Chaotic morning is being experienced this Monday in the provincial courts of Goya, where the six people linked to the disappearance of Loan Peña eleven days ago: the first three accused, Antonio Benítez, Mónica Millapi and Daniel Ramírez, and the last three, Carlos Pérez and his wife Victoria Caillava, and Walter Maciel, the former commissioner of 9 de Julio, for whom the sentence was issued around 2:00 p.m. preventive detention, stated the Guarantee Judge Darío Ortíz.
“I converted the detention into preventive detention,” Ortiz said. “I want to clarify thatThe six detainees are accused of human traffickingbut each one in their different functions and responsibilities.” The judge also announced that there will be a hearing to resolve the transfer of the case to federal jurisdiction.
The day is still so chaotic, with almost a hundred angry neighbors, who ended up pushing one of the defense lawyers. “People are very nervous, it is understandablee, but I am doing my job,” said Jorge Monti, lawyer for “Fierrito” Ramírez and his wife Millapi.
Until noon this Monday, the concrete thing is that Goya prosecutors Guillermo Barry and Juan Carlos Castillo They will declare themselves incompetent, so the case remains in the hands of the Federal Justice. Thus, the change of the current cover, “abandonment of person”, to “abduction of minors for trafficking purposes.”
For now, official Caillava, her partner Pérez and former commissioner Maciel nor gave a statement. Until now they have refused to do so. “They can give testimony whenever they want, whenever they want, before the prosecutor or before me, the guarantee judge.”
When asked by this media, Ortíz maintained that he was able to see the three detainees last Friday. “Of course I saw them, but I am a judge of guarantees, I cannot describe them, I cannot discern in the fine, in the detail, “We act at the request of a party and resolve at the time according to the justification and oratory presentation of each of the parties.”
Yes, on the other hand, declared Fierrito Ramírez, “he maintained the coherence of the story from the beginning. He submitted to all the questions of the prosecution and the complaint. And his testimonies coincide with those of Millapi and those of Benítez,” he expressed. Monti.
Monti, in dialogue with Clarion, criticized the investigation. “There is a lot of confusion, everything was done wrong, there was an alarming delay and even a striking lack of knowledge of the criminal code on the part of those responsible for the investigation. They should have been summoned, including grandmother Catalina, 87 years old. To all”.
This Monday, Ramírez, Benítez and Millapi would be accused of being secondary participants “and if they are found guilty, which I do not believe, they would fit a third of the sentence that the other defendants should have. We are talking between four and eight years.” Why did you stop representing Benítez, Loan’s accused uncle? “Because his family never contacted me. Five days passed and his wife Laudelina Peña completely ignored me.”
On the other hand, Monti was lapidary: “Explain to me How Laudelina Peña was not called to testify. In addition to grandmother Catalina and father, José Peña, none of them appeared. I am tired of doing the investigative work of prosecutors and plaintiff lawyers. It sounds pedantic to say it, but that’s the way it is.”
The residents of Goya, crowded in the courts, are losing patience. Photo: Fernando de la Orden / Special Envoy“My clients Millapi and Ramírez were not the labor of the intellectual authors. They only made one mistake: being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Justice could not verify any striking crossing, otherwise it would be registered. I deny to anyone that there have been contradictions or inconsistencies on the part of my clients. “I insist, if I am wrong, I will leave the legal profession and dedicate myself to something else.”
The defense attorney pointed out that “I will ask for the release of Millapi and Ramírez” before federal judge Cristina Pozzer Penso. “There is enough evidence for them to stop being locked up.”
“You idiot, who are you defending? Damn! You have no shame, Loan is a creature.” A handful of out-of-control neighbors approached and He insulted Monti, who ended up being pushed. “Go talk to the prosecutor, what are you coming to complain about me?” Monti, along with Marcelo Hanson, his colleague, had to run out and go through a service door of the prosecutor’s office.
