07/28/2020 - 9:22
- Clarín.com
- Police
Cristina Castro, the mother of Facundo Astudillo Castro (22), who has not been heard from for 90 days after leaving her home in Pedro Luro, asked that the police "hand over the body" of her son "to be as be ", since after so long he does not believe that he is alive.
After confirming that she had a communication with the president of the Nation Alberto Fernández and with the provincial governor Axel Kicillof, the woman assured that she is "convinced" that the police "have lied and put false witnesses" and that "they will be the ones who They will tell where "Facundo's body is," because at this point I don't think he is alive. "
"They have to hand over the body to me, wherever I am and wherever I am," Cristina Castro claimed in statements to Radio Provincia.
Regarding the conversation she had with President Fernández and with Kicillof, the woman said that they were "very predisposed to try to help us and find my son soon and find the disappearance soon."
Facundo Astudillo Castro (22), the young man who disappeared in the south of Buenos Aires.
In addition, Castro explained his questions to the Bahía Blanca federal prosecutor who is in charge of the file, Santiago Ulpiano Martínez, of whom he said that "he wants to divert the investigation."
"I am certain that my son disappeared between (the towns of) Mayor Buratovich and Lieutenant Origone," said the woman, who claimed that "the Villarino police in Buenos Aires have to return my son and they are the ones who have to be detained and that is what I have demanded of the President as Facu's mother and as an Argentine. "
The family hypothesis
Facundo's family is convinced that the young man was the victim of an "enforced disappearance" and that at least nine Buenos Aires police officers deployed a cover-up plan in "five clear stages", which included "delays in raking" and the incorporation of " false clues and witnesses tricks "to the cause.
The case, which is being investigated by the Federal Justice of Bahía Blanca on the suspicion that Buenos Aires police could intervene in the disappearance of the 22-year-old, this week led to half a dozen rakes carried out by more than 200 agents of federal security forces. , in which trained dogs also intervened in search of people.
For the Astudillo Castro family, the most important advance related to these rakes occurred between Wednesday and Thursday, when the dogs provided by the trainer Marcos Herrero "marked" one of the police motives assigned to the police detachment of Lieutenant Origone before " odoriferous essence "by Facundo.
The search for Facundo Astudillo Castro was in the hands of federal forces from the Bonaerense departure.
In parallel, lawyers Leandro Aparicio and Luciano Paretto, who represent Cristina Castro, mother of the missing young man, challenged federal prosecutor Santiago Ulpiano Martínez, against what they consider to be "extremely slow" with which the investigation and "partiality" are proceeding.
The case began on April 30 when Facundo left Pedro Luro's house to go see his girlfriend in Bahía Blanca, since they had argued and were trying to reconcile. Facundo left in full quarantine for the coronavirus without the approval of his mother, who disagreed with the relationship he had with that girl.
Shortly after 13, the young man contacted his mother and said: "Mom, you have no idea where I am, you will not see me again."
Raking by Facundo Astudillo Castro on RN 3 and Salitral de la Vidriera, on the edge of the roundabout with National Route 22 and the railroad tracks.
That communication is believed to have occurred when he had already been detained by police officers who saw him walking down the road and issued an act for violating the quarantine. In statements to Télam, Aparicio considered that the Facundo case is "in a clear forced disappearance of a person in the middle of the quarantine phase" and that, in his opinion, there are "five stages" of cover-up in the investigation.
"The first occurs on the day he is arrested and disappeared, on April 30, at the time when his mother is called. The second takes place in the first days of June, when a friend first wants to do the He denounces, they tell him that the mother has to go, but thanks to the insistence, they take it. The police officers who take the complaint are from Pedro Luro and wrote it on a paper of rotisserie, "he explained.
"The third stage, the clearest that we could see, occurs on June 15 when a rake should have been carried out that is not done due to climatic reasons. In addition, the police begin to press and threaten different witnesses, whom they want take to the track that those responsible for his death are the relatives of his ex-girlfriend, "he said.
´The search for Facundo includes a long section of RN 3 and its surroundings, between Pedro Luro and Bahía, about 120 kilometers.
Two days later, on Wednesday, June 17, Cristina Castro went with her lawyer Paretto to the town of Mayor Buratovich to supervise an operation that was still being carried out by the police, but "they are prevented from doing so by five Buenos Aires patrols who block her entrance to town. "
For this date, also, Aparicio denounced that the police "began to incorporate false witnesses" and it was what led Facundo's mother to think that "something was very wrong, so the complaint for forced disappearance was carried out" .
For the lawyer, a quarter of the cover-up occurred between June 26 and July 6, with the alleged intervention of the Buenos Aires police "searching in Bahía Blanca for Facundo, with false leads and trick witnesses who appear and contradict each other" .
The fifth and final stage - according to the plaintiff's lawyer - occurred in recent weeks, when the file was already in the possession of federal prosecutor Ulpiano Martínez.
Marcos Herrero and his dog Yanel, with whom he looks for traces of Facundo Astudillo Castro.
"It is a maneuver by which we have denounced the prosecutor Ulpiano Martínez, who irregularly introduces a supposed person who had taken Facundo to Bahía Blanca. It was verified that that person had not taken Facundo anywhere," he said.
The family is convinced that nine police officers from the province participated in the enforced disappearance and cover-up of the case : the two chiefs of the Pedro Luro police station, four from the Mayor Buratovich detachment, two from Lieutenant Origone and a last policeman who presented himself. in the last days and said that he had seen the young man in Bahía Blanca.
"This is a disappearance in the context of a pandemic, there is a decree that authorizes that if you walk down the street they keep you, take you and make you a protocol that in this case has not been followed," he said.
