Doubts and contradictions in the statements about the death of Fabián Gutierrez

Lucia Salinas

07/05/2020 - 15:09

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A set of depositions are analyzed by Judge Carlos Narvarte to determine the motive of the murder of Fabian Gutierrez and how many people participated in it. Among the elements that the judge has are two houses with a few blocks away, a truck with "signs of struggle", a sheet stained with blood and, of course, the body, with a cut in the throat, a strong blow on the head and one on one eye. 

The testimonial made known by Clarín, by Facundo Zaeta (19),  exposed to Justice the last hours in which he saw Fabián Gutiérrez alive. She looked for him at her home in her Amarok truck, they went to buy some things at a market located on the main avenue of El Calafate and went to the former secretary's house. There, after a brief tour of it, they had a champagne: "A relationship with the right to touch , we were getting to know each other, Fabián treated me very well," said the main accused.

A phone call interrupted the moment. On the other side, someone was demanding dollars from Gutiérrez and at around 10:30 p.m., once again in the Amarok truck, he took Zaeta to his house, a cabin that he rented in a farm area, where on Saturday morning the Justice found a 50-inch television, a stereo, cigars, and alcoholic beverages that were owned by Cristina Kirchner's former secretary.

They tried to clean up the scene, but it was not enough. Judge Narvarte entered the property that young Zaeta rented. The body was not where one of the confessions had said. They toured the courtyard of the property. A bloody sheet alerted the Criminology staff and underneath a tree the work on the ground stood out: Fabián Gutiérrez, dressed, was buried.

The timetable window is a piece of information to be reconstructed. Zaeta told the Justice that at 22:30 it was the last time he saw Gutiérrez. Facundo Gómez Chávez, 20, testified on Friday about the last hours of Gutiérrez. "I know Fabián but I never had a deal with him, what I must say is that I am a friend of Facundo, whom I have known for a long time, we shared common friends, together, we went out on a motorcycle."

This is how Gomez described his relationship with Zaeta, the most complicated on the record. He rebuilt Thursday night, the same night Zaeta had been with the former private secretary first on his property. In his testimonial statement, Gómez continued: "We went to his (Facundo's) house with another friend Pedro Monzón (another of the detainees), whom I went to look for on Avenida 17 de Octubre." From there, he said that they went to a kiosk and bought alcoholic and soft drinks.

"We went to Facu's house in Soberana," he said, it is the area where the cabin is located, Punta Soberana in the tourist village. They arrived at the place "type 23:00, we had gathered to eat." According to his account, they stayed there, in a barbecue area during all that time, and left the place around 1.15 approximately.  "We only took a fernet ... everything was normal," he said.

Gómez Chávez indicated that in all those hours they shared , Facundo "never named Fabián Gutiérrez", but he provided a piece of information: "Now that I remember, type 04:37 I received a phone call from Facu's girlfriend, which I did not answer because I I fell asleep. " On Friday morning, he returned that call to see if he needed anything when he found the missed call. "He said he just wanted to know if he was still with Facu, to which I replied no."

The friends had said goodbye at 1:15, according to the testimonial statement. By 04:37 Zaeta's girlfriend had not found him.

At this point, Gómez Chávez indicated that they had no knowledge that Zaeta was related to Gutiérrez, "at no time did he pronounce it." 

In the string of testimonial statements, the first that Judge Narvarte took on Friday afternoon when the 24-hour search for the ex-Kirchner secretary had not yet been completed, that of Matías Lescano Chiocchio is also included (29). She was one of the people who helped Fabián Gutiérrez's family and friends to find his whereabouts, when the family filed a police complaint for his disappearance. They had found her cell phone in a kind of vacant lot, and clothes stained with blood in her house. 

Lescano said that on Friday around 12:57, when he was at his house, he received a WhatsApp message from a friend - whose last name was Wilson-, "asked me if I knew anything about Fabi (Gutiérrez) -, why the family was concerned that the van was outside the home and the dog inside the home. " Given the scenario reported, they coordinated for their friend to look for him, something that according to their account occurred around 1:20 pm and both went to Fabián Gutiérrez's house.

While they were making that trip, not very long, Lescano wrote to Fabián Gutiérrez, and also called him on his cell phone. "The messages came and the phone rang, but I had no answer." Upon arriving at the former secretary's house, a house that he had rented but had recently returned to live in, "we knocked on the door and threw stones at the ceiling but we had no response."

It was there when they noticed that "the truck was strange, as if there had been a struggle or something in the part of the sheet, that is to say, the truck was dirty with mud or dirt, marks such as rubbing were reflected in that dirt." Judge Narvarte confirmed that this van, the same one they used to transport the body, had "signs of a fight, a broken mirror." In the Amarok box they took Fabián already lifeless, to the cabin where they finally buried him.

"We looked in and saw a jean between the passenger seat and the armrest, it was black, one of the legs was normal and the other one was turned". There they stayed for a while and then they went to a gym thinking that he could be there, although everything was already strange. A phone call or text message, he can't quite pin down, was what he received after Lescano: "It was Kevin, to meet us at Fabián's house, to see if we could wake him up "

Then it was when "Wilson opens the truck in the passenger side and it turns out that it was unlocked", there they noticed that "the jean was gone". Something happened in that interim: Lescano declared that he saw that the mirror "on the left side was broken, broken, there was nothing plastic. ”For him, the mirror" did not break in that place because "there was nothing left."

Nicolás Revello report from Santa Cruz.