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The lawyer of María Victoria Caillava, the former Corrientes official, and her husband Carlos perezthe retired sailor, spoke this Tuesday eleven days after the disappearance of Loan Danilo Peña and announced that his clients are going to testify, although “They need time to calm down” because they are “scared.” The lawyer Ernesto Gonzalez He assured that the detained couple went to Corrientes in their car for a medical appointment and then to Resistencia, Chaco, to “buy a mobile home.”
“They are going to provide a statement. They are going to go ahead and provide all the information about what they were doing this time. They are going to provide all the collaboration as they did since Loan was lost. They stated that they wanted to testify but that they felt pressured and scared. They need time to calm down. If they make an omission, it seems like they are hiding something and they are not hiding it. ”, González indicated in dialogue with TN.
In this context, he added: “There are multiple hypotheses and several versions. Put yourself in the place they are in. The statement that both will have will specify exactly the place and time, keep in mind that there are multiple versions and testimonies that say that they saw them and that they did not see them. “They must be given the opportunity to report everything that happened to the authorities.” He also denied that Perez attempted suicide.
“If they are guaranteed the possibility of declaring, They will provide all the explanations“said González, four days after the arrest of both and after initially refusing to testify. In addition, the lawyer indicated the alleged movements of the couple after Loan’s disappearance in the cars where traces of the five-year-old child were found: “They went to the doctor [en la ciudad de Corrientes] and they bought the mobile home [en el interior de Chaco]”.
When asked why they changed from a Ford Ranger to a Ford Ka to travel to Chaco, the lawyer said: “I didn’t ask them. A Ford Ka consumes less fuel than a truck, it is to save money”. He also denied that the couple had financial problems.
Regarding whether Loan entered the vehicle, the lawyer assured that “cannot be specified”, and questioned the validity of the tests carried out on the dogs that found the scent. “It is not denied that the tests have yielded a positive result, that there are traces of Loan’s odor. Regarding this seizure of the vehicles and subsequent investigations, I emphasize that there are certain impressions at the time it was carried out,” he said. However, he could not elaborate on the possibility that they had “planted evidence”: “I cannot say that. It has to be analyzed under a magnifying glass in a rational and coherent way.”
González also indicated that Caillava and Pérez went to the interior of Chaco to pay for a mobile home. “It’s something that’s beyond me, I have to talk about it well to see if they have the receipts. I’m not denying that there is a camera, maybe there is, maybe there isn’t. There is a person who received the payment and will go as a witness,” she added.
Regarding the lunch at Loan’s grandmother’s house on the day of the child’s disappearance, to which his clients went, González assured that “they were invited” because The grandmother “is known to María Victoria.” “Any person who is considered good, it is customary to invite him to eat, everyone knows each other. “They knew each other from the town,” he justified. “They were at the lunch and collaborated with the search for Loan. “After lunch they left and returned hours later after being informed that Loan had disappeared,” he added later, in defense of marriage.
In another part of the interview, the lawyer pointed out the rest of the people who were at that lunch and who are not yet detained. “There are six accused. Trafficking is not something that two or three people organize. At some point more suspects should appear. Some may be dismissed and other people appear. We cannot ignore the fact that there are people who were with the minors and were not detained,” he said.
Finally, González was consulted about Commissioner Walter Maciel, who authorized his clients’ trips to Corrientes and Chaco: “I don’t know the information they may have shared. They were told that they had to go and they were told that they could go without any inconvenience.” In addition, he said that the relationship between Pérez and Maciel is “acquaintances.”
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