Gang rape in Palermo: the network accounts that defend the accused and the video they sent to the victim

Hay a repeating situation in the most famous cases in recent history. The defendants of the most cruel crimes usually have groups of acolytes who defend them, people able to mobilize in different ways to prove a supposed innocence. He case of rugby players found guilty of beating to death Fernando Báez Sosa is a recent example, with an Instagram campaign linked to defendants like Blas Cinalli.

an Internet, the six arrested for the gang rape committed in Palermo in February 2022 They also have someone to defend them.

In May 2022, a woman created a profile, also on Instagram, supporting Ignatius Retondo, Thomas Fabian Dominguez, Steven Alexis Cuzzoni, Lautaro Ciongo Pasotti, Angel Ramos and Franco Lykan. The account is called “Is Justice Fair?” and generates content with analysis of fragments of television programs, among others. Defending a person is not a crime or an offense but in recent days, something happened that crossed a border.

One of the defendants, Thomas Domínguez, communicated from prison and through social networks with the victim to send you one of these videos. This is at least what the young woman’s lawyers denounced before the COT n°14, which will be responsible for trying the defendants, probably in August of this year, for the crimes simple threats, sexual abuse with carnal onset aggravated by the intervention of two or more people and minor injuriesin real competition with each other.

Curiously, the news is known after the middle of this month the Court of the Chamber, with the judges Héctor Magariños and Daniel Morín, He denied Domínguez’s release after an appeal by his defense.

Apparently, Domínguez allegedly sent the messages from the “THpluggg” account. This is the Instagram profile that the accused had since before the facts and which was closed after his arrest after receiving hundreds of comments. Curiously, this account is managed, according to the description, by the profile itself “Is justice just?

The courtroom repeated Court 14’s arguments to keep Domínguez locked up in federal prison. He argued that he had placed the victim “in a situation of extreme vulnerability” after “taking advantage of his previous state” and marked “the possible hindrance to the investigation, because it is imputed to have intimidated the witnesses, so that a possible intimidation of the victim could not be excluded.” It also underlined “the obligation of the State to act with particular diligence to prevent, investigate, punish and eradicate violence against women”. The same Chamber of Duty, with judges Jantus and Bruzzone, had estimated in November 2022 that “Domínguez could intimidate the victim, just as he would have done with regard to the witnesses who witnessed the criminal activity investigated” .

The alleged abuse occurred during the February 28, 2022 Carnival holiday at 1300 Serrano Street in the Palermo Soho neighborhood. A couple of bakers and another neighbor They intervened when they saw that inside a Volkswagen Gol car parked next to the sidewalk, they allegedly abused a girl in a groupthey confronted them and called the municipal police.

The keys to solving the case were the multiple videos from the security cameras that recorded the group’s entire journey with the victim, the story of the young woman herself who clarified that she had never given her consent and that of the witnesses who helped her.

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The account “Is justice fair?” it is public, run by a woman who displays herself openly although her name is not listed. At the time of writing this note, the profile only had 1,021 followers and follows 677. This is not the only account with the same theme. There is another called “Palermo Case”supposedly run by the same person who in his description talks about having proof that “everything is a lie”.

This latest account is that he came out to deny the accusation against Domínguez about recent contact with the victim. “Prison boys don’t have access to cell phones, let alone social media. So, IMPOSSIBLE, that someone has communicated with her”published in a recent history.

The video sent to the victim was uploaded on February 12. There, a kind of analysis of the security cameras that appear in the file is carried out. In the description it says: “Enough lies. The media have already been fed for months. With this lie that destroys the lives of these boys. Furthermore, he adds: “Freedom for the boys of Palermo.

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