The crime of Blas Correas: they asked for life imprisonment for the two police officers who shot

The prosecution of the 8th Criminal Chamber of Cordoba requested this Wednesday that he be sentenced to a sentence of life imprisonment the two police officers who shot dead teenager Blas Correa (17) in the early morning hours of August 6, 2020, as the victim was traveling with friends in a car that received six gunshot wounds.

The request was made during his oral argument by the prosecutor Fernando Lopez Villagra and it fell on the police LLucas Damien Gomez (37) there Javier Catriel Alarcon (33)regarding those who sought to be convicted of the crime of “capital homicide for office, for use of firearms, and capital homicide for abuse of office in a degree of repeated attempt” against the four other occupants of the car, according to the news agency telam.

“The shooting at the two men in uniform was not to stop them, but to kill them”said prosecutor López Villagra firmly before asking for life imprisonment for the two main defendants.

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Following the request of this prosecutor, the court decided to go to an intermission of one hour to continue with the prosecutor Marcelo Hidalgowho will demand the penalties for 11 other police officers who came to the debate, but charged with other crimes, including “false testimony and concealment”.

The other defendants, all police officers, are Wanda Esquivel, Sergio Alexander Gonzalez, Yamila Florence Martinez, Walter Eduardo Soria, Enzo Gustavo Quiroga, Jorge Ariel Galleguillo, Leonardo Alexander Martinez, Rodrigo Emanuel Toloza, Ezequiel Augustin Velez, Leandro Alexis Quevedo and Juan Antonio. Gatica. . . .

The four youths traveling in the Fiat Argo that received the six bullets were present on the day of the allegations: Cristóbal Bocco Cámara, Mateo Natali, Camila Toci and the driver, Juan Cruz Camerano Echevarría (21), who at the time was the only one of legal age with 18, while the others were 17.

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Correas’ mother was always with them, lacial lonelinesswho in dialogue with the press agency telam said: “Society has understood that this cannot happenI wouldn’t have achieved anything on my own, if I hadn’t had the company or the empathy to understand that it doesn’t have to happen to you to ask for things to change, for me it’s the most never, and it is among all”.

“I know I will never see Mosquera (Alfonso, former provincial security minister) or the governor (Juan Schiaretti), but the state killed my son. He didn’t plant the gun or shoot, but the state killed him, because he knew what was happening and did nothing, Blas was neither the first nor the last, and they will have to take care of itLaciar asserted.

In this sense, the victim’s mother said that “it would be very unfair to say that it was the responsibility of 13, 15 or 20 police officers, it is the responsibility of a government that never gave security the place it should have”.

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Regarding the sentence which should be known next month, Laciar admitted: “I prefer to see the glass half full and not the glass half empty, there was a lot missing in this trial, but as I said, my fight does not stop there, it will stop when things changethis is an important first step, it has been a long time since there were 13 police officers seated, hoping that there will be at least 15 more”, he continued.

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