Fabian Debesa
03/05/2020 - 19:08
- Clarín.com
- Police
For the investigators of the murder of the architect platense, Guillermo Bertolotti (62) the case is almost solved. Dermotest's expertise carried out on the only one accused of the crime, his son Ignacio Bertolotti (28), was positive. That is, it was confirmed that the young man used a weapon because they found traces of gunpowder in both his hands.
La Plata Justice was already investigating a parricide. In criminal terms, a " homicide aggravated by the link ." Ignacio - known by friends and intimates as "Nacho" - fired his father and mother, Nancy Santoro (61), to empty the magazine of a 9 mm Taurus on Sunday after 10:30 pm in the marriage house, located in 29 between 40 and 41 of the La Loma neighborhood. The woman is recovering from serious injuries, but has not yet been able to testify before prosecutor Juan Martín Menucci.
The alleged attack of aggravated homicide has also been added for the alleged attack against his mother. In addition to the chemical test on the skin that confirmed the use of the gun, Menucci has other indications to support the accusation.
According to Clarín confirmed sources of the Expert Advice, the pods found in the house where they attacked the architect and his partner corresponded to the Taurus. Also the project that doctors extracted from Bertolucci's body at autopsy. A box to wrap that gun was in the Volkswagen Gol that belongs to "Nacho" Bertolotti and parked in front of the house on 29th Street the night of the tragedy.
The architect Marcelo Bertolotti (62) was killed in La Plata. His wife, teacher Nancy Santoro (61), was injured.
Another data also emerged from the laboratory: there were no remains of blood from the victims in the body and also in Ignacio Bertolotti's clothes. "Difficult that he had not been stained or splashed because he said he tried to help them ," a police source explained.
The main suspect in the murder had declared that everything happened in the middle of an attempted robbery. When the residents of La Loma called 911 alerted by the rumbling and shooting, the area was filled with patrollers in a few minutes.
The defendant, according to several witnesses, was in the street and guided the first police to the place where his parents were. Nancy Santoro, a retired teacher, was lying on her husband's body. "I was in the bathroom, I heard mom's screams. Thieves entered through the back of the house," was the first explanation he raised before the security agents.
But to an officer who practiced CPR while the ambulance arrived, the architect said: " It was my son who shot ." That testimonial contribution was included in the case and then the policewoman ratified it before Menucci.
With these elements the judge of Guarantees, Guillermo Atencio, authorized the arrest of Bertolotti son. And with the evidence that was added in the first four days of investigation, in court they believe that parricide would be clarified.
However, there remains a question that disorients those who handle the case: they do not find a reason for such a brutal attack. Bertolotti finished with seven bullet impacts and Santoro with five others.
In the raid carried out in the house where "Nacho" lives, in Villa del Plata, a residential neighborhood of Punta Lara, 15 kilometers from the capital of Buenos Aires, the Police found no evidence to support some theory on the motive of the crime. They only saw a residence decorated with modern elements and environments of "obsessive" neatness , as the fiscal assistants qualified.
The neighbors and relatives who paraded through Menucci's office agree with this description: "the boy never had problems with his family"; or "they had an excellent relationship." Others say "it is amazing that he killed his father ."
There is someone who could have the key to open the mystery. It is former teacher Nancy Santoro, who is still shocked by what happened on Sunday night. Doctors recommend that you should not be questioned by the prosecution. Menucci wants to know the mother's version, but must wait for the mood recovery.
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