Ernesto Azarkevich
08/27/2020 - 16:58
- Clarín.com
- Police
Those close to Cristina Vázquez are still looking for an explanation for her decision to take her own life just eight months after leaving jail. Others harshly question the Judicial Power of Misiones, which held her in prison for 11 years accused of a crime without any firm evidence, as well as the State, which abandoned her to her fate.
The 38-year-old woman was found hanged this Wednesday afternoon in her apartment and all the evidence found at the scene indicates that she decided to commit suicide. A farewell note and the door locked from the inside ruled out the hypothesis of a homicide.
The priest Alberto Barros, head of Cáritas Posadas, published an emotional farewell letter on social networks, hours before a march by Human Rights organizations in front of the Government House.
“ With what insistence you told me about your innocence and your unjust imprisonment . Then I remember the visits, for so many years, in the women's prison ... You never let me go without first asking for my blessing. I know of your sincere faith, even in the pain and injustice, "wrote Barros, with whom Vázquez had been working since January in assisting needy families in Posadas.
Although she said that she did not know the reasons that led her to take her life in the small apartment she rented in the El Palomar neighborhood, she assured that " the missionary Justice hit her a terrible blow " with the extensive criminal prosecution that began in mid-2001 and it ended in December of last year with a ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
Cristina Vázquez spent 11 years in prison being innocent.
That resolution definitively dissociated her from the beating death of the retired Ersélides Dávalos, an acquittal also reached her friend Cecilia Rojas.
Barros, who managed to get the provincial government to give him a precarious job, said in the letter that “only God knows all the wounds that were marking your life and that today he has healed them eternally. You allowed me to be a witness to your anguish and hopes, your hopes and frustrations, your laughter and tears ”.
In addition, he recalled what "happy surprise" was when "the Supreme Court demanded your immediate release and that of Cecilia last December, admonishing the provincial justice for having unjustly condemned them . It was a very hard blow that they got here. But there were many people who helped them to regain their freedom ”.
“Social prejudices hurt you and you dreamed of a better future. We celebrated the small achievements you made in your effort for reintegration. But also your difficulties and complications, ”Barros recalled.
Viviana Cukla, who was his defender in the oral and public trial in 2010, said that in recent times Cristina Vázquez " was not very well emotionally " and recalled that in the file "there was never evidence, I know that because I was in the defense and we fight it in the oral trial. It was a very tough trial, "she said.
Cristina Vázquez, in the Posadas women's prison.
For her part, the lawyer Roxana Rivas maintained that in the file “there was not a single element that would have even made it possible to presume that she could have committed the crime. They forced her all this time to have to prove her innocence. Getting out of there with the stigma, the persecution that had affected her. The State directly withdrew and this is the consequence, ”he stated.
Vázquez was finalizing the details with a lawyer to initiate a lawsuit against the State for his unjust detention for just over 11 years.
Vázquez, Rojas and Omar Jara were arrested in 2001 for the beating murder of Ersélides Dávalos during a robbery. The judge of the case dictated the lack of merit at first, but it was a Court that considered that there was evidence to link them to the crime.
Jara and Rojas were the first to be captured. Vázquez had traveled to Buenos Aires and was only arrested in 2008 when she was working as a girl in a Recoleta bar.
In 2010 all three were sentenced to life imprisonment. The Superior Court of Justice upheld the ruling and the Court asked that it be reviewed. The sentence was not modified and the evidence presented by the defenders was no longer evaluated.
In its new intervention, in 2019, the Court ordered the release of the two women on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to link them to the homicide. Jara never appealed the ruling and that is why he remains in prison.
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