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The report of a medical board again sows doubts about the death of Ceferino Nadal in Tucumán

2020-08-15T23:37:00.453Z


The study had been requested by the prosecutor Adriana Giannoni, because she considered that the results of the anatomical and pathological studies were contradictory with those of the autopsy.


08/15/2020 - 20:15

  • Clarín.com
  • Police

The analysis of a medical board raised doubts about the death of Ceferino Nadal in Tucumán, the young man who died after being reduced by the provincial police, considering that it occurred " due to natural causes . "

It was the homicide prosecutor, Adriana Giannoni, who requested that a medical board analyze the cause of death, considering that the results of the anatomical and pathological studies were contradictory with those of the preliminary autopsy performed on Nadal's body (43).

The board made up of forensics, medical examiners and two specialists in anatomopathology, one from the National University of Tucumán and another from the Padilla hospital, the main medical center in the province, analyzed the case and determined that Nadal died of natural causes .

Nadal died on June 24 after being reduced by a group of police who intercepted him in Las Heras at 100, in the Tucuman capital, when he was running after being accused of stealing a cap in a bazaar in the area.

The police report stated that he had died of cardiac arrest on the way to Padilla hospital, but the autopsy indicated that "he probably suffered violent neck compression while still alive."

The report established that due to this there was " the interruption of the normal passage of air to the airway and of the blood flow from and to the brain by an (ischemic mechanism), producing mechanical asphyxia with irreversible anoxia and death, which they will be confirmed or ruled out by pathological studies. "

Those studies, requested by Giannoni, determined that "Nadal's physical effort (when running to escape the policemen) with a previous state of agitation and excitement, his previous heart disease and vasovagal discharge or hypoxia due to neck and chest compression, constituted a suitable terrain for the occurrence of cardiac arrest, either per se or due to previous arrhythmia ".

The report also considers that Nadal died on the way to the hospital, where he arrived with a fractured sternum and five ribs; injuries that would correspond to the resuscitation maneuvers that had been previously practiced.

It was due to this lack of precision that Giannoni summoned the medical board .

The lawyer Benito Allende, who represents Nadal's wife, questioned the measures taken by the prosecution since he considers that Nadal died of asphyxiation as a result of the actions of the police.

In addition, he compared the situation with the case of George Floyd ?, the African-American who died after a policeman in Minneapolis, in the United States, immobilized him by pressing his neck with one knee, which generated a wide repercussion of the case at the national level.

With information from Télam.

Source: clarin

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