12/26/2020 5:58 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 12/26/2020 5:59 PM
Ricardo Emanuel Papadopulos,
the 21-year-old arrested for running over and killing a 4-year-old boy and seriously injuring his mother in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Flores,
never had a driving license since "he did not know how to write or read."
This was revealed by his lawyer Roberto Herrera.
“He told me they missed it.
When they asked him to take the psycho-technical test, he couldn't draw because he didn't go to school and he can't write or read.
They dismissed him for that and
sent him to the psychologist ”.
However, Herrera stated that this "will not change his situation."
"It is not typified that for not having a record, he will have another qualification or another sentence," he remarked.
In dialogue with
A24
, the lawyer acknowledged that his client's situation "is complicated" and specified that "the aggravation that he has is due to not having stayed in the place to assist the people he had run over."
Ricardo Emanuel Papadopulos turned himself in after 9 days on the run.
photos Enrique García Medina
Regarding the delays of the young man to turn himself in, Herrera said that Papadopulos "was a fugitive because he was very afraid of not having a record" and assured that the detainee did not know the fatal "outcome" of the accident.
"It came out the next day when it came out in the media," he said.
For his part, Rubén Papadopulos, the young man's father, explained that his son went to take the registry but "they did not give it to him.
He had the will to take the registry and it is not his fault
."
"I agree that I could not drive, I did not come to defend my son, there is God who is going to do his justice, and justice," he added.
The man, the owner of the vehicle and who was detained for five days until he was released last Thursday, asked for "forgiveness" from the family of the victims and assured that "it was an accident that could happen to anyone."
"What is happening is terrible, we ask the family for forgiveness, to give it the strength to move forward. My son was driving, he
did not steal, he did not kill
a little angel of God
with a revolver
,"
the man
told
C5N
at the door of the Palermo mayor's office where her son is detained.
"It was not easy to surrender after hearing that there was an accident and that a little angel of God died. It is not easy for me, nor for my son, this can happen to anyone, a gypsy or a Creole," he added.
Regarding the sinister road, Papadopulos senior admitted that his son "was a little exceeded (speed)", but assured that "a truck with a trailer that crossed the red light took his vision away."
The car that Ricardo Emanuel Papadopulos was driving was found in a parking lot in Ciudadela.
"At first glance, I see that the traffic light is not right for the truck,
it blocked his vision
and there is no traffic light for pedestrians on that corner either; my son was not coming very strong because to be able to circulate one must go 40 or 50 (kilometers per hour), I calculate that, because two motorcycles came one meter away, "he said.
"My son passes the truck and meets the people who were crossing, it is not that he did not brake, the justice will determine it, but the truck took his vision and he is surprised when he has people on top and he cannot do anything. I'm not trying to defend it, but it is what you see in the videos, "he added.
Rubén said that after the incident his son called him "shocked", "he began to cry and did not know" anything else about him.
Asked about why the young man was driving without registration, he said that "he is a boy who is 21 years old and does not think like you or me. Boys do worse things than driving without registration, I do not want to argue; I came to tell the truth, I came to show my face, I didn't do it before out of respect for the victims. "
"My son does not drink alcohol or drugs, he congregates in the Christian Church of God, we are evangelicals, and like every young boy he was able to get away a little and make mistakes," said the man.
And he closed: "I presented myself, my son appeared and God and justice will do justice, we are not criminals."