Crime of Blas Correas: the plaintiffs’ lawyers have requested life imprisonment for the two police officers who fired

The three lawyers for the plaintiffs in the trial of 13 police officers for the crime of the teenager Valentino Blas Correasshot on August 6, 2020 in the city of Córdoba, today demanded that the two officers accused of shooting be sentenced to life imprisonment.

The lawyers thus adhered to the request made previously by the prosecution and aimed mainly at the accused Lucas Damián Gómez (37) and Javier Catriel Alarcón (33).

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According to the prosecution, one of the shots that these two police officers fired at the Fiat Argo in which the victim was driving with four friends, He hit Correas in the back (17)Therefore, after the impact, the driver of the vehicle went in search of a hospital, which led to a series of events involving other people. 11 members of the force.

In their allegations, the prosecutors have requested sentences of up to six years in prison for each of these 11 police officers, which the plaintiffs also agreed to when presenting their arguments this morning before the Eighth Criminal Chamber of the Province of Córdoba.

The legal representative of the Correas family, Alexandre Perez Morenodeclared this Friday: “We, who exercise this dear and beautiful passion which is to be a criminal lawyer, are generally defenders, which is why the test must never come to us to reach this certainty, that the great professors procedural They were talking about political certainty in order to be able to condemn.

“At times I was able to listen allegations “Well, there is no film that certifies with certainty that this is how the events unfolded”, but here if the films are there, we can see them, that is to say that no one can deny what is being filmed,” he continued.

In this sense, the lawyer affirmed: “We have had the opportunity to see that the main fact in which Gómez and Alarcón shoot with unquestionable and indisputable homicidal intent against the five young people who were driving in the fiat-argowith results already known to all.

“We have eight cameras, four from each patrol car, but we also have the explanation and the story from other officers,” he added.

Finally, Pérez Moreno adhered to the sentences requested by the prosecution, as did his colleagues. Manuel Gutierrez and Julio Herrera Martinezrepresentatives of the families of the other young people who were in the car.

On that day, these four young people were present at the hearing, while the trial will continue on Wednesday March 8 and it is estimated that the verdict will be delivered by the end of the month, judicial sources said.

In his allegation last week, House Prosecutor Fernando Lopez Villagra describes what happened at the time of the shooting, when Gomez and Alarcon They were stationed at a checkpoint, where the vehicle with the youths did not stop, and for this reason they fired.

While the prosecutor Marcelo Hidalgo refers to the actions of members of the force who sought to conceal the crime, for example, plant a gun in the car of the young people, who were between 17 and 18 years old at the time of the incident, and asked for the sentences for the 11 other police officers.

For prosecutors, Gómez and Alarcón were co-authors of the crime of “qualified homicide due to his position, due to the use of firearms”, to the detriment of Correas, and “qualified homicide due to the abuse of his position in a degree of repeated attempt” of the four friends who were with the murdered teenager.

In addition, they demanded five years in prison for officer Wanda Esquivel, accused of having “planted” the weapon and therefore of having attributed it to Blas and his friends in order to make believe that it was ‘a confrontation.

Based on the evidence collected during the investigation, Hidalgo reported audio messages in which Esquivel was asked to perform this action.

He also asked five years and nine months in prison for deputy officer Yamila Martínez, patrol partner of Gómez (indicated as the author of the fatal blow), who took part in the alleged search during which the revolver was removed.

He also requested six years in prison for Walter Soria, Jorge Galleguillo, Sergio González and Juan Antonio Gatica; when he asked for five years and nine months for Enzo Quiroga; five for Leonardo Alejandro Martínez, Rodrigo Toloza and Ezequiel Agustín Vélez; and five years and four months for Leandro Alexis Quevedo.

At the same time, he asked for the 11 defendants to be banned for 10 years from exercising any public function.

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