Virginia Messi
03/02/2021 16:05
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 03/02/2021 4:11 PM
Between asleep, gone or sedated (it was not very clear) the lawyer Julieta Bonanno (31) began to be tried this Tuesday for the crime of the Mexican drug trafficker Rodrigo Alexander Naged Ramírez (59) -who was her client in the case "Bobinas Blancas" - and this man's son, Colombian John Naged (30), who had traveled to Buenos Aires to take care of him after Naged Ramirez suffered a stroke in prison.
The double mafia-type homicide occurred on the afternoon of June 4, 2018 in an apartment on Avenida Cabildo, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano.
Bonanno, who was at the time the hit man executed his victims, was arrested a few days later as the
mastermind of the killings.
The coronavirus pandemic delayed the trial against him for a year, but now the debate started in charge of the Federal Oral Court No. 8 of Capital ... Although with some setbacks.
Bonanno, who is against being tried for Zoom, refused to leave her cell in the Ezeiza women's prison to go to the room where remote court hearings are held.
That is why the first day of the trial, which was scheduled to start at 9:30, began a little later.
Lawyer Julieta Bonanno, after her arrest.
They ended up taking the lawyer in front of the computer by force: three prison women dressed as for war and with their faces covered stayed by her side the whole time.
They watched her so closely that, when at one point the defendant tried to stand up and leave, they reacted very quickly and forced her to take her place again.
The show went on.
As the clerk of court read the elevation in the judgment of Campana Federal Judge Adrian Gonzalez Charvay, Bonanno began to visibly nod until at one point
the back of his neck snapped back and appeared to pass out.
It was then that her lawyer, Leopoldo Murua, asked to meet with her and a prison doctor came in to check her.
After checking her pressure and pulse, the doctor ruled that the defendant was in a position to follow the hearing, so the debate was resumed.
Of course, Bonanno always seemed in the clouds, collapsed in a rustic armchair.
Belgrano's double crime: the victims were John Alexander Naged Aguilar and his father, Rodrigo Alexander Naged Ramírez (right).
She even vomited when her lawyer tried to have a private meeting with her via Zoom to ask how she was doing.
Preliminary questions
Except for the erratic behavior of the main defendant, the oral trial - whose second hearing will be next Tuesday 16 - went through the normal ways: the defense lawyer raised annulments, challenged the court and raised his incompetence.
Then the federal prosecutor Macelo Colombo answered him.
Beyond that Leopoldo Murua, representing Julieta Bonanno, questions that the trial remotely, that is only a detail compared to his other three proposals.
The first has to do with the place (jurisdiction) where the oral trial is taking place, taking into account that the drug trafficking case in which the double crime was framed is rooted in the federal justice of Bahia Blanca.
The mysterious note the lawyer had about the Mexican drug lord and his son.
Above, the suggestive words "dead" and "they are going to kill him" next to their surnames.
Despite her limited experience, and for reasons not yet explained either by her or by others, Bonanno ended up representing three Mexican citizens arrested in the framework of the "White Bobbins" case, in which some
1,900 kilos of cocaine
were seized
in July of 2017.
Most of the drug (1,300 kilos) had been packaged in a very sophisticated way to be smuggled into Canada and Spain.
The coils were in a warehouse in the Bahia Blanca industrial park that had been rented by the drug traffickers a few months before June 18, 2017, the day on which the federal judge in Campana ordered the mega-operation.
Curiously, the trial of "Bobinas Blancas" is now taking place in the Bahia Justice and even more curious is that all the accused of drug trafficking (six in total) pleaded guilty at the first hearing.
They will be condemned without even kicking.
For Murua, if the homicides are related to "Bobinas Blancas" they should be referred to the Justice of Bahia Blanca.
This is not a new proposal and, as the prosecutor Colombo recalled when answering him now, the question has already been resolved by the Criminal Cassation Chamber.
Murúa also challenged the court because on Monday he accepted the incorporation of a significant amount of evidence requested by the prosecution.
The defender argued, on the one hand, that he had not had time to see it correctly and on the other hand, he argued that a large part of this test arose from an expertise on an iPhone 8 phone of his client that he could not supervise and that was carried out in the United States outside the diplomatic channel.
Murúa protested, the prosecutor Colombo answered him, and the court decided to decide at the next hearing.
What is a true mystery is how Julieta Bonanno appeared that day, who this Tuesday seemed like a shadow.
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