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One month after Gutiérrez's murder, the accused had 17 contradictions in a confrontation before the judge

2020-08-04T17:07:36.719Z


From who gave the orders to the moment and the place where Cristina's former secretary was killed, or the cleaning of the crime scene, Zaeta and Gómez declared opposite things.


Lucia Salinas

08/04/2020 - 14:00

  • Clarín.com
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A month ago, on July 4, the body of Fabián Gutiérrez - ex-secretary of Cristina Kirchner - was found lifeless, half-buried and with marked signs of violence. His was a homicide doubly aggravated by treachery, as determined by Judge Carlos Narvarte, who prosecuted Facundo Zaeta as the author of the crime and Facundo Gómez and Pedro Monzón as co-authors. The case seemed to be on track, but a confrontation between the accused exhibited  17 contradictions about the last hours of Gutiérrez's life  that had been hinted at in his statements. What there is no doubt for the Justice is that the former Secretary K was killed for economic reasons linked to the fortune he had obtained "through corruption."

In the court of El Calafate Narvarte met two of the accused, who had not seen each other since the early hours of July 3, when they disposed of the body of Fabián Gutiérrez. In its investigative statements, the justice system had detected contradictions regarding the role that each one played at the crime scene and the subsequent hours: cross-charges, description of different places on the same property, dissimilar actions, contradictory schedules.

The actions began on Thursday, July 2 at 7:30 p.m., and the judge considered that the homicide would have been committed before 11 p.m. As agreed, the former secretary of Cristina Kirchner searched for Facundo Zaeta at his home in his Amarok van, the same that hours later it would be used to move his body already lifeless. They went to the house where she had moved just 24 hours ago. It is one of the 36 properties that federal justice determined that he had purchased with illicit money from corruption.

They entered the two-story house. According to the judge, Zaeta had already  “devised the plan”: he  wanted to steal the silver that Gutiérrez believed he had kept, “money from corruption,” the young man declared in his investigation. As Clarín recounted , a study notebook seized after a raid on his house, had notes on the money laundering prosecution .

To deliver this supposed treasure, the former secretary of Cristina -the judge held- received blows to his arms, hands, torso, head and face, several lacerations , fractured his left thumb and stabbed him five times in the neck area.

The account of these events in court was contradictory on the part of the accused . Narvarte listed 17 points in which there were divergences. Here the most relevant:

Who wielded the knife?

Zaeta maintains that he and Monzón were “deceived by Facundo Gómez with the idea of ​​going to steal and that Gutiérrez had millions of dollars. I am sure that Gómez was entitled to kill Gutiérrez and used us to fulfill his objective. ” It was one of the first statements that the magistrate contrasted.

Monzón spoke of the violent night and how he had arrived at the house that belonged to Gutiérrez: “already in the front window of the house with his left hand, Facundo Zaeta was beckoning us, at that moment, he was presenting a white weapon on his hand a knife, Facundo already had his gloves on and a knife in his hand with which he took to break a mosquito net (...) I tell him I don't know you, I can't do this for you ”. According to Monzón, upon entering the house he saw “the lifeless body of Fabián Gutiérrez more precisely in the bathroom. The door was open and he was lifeless on the floor. ” Facundo “forced us to lower the body and put it in the cabin (...). In the truck, I was sitting in the front with him and Facundo had the knife on the gear lever. ”

Judge Narvarte showed them a photo, of a blade that is being surveyed. Monzón was the first to respond: “Yes, the white blade was the one that Facundo (Zaeta) had in his hand. Immediately, they gave the floor to Zaeta: “ I never had a knife in my hand. The only thing I did was get to tie Gutiérrez and blindfold him based on what Facundo Gómez proposed and wait for you and Facundo. "Neither of them changed their sayings.

Gutierrez alive or dead?

Zaeta indicated that "Facundo Gómez is taking charge of the situation: he begins to ask, distorting his voice where the money was, threatening Gutierrez with killing him and Gutierrez responding, I do not know what money they are talking about. Facundo Gómez was saying give him that I know that the You are not going to lie to me. We know each other, where is the money ".

Monzón had stated otherwise. He said that the lifeless body of Fabián Gutiérrez more was in the bathroom: "the door was open and he was lifeless . " Then he added that he saw the beaten body and that there was blood. Monzón said that the chief was Facundo Zaeta. "He forced us, he gave the orders."

Judge Narvarte asked Monzón in the confrontation about these sayings. "I stay in my posture." Then Facundo Zaeta expressed, "I am going to clarify that when they arrived at the house, Fabián Gutierrez was alive, he was tied up and blindfolded. You have to admit that. Fabian was alive." Pedro Monzón insisted, "Your honor, I maintain my position of what I said in the first in the second and in the third investigation. That is what happened." Zaeta again contradicted him "I maintain my position that Fabián Gutiérrez was tied and bandaged but alive."

Who went up to the first floor?

Facundo Zaeta reiterates that it was Gómez who gave the orders. "He told Monzón to take care of Gutierrez and I accompanied him upstairs to get the money." Monzón said he does not remember if Gómez had given the order, but that "Zaeta went upstairs to the second floor while Gómez continued in the kitchen with his cell phone."

The crossed words continued during the confrontation. Zaeta told him "Pedro, you have to remember that we were upstairs with Gómez and you were with Gutierrez downstairs that Gómez already declared that he was alive, so you don't have to keep lying". They both maintained their posture.

