Guillermo Villarreal
04/27/2021 3:43 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/27/2021 3:43 PM
He did not serve three weeks on probation and Nicolás Caputo, who had already served five of the eight and a half years in prison to which he had been sentenced for various hate attacks as a member of a neo-Nazi group in Mar del Plata, was
denounced for threatening and physically attacking a young woman
who at the trial that convicted him had testified against him.
The Federal Prosecutor's Office that investigated the attacks committed by this gang between 2013 and 2016 was notified of the complaint that was filed at
the Women's Police Station,
and now the Justice must decide
whether to review the conditional release.
Caputo, 33, was detained for 5 years in the Federal Penitentiary Complex of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and on April 4 he
was released with the placement of an electronic anklet
, monitored by the Directorate of Assistance to People Under Electronic Surveillance dependent of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
One of the victims of the neo-Nazi attacks in Mar del Plata.
"Threats and intimidation"
The complaint, which accompanied the
Assembly for a Society Without Fascism
, led to the opening of an investigation for
minor injuries and a restriction of approach.
As reported from the Assembly, a year ago
Caputo managed to contact the young woman through social networks
that she administered from prison using false profiles.
"He was persuasive and skillful in gaining trust with a clear intention to change his statement, little by little the strategy was changing to move to
threats and intimidation,
" they said in a statement.
The members of the Assembly report that on Friday the 23rd, under threats, Caputo summoned her to an apartment that he had rented in Mar del Plata and there he
attacked her verbally and physically,
"trying to hang her with the bathroom curtain, while telling her that the he was going to hurt without leaving marks, so he wouldn't harm his cause. "
"However, in the fight,
the young woman received blows to her face that left bruises
and Caputo, defense wounds, which she gave him to save her life. Before the cries for help and the uproar generated by the attacker for fear of being seen in that situation he
fled through the first floor window stealing the victim's cell phone,
"they said in the statement.
"Exemplary conduct 10"
Upon granting him conditional release, the judges of the Federal Oral Court of Mar del Plata analyzed that
Caputo was rated with "exemplary conduct 10"
, had not received disciplinary sanctions in the last quarter and that the Correctional Council of the Federal Penitentiary Complex was issued in a positive way around to the request when assessing "their chances of labor reintegration" and a
"prognosis of social reintegration that could be considered favorable
".
“Since his arrest, he has shown a willingness to excel, has requested his incorporation into the Voluntary Early Execution Regime, which allowed him to go through the different phases of the prison treatment program,
has exemplary behavior
and is weighted with a good concept depending on the stage of the progressivity regime to which it has been inserted.
He has also made the most of the educational offer that was provided to him ”, judges Roberto Falcone -who was part of the trial that convicted him- and Machado Pelloni evaluated.
The federal prosecutor's office had ruled in favor of granting conditional release, but
the complaint represented by the Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA) had opposed.
He understood that Caputo “together with his group of belonging,
has besieged the city of Mar del Plata and any minority contrary to its ideology,
which it has frightened for years and that hatred has been the engine that drove all kinds of violent acts. and proven discrimination ”.
They said from the DAIA that this
"would bring along with their freedom an enormous danger for Mar del Plata society
.
"
Hate crimes
Caputo was sentenced in 2018 for “organizing a group destined to impose its ideas and fight those of others by force or fear, in ideal competition with the crime of belonging to an organization and
carrying out propaganda based on ideas or theories of superiority of a race ,
religion or ethnic group, in real competition with the crimes of serious injuries aggravated by having been committed with the premeditated participation of two or more people, minor injuries, threats and damages; all of them aggravated by having been committed by
persecution or hatred of a race, religion or nationality
”.
At the trial, the Mar del Plata Court - made up of Falcone, Mario Portella and Bernardo Bibel -
also sentenced Olexandr Levchenko, a native of Ukraine and recently expelled from the country, to 9 and a half years in prison;
Alan Olea and Gonzalo Paniagua to 9 years in prison.
Also to Franco Martín Pozas at 4 years and six months;
Giuliano Spagnolo to 5 years and six months and Marcos Caputo, due to his condition as a minor at the time of perpetuating the attacks, to a 2-year tutelary treatment.
The penalties
were confirmed by the Federal Chamber of Cassation in February last year
.
Faced with the attack on the witness, the Assembly for a Society Without Fascism considered that
"the psychopathic behavior of Nicolás Caputo represents a threat
to his recent victim, to his environment and the rest of society."
"He has made it clear that not only does he not regret or feel remorse for his crimes, but he is willing to continue to do harm."
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