07/10/2020 - 13:34
- Clarín.com
- Police
While the search for Facundo Astudillo Castro continues and the case is advancing in the federal Justice, this Friday the last photo of the 22-year-old was discovered along with one of the policemen investigated for his disappearance.
They took it on April 30 in the town of Mayor Buratovich, in the south of the Province of Buenos Aires.
The image, broadcast by La Brújula 24 , was captured by the Buenos Aires Police itself after carving out an act for breaking the quarantine. There, Facundo is seen with her back to a cashier with a vest, next to a Toyota Hilux pickup truck.
Afterwards, the policemen involved in the control assured, the young man continued on his route 3 towards Bahía Blanca, where he was going to visit his girlfriend. However, his family maintains that he was detained, for which they denounce the "enforced disappearance".
The last photo of Facundo Astudillo Castro, in Mayor Buratovich. (Courtesy The Compass 24)
Facundo's family lawyer spoke in the last hours of "police cover-up" in the case and was satisfied with the decision to remove the province police from the investigation.
"Currently there are two cases: one provincial for whereabouts and another federal case (for the alleged forced disappearance) in which we are private prosecutors," explained the lawyer, Leandro Aparicio.
The lawyer mentioned a raid on the sub-police station in the Buenos Aires town of Mayor Buratovich , in the Villarino district, in which "the van where witnesses who went up to Facundo say, also the minutes and cell phones of the fourth policemen" that allegedly participated in the event.
Aparicio said that, in parallel, a request for a declination of jurisdiction was presented to the provincial justice and that while the prosecutor is in the case, he cannot investigate the Buenos Aires Police, bring any other force, and that was done with what which we took an important step ".
"The first raking was going to be done on June 19 in Mayor Buratovich, since they had said that the boy had been there, but when they are going to enter there, there were 5 mobile phones crossed to not enter," said the lawyer and reported that after This "went to look for Lieutenant Origone because someone fell and said he took him to Origone, and they ran 25 kilometers from the place."
He denounced that "the cover-up begins there" , which led to the hypothesis of forced disappearance.
According to the investigation, the young man was last seen on April 30 when he left his house in the town of Pedro Luro to go see his girlfriend in Bahía Blanca.
According to the investigation carried out by prosecutor De Lucía, witnesses who testified in the case claimed to have seen him sitting on the side of the road at the entrance to the town of Teniente Origone .
A witness stated that between 3 and 4 in the afternoon of that day, Astudillo told him that he had already been identified in Buratovich and had been infringed for circulating during the quarantine, and since then he has not been seen again.
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