Nayara Ibarbia was 17 years old when she lost her life in a violent crash. On April 26, 2017, after 22, the white Fiat Uno driven by Gustavo Fabián Villarreal – his then partner of 28 years – crashed into a municipal truck that was parked in front of a rubber shop in the Cordovan town of Monte Maíz.
Nayara suffered severe trauma. She had loss of brain mass and was hospitalized in a coma. He died nine days later. Her boyfriend barely had the occasional fracture, nothing serious.
Since then, the teenager's family reported that the crash had been provoked to kill her. After six years, the Justice gave him the reason: Villarreal was sentenced to life imprisonment.
At first, the case was labeled as "culpable homicide". In May 2020, investigating prosecutor Isabel Reyna changed the accusation to "homicide aggravated by the link and by mediating gender violence." From that moment on, Villarreal was detained in the Villa María prison.
This change was key for the Bell Ville Crime Chamber and the popular jury to make the decision to convict Nayara's then-boyfriend of femicide in a unanimous decision.
For the relatives of the young woman, the crash on Corrientes Street at 1500 in the town of the south of the province had not been an accident and they pointed to Villarreal because they knew she wanted to leave him.
The suspicion was always that that night he intentionally steered the Fiat Uno into the truck. The car was left with the front completely destroyed. Nayara was riding in the passenger seat and bore the brunt.
This is how the Fiat Uno was after ramming the truck parked in a rubber shop.
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The car was the weapon. No one will be able to give me my daughter back, but at least we have some peace in our hearts. We agree with the judgment. They were very hard years to be able to prove the murder," said Valeria Contín, Nayara's mother.
"From 2017 to 2020 Villarreal was free, he laughed at us in the street. We have gone through very ugly things," he added in a dialogue with La Voz, about the suffering of the family during all those years of waiting.
Some WhatsApp messages gave clues. According to the complaint, conversations of the couple during the last 13 days before the crash were analyzed. There were "constant circles of violence."
The mechanical expertise, in addition, confirmed that there was no braking or dodge trace at the time of the accident. Witnesses said they first heard the car speeding and then an explosion against the truck.
Nayara Ibarbia's family suspected from the outset that the crash had been intentional.
There were more clues to determine Villarreal's guilt. He had complaints from two former former partners. In addition, in the examination of psychological expertise he was defined as "a disaffected person, without any empathy with the other person, narcissistic and psychopathic".
Once the sentence was known, the plaintiff lawyer, Eugenia Fernández, emphasized the modality of femicide and warned: "It is a reference case where the context of gender violence has been demonstrated beyond the circumstances of the fact."
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