Felicitas Alvite (21)the tiktoker known as “La Toretto”will continue to be detained with preventive detention accused of simple homicideafter having hit and killed a motorcyclist while speeding and after running a red light in The Silver. The information was confirmed by sources in the case TN.
The Guarantee Judge Marcela Garmendia issued the resolution on the road incident that cost the life of Ruben Walter Armand (36), last April 12.
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“I resolve: 1-Do not make room for a change in legal qualification and freedom due to lack of merit requested by private defenders, Flavio Gliemmo and Santiago Irisarriwith respect to his assisted Felicita Alvite (arts. 84 bis of the CP and 320 of the CPP, both to the contrary). 2-Convert the detention of Felicitas Alvite into preventive detention for the crime classified as simple homicide, provided for and punished in art. 79 of the Penal Code,” the ruling states.
The measure was announced this Thursday at noon, just around the closing of the deadline that Garmendia had to issue. The judge’s determination is in line with the request of the prosecutor in the case, Fernando Padovanhead of UFIJ No. 12 of Culpable Crimes.
“La Toretto” could receive house arrest and await trial outside prison
The Court of Guarantees of La Plata relied on “the existence of procedural risks that justify the issuance of this measure.” However, he opened the possibility of grant house arrestso in the future “La Toretto” could wait for the oral trial outside of prisonalthough with restrictions.
Alvite will remain detained after the judicial resolution. (Photo: TikTok capture/video)
“Given the age of the accused, her roots, her family situation, the absence of a criminal record and, especially, the procedural status of the present investigation. -Which has been closed by Mr. Fiscal Agent-, I consider it appropriate to initiate a personality incident regarding Felicitas Alvite, in order to evaluate in the future a less burdensome measure to that imposed in this resolution”, reads the ruling to which he had access TN.
“La Toretto” demands house arrest from “today”
Hours before last Tuesday’s hearing between the parties, the defense had requested the lack of merit for the young woman through a writing in which she demanded “her immediate freedom.” And this Thursday, when the resolution was known, she demanded that the house arrest be carried out from “today.”
“In order to what was resolved and taking into account the documentation in the record, we request that our assisted person be granted on this day the reduction of preventive detention, specifically a house arrest”says the presentation signed by Gliemmo and Irisarri.
The lawyers relied on “the behavior of our assistant after the incident occurred, the medical certificates in the records, repeated panic attacks –one of which was suffered in the presence of the Prosecutor during the declaration of 308 CPP- and that, once the arrest order was signed, it was immediately presented to the DDI so that the precautionary measure could be carried out.”
In the same presentation, the defense mentioned that the psychiatrist of the Alcaidía N°3 by Melchor Romerowhere the accused is detained, “he gave him escitalopram – an antidepressant – plus an increase in the dose of clonazepam.” Gliemmo explained to TN that the request “can be resolved in days or opened on a trial basis.”
During Tuesday’s hearing, the young woman He cried and asked Armand’s family for forgiveness., although he admitted that the gesture was “insufficient.” Alvite faces a sentence of between 8 and 25 years for “simple homicide with possible intent.”
Alvite (left) crossed the red light at high speed in the incident that cost the motorcyclist (right) his life. (Photo: Instagram / Felicitas Alvite and Walter Armand)
The case
Around 2 a.m. on April 12While driving a Volkswagen Gol Trend, the accused ran over Armand, who was alone on a Baraj Boxer model motorcycle.
Valentina Velázquez (20), her friend and driver of the Peugeot 207 who was traveling alongside her at the time of the incident, was also prosecuted for the incident. The central hypothesis of the representatives of the prosecution is that both they ran a dive.
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As recorded in the security camera images, which constitute the key documentary evidence of the case, the driver of the gray car crossed on red and at full speed the traffic light on the corner of Avenida 13 and 532. According to the experts, Alvite was driving at an average speed of 83 km/h.
Under these circumstances, he collided side-on with Armand, who suffered a violent blow to the head when he hit the asphalt and died hours later at the Gonnet Hospital.
