Within the framework of the investigation for the crime of Lucas Gonzalezthe young man of only 17 years killed by policethe officer Facundo Torres was sentenced to five years in prison for concealment. This was determined by the Oral Criminal and Correctional Court (TOC) No. 29.
Torres was accused of having planted toy gun at the crime scene to try cover up the murder and hinder the investigation. Gregorio Dalbón, The family’s lawyer had requested 10 years, while the prosecution had requested six years..
The prosecutor Sandro Abrales He maintained: “The role of Torres was decisive at the crime scene. If the weapon landing went well, impunity was guaranteed and the condemnation and deprivation of liberty of the boys was certain.”
For Abrales, the former police officer had a fundamental participation in the “ideological falsehood and aggravated illegal deprivation of liberty” to the detriment of the group of friends and requested a sentence of six years in prisonas well as the disqualification for 10 years to exercise public function and carry/have weapons.
“Lucas González, like his friends Niven Huanca Garnica, Julián Alejandro Salas and Joaquín Zuñiga Gómezwere victims of institutional and police violence with a serious impact on their rights,” he pointed out decisively.
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Facundo Torres was sentenced to five years in prison for the murder of Lucas González.
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The murder of Lucas González
Lucas González was murdered on November 17, 2021 by three troops of the Buenos Aires City Police when I was leaving soccer training at the club Central Barracksalong with his friends. He died the next day.
The police officers simply opened fire on the boys’ car and the shots hit the former Barracas Central soccer player. In this second trial, the role of Torres was analyzed, who planted a prop gun in the car in which Lucas and his friends were traveling, in order to establish the hypothesis that the young people had gone out to steal and that the crime had occurred in the middle of a “police chasel”.
The troops were traveling in a Nissan Tiida car without police identification or license plate, They got out and pointed them at Lucas and his friends, who tried to avoid the situation, believing it was a robbery.
After the shooting, an operation was mounted in the area which lasted until night and ended in the arrest of González’s friends. Although during the first investigation that was made to the judicial authorities it was maintained that a weapon was not observed inside the victims’ car, later a weapon was found there.prop islandwhich was later determined to have been planted by Torres.
Previous convictions
In July 2023, the inspector had already been sentenced to life imprisonment Gabriel Alejandro Issasithe senior officer Fabián Andres Lopez and the officer Juan José Nieva.
This was after the court established co-authorship of the crime of “aggravated homicide for having been committed with a firearm, treachery, for racial hatred, for the premeditated collaboration of two or more people and for being committed by abusing his function or position by a member of a police force” of the young soccer player.
Furthermore, they were found guilty of: “attempted aggravated murderideological falsehood and illegal deprivation of liberty aggravated by functional abuse and without provision of the law”, in the case of Lucas’s friends.
In total, nine police officers were convicted, as they were also sentenced to six years in prison and and special disqualification for a term of 10 years, the commissioner of the 4D Neighborhood Police Station, Fabian Alberto Du Santosthe commissioner of Neighborhood Commune 4A, Rodolfo Alejandro Ozanthe commissioner Juan Horacio Romero and the deputy commissioner Roberto Orlando Inca.
These sentences are for the crime of “cover-up for having helped Gabriel Alejandro Issasi tamper with evidence of an aggravated crime because it is an act preceding a particularly serious crime and because the perpetrator is a public official in the exercise of his duties as a co-author in ideal competition with the crime of illegitimate deprivation of liberty, aggravated by abuse of his functions or without the formalities prescribed by law as co-author”.
In turn, the principal of Commune 4D, Hector Claudio Cuevas (50), received a sentence of four years in prison and special disqualification for a term of 10 years for the same crime.
Source: Ambito

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