Gabriel Bermudez
08/15/2020 - 14:43
- Clarín.com
- Police
The Forensic Genetics Service of the Supreme Court of Justice will collate some "hair-like fibers" found together with Facundo Astudillo Castro's amulet (22) in the funds of the Lieutenant Origone police station. They will be compared with the "undoubted samples of genetic material from Cristina Castro Alaniz", according to what the Prosecutor's Office 1 of Bahía Blanca reported to the complaint, referring to the mother of Pedro Luro's young man. They seek to determine if they belong to the boy who has disappeared since April 30.
For this comparison, the samples will be sent to the Forensic Genetics Service of the highest court from the Chemical Laboratory of the Federal Police. The prosecutor Santiago Ulpiano Martínez, in charge of the case, had also ordered the analysis of papiloscopic fingerprints in the wooden watermelon, the size of an egg, inside which was a San Antonio vaquita.
Cristina Castro, who was present at the procedure carried out on July 31 at the police station, recognized it as a gift that Facundo's grandmother had made to her grandson and that the young man always carried in his backpack to remember her. Castro displayed a similar amulet that her eldest son, Alejandro, has and said her youngest son, Lautaro, had another, shaped like a strawberry. Inside, they all carried the message "I love you."
Both the amulet and the probable hair, along with a pack of cigarettes in a state of decomposition, were inside a transparent nylon bag that the dog Yatel, of the trainer Marcos Herrero, marked within the site. He did so after entering the redoubt, which was previously used as a dungeon, and barking repeatedly.
The test was repeated in a secluded place and the dog acted in the same way, before the bag was opened and those elements were found, in front of witnesses and Facundo's mother. For his lawyers, the finding contradicts the testimony of the officer Alberto González , who belonged to that detachment and who said he had met Facundo on the side of the road, at kilometer 750 of Route 3 and allowed the journey to Bahía Blanca to continue. .
Two photos of Facundo's DNI were found on the cell phone of one of the policemen.
The complaint requested that a luminol test be carried out to analyze possible blood stains on the site and its preservation, to which the prosecution has not yet agreed. For Martínez, the amulet is about "one more element" of the case whose belonging to the young man must be proven and does not modify his preliminary conclusion that exempts, for the moment, González from participating in the disappearance and cover-up of Facundo, which they attribute to him Castro's lawyers.
"If corroborated, it would constitute an understandable indicative data since it would locate Facundo -or at least his belongings- in Lieutenant Origone, but there are pending production measures -analysis of biometric data, DNA and testimonials- that reinforce said thesis," the prosecution reported on August 7 after the find. "For the moment, the accumulation of elements previously mentioned above the aforementioned finding continues to prevail," he said regarding the responsibility of cash.
On Wednesday the 12th, Judge María Gabriela Marrón supported Martínez's decision to reject the arrests of González and three other police officers, Mario Gabriel Sosa, Siomara Flores and Jana Curuhinca. This Friday it was learned that on the phone of the latter there were two photos, front and back, of Facundo's ID. González had declared that the boy told him that he did not have the document and that is why he took a photo of his driver's license.
Facundo Astudillo Castro, disappeared since April 30 in the area of the Villarino district, in the south of Buenos Aires.
In the same communication on the collation that the body of the Court will make, the prosecution reported that the origin of the smaller bone remains found on Friday the 7th under a cactus could not be determined, in the funds of a house located next to Side of Route 3. The site was also reached by the marking of the dog Yatel and other dogs trained by Kinetics of the Ministry of National Security and the trainer Lucas Maciel.
"For this reason, they will be sent to the Department of Forensic Anthropology of the Judicial Morgue of the Nation in order to be able to specify whether they could belong to a human being," said the Prosecutor's Office 1. During the week, it had already been reported that other larger remains found in the same place belonged to an animal.
Finally, on Friday afternoon, the witness "GA" testified before the prosecution. that, before the Buenos Aires police and the provincial justice, he had affirmed that, around June 20, he saw Facundo in the Napal neighborhood of Bahía Blanca, where the young man lived until February with his ex-girlfriend. The woman had said that she greeted him and that "Kufa" returned the nod while donning a hood.
Sources of the complaint assured that he desisted from having seen that scene and was imprecise as to the date on which the alleged encounter took place. “She said she was riding a bicycle and saw Facundo's brother-in-law with someone else, who was not her. Obviously, she got confused, ”they said. The woman had been summoned three times by the prosecution to testify, but did not connect to the virtual platform used to take the statements.
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