The last image that Claudia has her daughter on January 23, 2021. That morning and before leaving on his bicycle to work, Nicole Yamila Fuentes (21) asked him to organize everything to go spend the afternoon at the river with his little 4-year-old daughter and the rest of his family. “I never saw her alive again”he said with a broken voice.
They passed more than three years and Claudia Moretti (48) remembers that postcard as if time had not passed. “He happened to drop the baby off because he had to go to work,” he recalled.
Since that tragic event that cost the life of his daughter and that starred Gastón Enrique Marcello who hit her with his motorcycle at high speed and without having any lighting systemClaudia and her family promised to follow in the footsteps of this subject to demonstrate to Justice that he is a person who cannot be free.
«I am very happy, we have been waiting for this for three years. “My daughter did not deserve everything that was happening,” commented the woman after the order of Criminal Enforcement Judge No. 10, Fernando Romera, to arrest Marcello, who was residing in General Rodríguez, province of Buenos Aires.
Claudia told that for a long time he sold fried cakes and met many neighbors that every so often passed information about the steps of this subject. «This person really enjoyed freedom because the people who knew my daughter knew that He consumed alcohol and drugs, while we painted yellow stars on the street«he commented.
The journey was long but they collected information that they took on several occasions to Judge Romera. “I was going to find him and I was sure that they were going to condemn him so that he would be imprisoned”said the woman, adding that the magistrate “he forgave him three times”.
He said that on one occasion They had taken him out of a nightclub in Las Grutas completely drunk even though consumption was prohibited. and he even appeared on social networks because they recognized him as the person who had been involved in the accident where Nicole died.
We knew that his sister had given him a car and that every Friday afternoon he was going to look for a relative to Neuquén even though he was forbidden to drive for 10 years »
Claudia Moretti, mother of Nicole Yamila Fuentes
And he added that many times they felt that justice “took their piss.” “It was always like I had a new opportunity.”said.
Finally at an audience held last year and after a request from plaintiff attorney Federico Allende and Nicole’s family, the magistrate agreed to have a test performed in General Rodríguez, Buenos Aires, where he had established his address. That study – which was carried out in the morning – determined that he had a blood alcohol level of 2.79 and that he had also tested positive for marijuana use.
In a hearing held on June 6, The judge revoked the benefit that had been imposed on him of three years of suspended prison for the death of the young woman. And now he must serve his sentence effectively in a detention center in the province of Río Negro.
«That’s it. “Now I do believe that my daughter will rest in peace.”said his mother.
Sentence
Gastón Enrique Marcello – the driver of the motorcycle that hit the young woman – was sentenced to 3 years in prison in suspense for the crime of manslaughter, aggravated by the reckless, negligent and anti -regulatory driving of a motor vehicleand for traveling at a speed greater than 30 kilometers per hour.
In his sentence, Judge Laura Pérez had established the penalty but had also imposed a 10 -year sentence that prevented her from driving any type of vehicles. Among the rules that Marcello had to respect was, in addition to establishing residence, appearing quarterly at the Institute for the Assistance of Prisoners and Released Persons and abstain from consuming narcotics or abusing the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
