02/26/2020 - 13:30
- Clarín.com
- Society
Two women detained with more than 100 packages containing cocaine were acquitted in Jujuy after the controversial ruling of a judge who considered the drug to be of such poor quality that it could not be considered a narcotic . However, another magistrate in a higher instance condemned them.
The acquittal ruling had been signed by Abel Fleming, judge of the Federal Oral Court of Jujuy, who even wryly warned that "those who sell such a degraded substance, instead of affecting public health, take care of it ."
"100 ravioli were kidnapped that totaled just 8 grams of cocaine, so in order to consume a dose with threshold effect they had to ingest 11 ravioli," the judge explained in statements to Radio Con Vos.
He added: "On the grounds of the ruling I said that these people were selling smoke , an expectation that is not met, that there was a scam to consumers. And I could add with that same irony that those who sell such a degraded substance, instead of affecting public health, they take care of it. "
The main argument of the magistrate is that being so stretched, the substance "does not produce changes in the central nervous, is a placebo," and returned to ironize that it was a "scam . "
" In my understanding they did not commit a crime , because to say that it is a drug, a substance must be capable of producing a physical or psychic dependence and I think that the drug thus stretched does not produce that," he insisted.
The women, 52 and 58, were arrested last July after an operation investigating the sale of drugs in the Alto Comedero neighborhood in Jujuy.
Despite Fleming's ruling that allowed them to regain freedom, the women were convicted after the trial prosecutor appealed the decision. Finally, the Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber, through the ruling of Judge Guillermo Yacobucci, condemned them.
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