Femicide of Paola Tacacho: "This is a nightmare", the pain of the family and the last threat of the murderer

Natalia Iocco

11/11/2020 3:37 PM

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Updated 11/11/2020 3:37 PM

"I think this is a nightmare", manages to say Mariela Tacacho (51) with the strength that remains.

He is in Salta, back at his house,

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In Tucumán, the outrage over femicide is so great that it resulted in a debate that runs through all the powers of the State.

For his family,

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In Salta and in Tucumán Paola was also known as Estefanía, by her middle name.

"Pao" or "Estefi" appears in the present, nobody names it in the past.

As untimely was his death as the outrage surrounding his case.

She was 32 years old and was an English teacher.

He was the

She suffered it for five years until, on Friday, October 30, he killed her with six stab wounds in the center of San Miguel de Tucumán.

Mauricio Parada Parejas had been her student in 2015, since then he

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So much so that Paola made 13 criminal complaints, a civil lawsuit and her family, who also suffered threats, added another four in Salta.

"They laughed at her. At the police station they minimized what Paola was going through. 'Oh, is it on the Internet? Nothing happens', they told her when she was going to report. They minimized the risk my cousin was in.

did not want to worry us, we did not know everything that was happening ", says Nilda Serpa (33), Paola's cousin. 

Nilda lived with her cousin until she went to study for a Bachelor of English at the National University of Tucumán.

"She did not leave the door untouched, she went everywhere.

 and she did it alone, without saying anything to her family, only with the help of her friends," Nilda is distressed.

Of the 13 complaints that Paola made, none went to trial.

Despite the fact that she obtained a restriction of approach due to the threats she received, her harasser never respected them and no State agency intervened to protect her.

Francisco Pisa the questioned judge of Tucumán

This lack of response led to a series of

in charge of an investigating court that denied that the only cause that advanced (due to the breach of the perimeter) went to trial: it dismissed Parada Parejas and filed The file.

That action earned him

They have not yet decided if they will make up the jury of prosecution to define their sanction.

It is that to evade those demands, Pisa presented the resignation tied to the approval of his retirement.

and allow him to continue in office until the retirement benefit is granted, or to reject it so that the Legislative Power can advance with the Jury and the dismissal.

While that political dispute rages, Pisa continues to serve in office.

March in Tucumán for the murder of Paola Tacacho.

Photo video capture.

The social questioning by the judicial inaction was so great that it resulted in

to analyze what happened to each of the 13 files and why they did not advance.

Also what happened to the agencies that denied Paola care.

Although they did not announce any measure or resolve - yet - any sanction,

accessed the reports of the

and the

, where Paola also attended to ask for help.

In the

 indicated that Paola Tacacho went to their offices in April 2016 to "consult" regarding the "acts of violence" of which she was a victim.

From their records it appears that they resolved that hers was 

so they directed her to file a complaint at the police headquarters."

Why?

Because the violence that Paola suffered from her stalker did not fit within the parameters established "by the Provincial Law No. 7,264" which orders this office to "offer information to people who are experiencing

.

Domestic, inside your home, by a relative and not on public roads by a stranger. 

So it was so that Paola withdrew

.

"They were death threats. My cousin trusted her lawyer. She trusted the Justice and the offices of attention to victims of gender violence, now, tell me how do you work? That is the gender perspective they have. They created offices, They filled those positions with

It is as if they were not talking about people, lives, victims. They speak as if they were machines: until here I take care of you, go no more, "Nilda is indignant.

The Women's Office also presented its report and said that its functions include "holding different training workshops to

."

One of the captures made of the threats in the social networks of Mauricio Parada Parejas against Paola Tacacho.

Thus, they reported that between 2013 and 2020 they held 185 workshops, an average of two per year.

They also recognized that since the province incorporated the Micaela Law, they have done another 17 trainings.

It was in May, after Tucumán - the last province in the country to do so - finally joined. 

Paola went to the OM in March 2018 and they reported that despite the fact that "attention to the public is not among the functions entrusted to the OM", the person who attended her contacted the "Center for Assistance in Family Violence of the Ministry of Security in order to find another way for Paola. "

The answer was the same: they

Those complaints ended in

"It was

. Subtle but permanent. He knew all her schedules, everything she did. What she suffered in the end was a mix between minimizing it and a very big denial. She could not put together her project of life here in Tucumán. When she went on a trip she was happy because here she was afraid, "says Marcelo Rodríguez,

and who was summoned to testify on several occasions.

Mauricio Parada Parejas used to wait seated for Paula Tacacho, according to the victim's friends.

"I accompanied her to talk to

, they knew what he was doing to him. We went to ask them earnestly to help us, not to make a scandal. They have gotten rid of the problem with all this because they did not want to take charge of this sick person in his family ", says Marcelo.

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Requests so that the investigation is not closed

On October 24 at 5:35 p.m., six days before she was murdered,

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From a fake email, the young student received an email with an unintelligible but disturbing image.

The last threat that Paola Tacacho received six days before the femicide.

"It was a photo of an asteroid hitting the planet and a message threatening her. She sent it to a lawyer that she hired to help her and she

. No one identified that she was in danger, not even the agencies that know. They would have to be prepared to tell her what to do, how to act. Nothing.

"Nilda laments.

Through their lawyers, Paola's family requested evidence before the Carlos Sales prosecutor's office, which has the case for the femicide followed by suicide in their hands.

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In a request presented by the lawyer Valeria Madrazo, the family asked the prosecutor to carry out a search of Mauricio Parada Parejas' home because there could be elements "that indicate that he was able to act with the

" ;

that they seize and analyze the cell phone, mail and electronic devices of the femicide;

and that all "documentation that is of interest to the cause" is seized.

Paola and her friends on several occasions went to the relatives of Parada Parejas to ask for help,

former contractor of the State, former member of the directive committee of the San Martín de Tucumán club and with

For this reason, the victim's family wants him

, as does the psychiatrist who signed his medical history diagnosing him with "schizoid personality disorder", stating that his pathology was "permanent and irreversible."

The prosecution has not yet given answers about the request, despite the family's claim: "We want

Those who should have taken care of her and those who did nothing to help her, "Nilda asked.

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