He Oral Criminal and Correctional Court No. 29 started this Friday the Second trial against Facundo Torreshe police of the City accused of having planted the gun inside the car he was traveling in Lucas Gonzalez with his friends in November 2021. The officer refused to testify in the context of the young man’s crime.
In the first trial, the officers were sentenced to life imprisonment. Gabriel Alejandro Isassi, Fabian Andres Lopez and Juan Jose Nieva for “homicide quadruple aggravated by having been committed with treachery, pleasure and racial hatred with the premeditated concurrence of two or more persons, abusing their function or position as members of a police force.”
Now that the second trial is underway, Torres is charged with the crimes of ideological falsehood, illegal deprivation of liberty aggravated by functional abuse and without provision of the law, concealment aggravated by the status of public officials and because the preceding crime is especially serious, and imposition of torture.
Torres refused to testify
When the hearing was held, the elevation to trial was read and the agent of the 4D Neighborhood Police Station He refused to appear before judges Juan Ramos Padilla, Guillermo Friele and Sergio Paduczak, although he assured that he would do so later. In addition, it is expected that next week the police officer who in the first debate stated that a weapon had been “planted” at the scene is to appear as a witness.
At that moment, the officer Hector Cuevas (member of the 4D Police Station) pointed the finger at Torres, claiming that he had “planted” the toy gun inside the car in which the victims were riding at the time of the events.
“The accused [Torres]immediately after the alleged ‘armed confrontation’, he went with Issasi to the police station where he worked for take a prop weapon which he gave to his companion to place inside the Volkswagen, located at the intersection of Perdriel and Alvarado streets in this Capital,” considered the prosecutor in charge of the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 32, Leonel Gómez Barbella, and the assistant prosecutor María Victoria Fiore.
Representatives of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) They indicated that the accused “was fully aware of what had happened to the victims and actively participated in the plan subsequently put together to justify the actions of the members of the Brigade.”
Chronology of the case
On November 17, 2021, Lucas and his friends Joaquín Zúniga, Julián Salas and Niven Huanca were returning from the club to their respective homes in the San Eduardo neighborhood, Florencio Varela. After stopping to buy something at a kiosk, the Volkswagen Suran they were in was intercepted at the intersection of Iriarte Avenue and Vélez Sarsfield by a Nissan Tiida from which three men got out and they pointed guns at.
These people belonged to the City Police and were the inspector Gabriel Alejandro Issasithe senior officer Fabian Andres Lopez and the officer Juan Jose Snowbut they did not carry no kind of identificationThe young men believed it was a robbery, so they fled. A chase began that ended with five shots fired from the police car, one of which hit Lucas González in the head.
Beginning of the trial
The trial in which the three police officers involved were accused as co-authors of the crimes of “homicide aggravated by having been committed with treachery, for pleasure, for racial hatred, by the premeditated concurrence of two or more persons and by being committed by abusing his function or position by a member of a police force” It started on Thursday, March 16th.
In addition, others 11 personnel They were accused of concealment and tortures towards the victim’s friends. Those involved are: Daniel Alberto Santana, inspector commissioner of the Communal Neighborhood Department 4 of Barracas; his colleague of the same rank Rodolfo Alejandro Ozán; the commissioners of that department, Fabián Alberto Du Santos, Juan Horacio Romero and Jesús Chocobar. Also Roberto Orlando Inca, from the Summons and Brigades Division of the department, the principal of Commune 4D, Héctor Claudio Cuevas; and the officers of the Neighborhood Police Station 4D Sebastián Jorge Baidón, Jonathan Alexis Martínez, Ángel Darío Arévalos and Daniel Rubén Espinosa.
In their statements, all the defendants agreed that they “acted in the line of duty.”
Statements from the victim’s relatives
At this stage, the victim’s parents and friends, who were with him at the time of the murder, testified. During her testimony, Cintia López, Lucas’ mother, said that when she saw her son in the hospital before he died, “he was unrecognizable” and said that “five police officers They guarded him as if he were a criminal“.
On the other hand, Luke’s three friends gave their testimony both in their character as witnesses to the murder as of victims. They all agreed that they were tortured and discriminated against by the Buenos Aires police.They put us on the floor and handcuffed us.“They started telling us that we were shitty blacks, slum dwellers, and that people like us should be shot in the head like they shot my friend,” said Salas, who was the driver during the attack.
“I see a vehicle on my right starting to block us, so I honked at him because I thought he was distracted. He finished blocking me and someone got out from the driver’s side with a gun, and I thought they were going to rob me. At that moment, Start shooting senselessly“I handed out the flyer and I stepped onto a curb. I became confused, I don’t know how many shots were fired or what happened,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
I am Pierce Boyd, a driven and ambitious professional working in the news industry. I have been writing for 24 Hours Worlds for over five years, specializing in sports section coverage. During my tenure at the publication, I have built an impressive portfolio of articles that has earned me a reputation as an experienced journalist and content creator.
