child since June 13. The mother and her son José were represented by Burlando and Sergio Briend, while the child’s father and his son Mariano had Roberto Mendez.
After the separation, Méndez will be the one to take the complaint from both parents. Méndez’s request – which also includes the removal of his partner Gustavo Briend – It was authorized by Loan’s mother and brother and presented before the federal judge Cristina Elizabeth Pozzer Penzo.
The document presented by Méndez before the judge reads: “I come for this act to revoke the mandate conferred to Drs. Fernando Andrés Burlando and Sergio Gustavo Briend, granted in due time by Mrs. María Luisa Noguera and Mr. José Omar Peña, assuming the entire complaint by the undersigned”.
Along with the revocations, Méndez presented two new requests: the recreation of the orange grove sequence –the last thing we know about Loan– based on the statements that the other minors in the group gave in the Gesell chamber, and the reconstruction of the pre-lunch scenewhich took place at Catalina Peña’s house, this time, focusing especially on what they did the adults who participated in the meal.
Regarding the case, in the last hours the Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrichwarned that “it is a matter of a family that made a decision, today Loan is not here, and none of them speak.” In addition, in radio statements the official detailed: “We are seeing that there was a closed circle of lies in the family, in those who were there. They have all taken an oath and decided not to speak.”
The harsh statements of the Judge in the Loan case
In the last few hours, the judge in charge of the case gave her opinion on the questions surrounding her performance and assured that all available resources are being used to discover what happened to the minor who disappeared on June 13. However, the judge said that It is not possible to promise that they will find Loan: “Us We cannot guarantee that we will find the child.“That’s putting a very heavy burden on us,” he said.
Regarding the investigation, the latest finding of the cause was the appearance of the T-shirt with blood stains in the orange grove area, the last place where Loan was seen before his disappearance. In reference to this, Pozzer Penzo explained that “with each alert an investigation is carried out, and since the beginning of this case we have some 4,000 complaints of different types. And We investigated them all“.
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On the other hand, the judge referred to the various hypotheses that exist about what happened and the current whereabouts of the minor and detailed that “There is a team of prosecutors who are recognized throughout the world, working on the issue of human trafficking.“.
Finally, Pozzer Penzo did not escape the criticism he received, which he described as subjective and warned that they were so cruel that they no longer mattered to him: “I defend myself, I try to improve my work, but it seems to me that the level of grievance we have reached can no longer be controlled“. Loan has been missing for 77 days now.
Source: Ambito
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