04/29/2020 - 20:33
- Clarín.com
- Police
Neighbors from an Esquel neighborhood tried to lynch a dangerous kidnapper who received house arrest. After fleeing, the offender asked to "go back to jail . " Since no one wanted to take him, he walked to Unit 14, dependent on the Federal Penitentiary Service. In the midst of the controversy generated by the releases due to the coronavirus, the judge who granted him the benefit did not clarify whether the decision was linked to the pandemic.
The attack was of such magnitude that the police could not contain it. As part of the incidents, members of the journalistic team of the Red43 media received attacks.
The residents of the Vepam neighborhood of Esquel were the ones who found out that the criminal Pablo César Sommaruga was serving house arrest in a house in the neighborhood . He is a former clan member convicted of the 2002 Ariel Strajman extortion kidnapping.
They waited for him on the sidewalk and verbally and physically assaulted him. The number of police officers was not sufficient to control the situation in the first instance. And when the situation seemed to have calmed down, a larger group of neighbors - they had also joined the Badén neighborhood - attacked Sommaruga again.
Lynching. Thus the moment of the reaction of the neighbors was portrayed. (Red43)
The prisoner began to move away from the place along Holdich Avenue, towards the “snowman” -the emblematic monument of the city- and asked to be transferred again to the Unit. As no one agreed to move him, he finally walked back .
Pablo Cesar Sommaruga was serving a sentence in Unit 14 of Esquel. On Monday, April 27, judge José Pérez Arias, who is in charge of the National Criminal Execution Court number 1, benefited him with house arrest. In the resolution, the judge does not clarify the reasons . He only asks the "Esquel Prison Board to monitor him."
Pablo César Sommaruga -member of a middle-class relative who lived in Villa Urquiza- was part of the "Band of the patovicas" that became known in 2002 for the extortive kidnapping to which they subjected Ariel Strajman. The name of the clan is due to the fact that most of the members worked as security personnel in Buenos Aires bowling alleys.
The Sommaruga kidnapped the young man, the son of a jeweler, and asked for money in exchange for his release. They collected about $ 1,000, 400 pesos, and some jewelry . But they wanted more. During captivity they burned Strajman with cigarettes, mistreated him for his Jewish status, and to negotiate a higher ransom they cut off a little finger and sent it to his father.
The band, as determined by the investigation by Judge Claudio Bonadio and then-prosecutor Oscar Amirante, was made up of the brothers Adrián and Pablo Sommaruga, the father of both, the father's wife and a half-brother of the "patovicas", among others. In addition, Sommaruga has the antecedent of having escaped from Ezeiza prison.
In an oral trial conducted in 2004, the Federal Capital Justice imposed sentences of between 3 and 22 years, according to the participation of each member. Adrián Sommaruga was sentenced to 22 years in prison . And Pablo Sommaruga, 16 and a half years old, but his sentence was unified with another crime and that is why he had to complete 18 years.
Chubut. Correspondent.
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