02/22/2021 12:57 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/22/2021 12:57 PM
Matías Ezequiel Martínez (25), the policeman arrested for the femicide of Úrsula Bahillo (18) in Rojas, was sentenced this Monday to four years in effective prison for an act of gender violence committed in 2017 against a former partner.
The verdict was handed down this morning by the judge at Correctional 1 of Junín, Héctor Alberto Barbera, and the sentence coincided with what the prosecutor María Fernanda Sánchez had requested last Thursday in the framework of the case for the act of violence suffered by Belén Miranda (27).
Martínez was convicted of the crimes of "
minor aggravated injuries in competition with aggravated threats
" and these four years in prison will be unified with the eventual single sentence of prison or life imprisonment that awaits the police in case of being tried and convicted of femicide by Úrsula.
This trial was held in the Junín courts, where the only statement was that of the victim Miranda and where Martínez himself acknowledged the fact when the charges were read to him.
Claim for justice in Rojas.
Photo: Lucia Merle.
Judicial spokesmen told
Télam
that the verdict and sentence were notified electronically to the parties, so that today the policeman was not transferred to the courts, as was the case on the day of the debate.
Miranda herself - who had even had contacts with Úrsula before she was murdered - told in various media about the violent relationship she had with Martínez four years ago, accused him of being a "protégé" of her fellow police officers and recalled the day that he beat her and threatened her with a gun.
Recalling the episode that occurred in 2017, he pointed out that Martínez arrived one noon to get his lunch and when he realized that one of her children had wet the bed, he began to scream and question why the boys were not in their beds, to which she replied that if she didn't like it, leave.
According to Belén, Martínez's response was to
grab her by the neck and throw her against a wall and then against the bed
, and once she was on the floor, he pulled out his service weapon and threatened to kill her or commit suicide, while simulating with the gun .
Belén Miranda.
AP Photo / Natacha Pisarenko.
"Hopefully he will rot in jail for trash and have screwed up so many, you're going to die there, Matías Martínez entered," Miranda wrote on his Twitter account last Thursday at the end of the debate.
Martínez, a Buenos Aires police officer who was on leave with a psychiatric file, is being held at the Junín Penitentiary Warden, accused of the crime of "
femicide aggravated by treachery and cruelty
."
Úrsula was found on Monday, February 8, around 8:30 p.m., stabbed to death among some grasslands in a field located at the height of the Guido Spano area, about 13 kilometers from Rojas, in the northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, and in that In the same place, the police arrested Martínez, wounded.
March in Rojas for the femicide of Úrsula Bahillo.
Photo: Lucia Merle.
The femicide was discovered after a 911 alert from an uncle of the accused, who said that he believed that his nephew had killed a young woman because he confessed in a call that he had "
sent a shit
."
Upon arrival at the scene, the Police found the murdered girl and the man wounded, since after the crime the murder weapon was stuck in the abdomen, inside his car.
Martínez tried to escape on foot through the grasslands, but was cut down and detained.
Úrsula had denounced her ex-boyfriend on several occasions for threats and gender violence and even the policeman had a perimeter restriction measure that he had violated two days before the crime.
In the last ten years in Argentina there is an average of one femicide every 30 hours.
According to statistics from the Office of Domestic Violence of the Supreme Court, in 2018 alone there were 278. Most murders occur in the homes of victims and are committed by partners or exes.
Where to call
Line 144
Care for women in situations of violence.
Line 137
Attention to Victims of Family Violence.
911 Emergencies
EMJ
Look also
Ursula's femicide: life, dreams and nightmares of the young woman who got tired of warning that they were going to kill her
Úrsula's femicide pleaded guilty to another cause of gender violence against an ex
