A year of preventive detention accused of killing Paula Santana

He judge From the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of Santo Domingo Este, Leomar Cruz, on Friday imposed a year of prison preventive as a coercion measure Junior Lazarito Sánchez Martínezaccused of the death of the young Paula Santana Escalantein February 2024.

The former workman of the youngthat today is 26 years old, must comply with the measure in the penitentiary of Monte Plata. Santana Escalante, 23, was found lifeless in the vicinity of a sewer of the Las Américas Free Zone in Santo Domingo Este.

• Sánchez Martínez was arrested Wednesday, April 30. Santo Domingo Este prosecutor, Milciades Guzmán, said that – in the presence of his lawyer and with a signed document – the young man admitted have committed the fact.

In the Prosecutor’s Office were on Friday night the family from Paula, who with tears, continue to remember her and, like the first day, requested justice for his death.

During the audience, The Public Ministry presented evidence which described the blissful, including videos of security cameras, forensic evidence and a confession signed by the accused in the presence of his lawyer. The defendant did not speak this Friday.

The Prosecutor’s Office argues that Sánchez Martínez would have planned and executed the crimeso consider the prison preventive as the only measure that guarantees the continuity of the process judicial and avoids risks of escape.

Of the arrested initially

In the case, two people were initially arrested, who were later filed process provisionally while they were collected evidence and deepened the investigation.

• In September 2024, and after seven months of prison Preventive, Joaquín Hidalgo Marte and Alex Cruz Díaz were liberatedbecause the forensic report could not establish a direct relationship of its alleged participation in the death of the young.

Joan Manuel Mateo Medina, lawyer Of these last two indicated, he reached the prosecution of Santo Domingo Este, in search of their defendants being compensated and that the archive of the process be definitive.

Justice Committee for Paula

Santa SánchezMember of the Justice Committee for Paula and the working women’s movement, one of the organizations he has fought for more than a year to do justice, advocated to continue investigations, because in his opinion, other people could be involved in the event.

“They must continue (the research) because there are more involved. A single person could not commit This crime, “said Santa Sánchez.

Criticized that from the workplace They did not make “enough efforts” to clarify the death of the young woman and the same state, “that did not care.”

Sanchez said that it was possible to find the First culprit Because these Movements constantThey watered flyers, pickets and raised the voice in this regard.

He regretted that this young student of stewardess It will end this way.