Gutiérrez escaped or not?

Zaeta had said that they were "upstairs and that they heard a scream, in which Monzón said that he had escaped. We returned to the ground floor and Gutiérrez had indeed escaped and hidden in the bathroom ." Without endorsing these words, Monzón defended himself and in the confrontation said: " the moment I entered the house the body was already in the bathroom. I was lying down and it did not move." Once again, the two maintained their antagonistic positions.

For a few minutes Zaeta and Monzón crossed paths in the confrontation. "Pedro, look me in the eyes: you stayed with Fabián, he was tied and blindfolded and you kept looking after him." Monzón reiterated that he maintained his position, while the other young man confronted him again: "You agreed that in another statement you said that Fabián was alive. This is going to play against you later, there is nothing more to hide." Pedro Monzón added: "I want to clarify, Facundo Zaeta, I saw you when you were suffocating Gutiérrez. The body was lifeless there in the bathroom.  I think you were acting coldly, because of anger, I don't know what to think."

Gutierrez broke the bathroom door?

It was analyzed whether or not Gutierrez was actually in the bathroom to protect himself from his attackers. Zaeta said, "Facundo Gómez knocks the door down and Gutiérrez fell to the floor, managing to open the door." Monzón said that this happened before they reached the house, "perhaps he wanted to protect himself from something from Facundo Zaeta, but I did not witness or see that at some point the door broke."

The beating of former secretary K

The questions then focused on the violence exerted on the former secretary . For Zaeta, "Monzón and Gómez beat him several times in the body, and reduced him." But again everything was denied by Monzón, who said that "did not happen at any time." It was Facundo Zaeta whom he visualized all the time. I did not see Facundo Gómez, and I did not hit him at any time. "But he added:" I remember that when the body was on the floor outside the bathroom space, that was when Facundo Gómez hit him with a stone on the head. Fabián Gutiérrez. "When asked about the other blows to the body that Cristina Kirchner's former private secretary had, he said that" Zaeta hit his head and face with a broom with the part of his head, "and all the time he denied having beaten Gutierrez.

Zaeta came out to the intersection and said, "First you say that you did not see Gómez and that later Gómez hit him with a stone on the head and another person who hits him with a broom what sense does it make to say that. I want to clarify that you and Gómez they hit him, I hit Gutierrez I tied him and I reduced him, I blindfolded him, he was alive . I told the truth, you and Gómez kept hitting him. Gómez hit him with a rock and then they suffocate him. Here you don't have to lie , remember how things went. "

Who tortured Gutiérrez?

Focused on the torture that Gutierrez suffered, it was raised that Zaeta had indicated Gómez as the person responsible for hitting "Fabián with a stone several times in the head almost until he burst it. Not calm with that, he grabbed the rope, passed it around his neck and it started. " Monzón said that the one who was doing it was Zaeta, and that the body "was not alive, it did not move."

Body transfer

The following questions pointed to the transfer of Fabián Gutiérrez's already lifeless body, and who gave the order to take the television, the stereo and other items from the former secretary's house. Monzón said that he and his friend Facundo Gómez acted under the threats of Zaeta, who also had a knife and forced them to load the body and put it in the Amarok truck. Monzón said Zaeta grabbed the rug to wrap the body and was acting too coldly. Zaeta said that "the three of us loaded the body into the truck on orders from Gómez. A 90-kilo body cannot do it alone." They each maintained their posture.

What happened in the truck?

Another contradiction in the statements occurred regarding the time when the three young people accused of the crime separated. Zaeta said that Gómez left and he and Monzón were left alone in the van with Gutiérrez's body. Monzón insisted that he was acting under threat from Zaeta , that he had a knife with him in the truck, and that they went to the cabin. Both discussed during the confrontation about who was the owner of the cabin, Zaeta told him that he had the key because Gómez had given it to him, but that the house did not belong to him but that it belonged to Gómez.

Dollars, a call, and the crime scene cleanup

Facundo Zaeta said that 90,000 pesos had been left with the body, something Monzón denied, because he said he had never seen silver. Later, Zaeta said that Monzón understood that he was afraid of Gómez, "that is why he declared everything he said and lied. He wanted to save Gómez by blaming me." Monzón immediately took the word: "I am not afraid of Gómez."

Zaeta said that the day after Gutierrez's murder he called Facundo Gómez by phone between 12 and 1 pm , and told them to get together. I also contact Monzón, and he replied "I am going to meet Facu Gomez to hide". But Monzón denied that Zaeta had contacted him . She said that he woke up at 11 in the morning, and that he had a message from Zaeta on Instagram and that he was slow to reply and that everything was going well. "

Zaeta and Monzón crossed paths regarding how Zaeta - who is 19 years old - had been able to reduce Gutierrez, a 90-kilogram person. Then the alleged co-author of the crime said he did not know how Zaeta had been able to do it: "he put something in the drink," he said. Zaeta had said that since he practiced boxing, he hit Gutiérrez twice in the jaw.

Regarding the cleaning of the crime scene, Zaeta had said that it was Gómez who left him alone with Monzón with his body to clean the house, but Monzón pointed out that they were not in charge of cleaning the place and that he does not know who did.

At the conclusion of the confrontation before Judge Narvarte, the two defendants did not say goodbye and each returned to their respective cell. Now the justice system hopes that the various experts will shed light on the events that occurred a month ago in El Calafate.

Source: clarin

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