He died after falling from a fourth floor, but his family denounces a femicide

03/15/2021 8:51 AM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 03/15/2021 8:51 AM

Adriana Chiaverano (61) thinks about that day.

Also in those who come.

This Monday marks one year of the death of his daughter, Pilar Riesco (21).

It points against Justice and demands that what happened from a gender perspective be investigated.

"

Who are they trying to fool that my daughter committed suicide? They killed my daughter and I'm going to prove it.

They made me believe, in the first instance, that my daughter had killed herself. Do you know what it is for a mother To think that your daughter committed suicide? Do you have an idea of ​​the pain it can cause you? It breaks your soul. I was devastated, I am devastated, but I am not going to stop, "Adriana gets angry.

On March 15, 2020, just two days before the strictest quarantine was decreed in the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, her daughter Pilar died.

It was when he fell from a balcony on the fourth floor of Calle Alagón 305, in Nueva Pompeya.

The first hypothesis pointed to a suicide due to the testimony of his partner, Patricio Leonel Reynoso (31).

That was her apartment and, according to her statement, the young woman "threw herself" around 4.30 pm in the middle of an argument.

The claim, in Congress.

However, the case was classified as "

investigation of doubtful death and suspicion of criminality

" due to the injuries that were detected in the autopsy: Pilar defended herself, she had marks compatible with violence, on her wrists and on her neck.

They immediately pointed out to her partner, who was a decade older than her, previous complaints for violent attitudes and in causes related to the sale of narcotics.

In addition, they found scratches on his arms compatible with defense marks.

The suspect, identified as Patricio Leonel Reynoso (31),

spent 45 days in detention

by order of the 51st National Criminal and Correctional Judge, Graciela Angulo de Quinn.

They accused him, at that time, of "

aggravated homicide for mediating gender violence

."

However, Chamber V of the National Criminal and Correctional Appeals Chamber considered that there was insufficient merit to substantiate either the prosecution or the preventive detention.

That is how they decided to release him.

Pilar Riesco was 21 years old.

"The Chamber relied on a single testimony. That of a friend of this person, with whom they had known for more than ten years. But it did not take into account the rest of the information that is dumped in the file. And it is not that I invented it, I could see all this as any prosecutor could have seen it. But they did not, I think they did not read the case. They did not see the autopsy, the expert reports or the telephone records ", regrets Adriana, who in addition to being a teacher She is a lawyer in the civil jurisdiction.

And he continues: "My daughter was fine, perfect. She had gone through horrible moments, but now she

had a new job, she had signed up back in college

. They wanted to cast her as a suicide, they did not take into account that he spent three years persecuting her, nor that he is an addict. They investigated my daughter because she was hospitalized, but did they investigate him? And the girls that my daughter told them that he forced her to use? ". 

Judicial sources told

Télam

that Judge Angulo de Quinn requested that "experts from the Special Prosecutor's Unit for Violence against Women (UFEM) collaborate in the investigation of the case."

Anyway, as they indicated, for the moment "they collaborate in the cause but they did not delegate the investigation."

Another of the questions raised by the family points to the lack

of a gender perspective

in the research process.

It was not taken into account, according to the complaint, that Pilar started the relationship with this man before reaching the age of 18.

Neither the history of violence nor the previous harassment reported by her friends.

They were not summoned to testify, although they were offered for the complaint, with the intention of reconstructing the

"toxic" and "violent" link

that existed between them.

This Monday there will be a mass in Almagro, one year after the event.

"My daughter was lying on the ground and it took him more than half an hour to come down to see her. Neither he nor the alleged witness, who is the one who said she saw how she threw herself alone, called 911, for example. Cell phone antennas locate her 20 blocks from that place. She said she was on a terrace 36 meters away seeing everything, after she was with her friend. But we found phone calls between them. Why did she call him? ", Adriana speculates, loaded with anger and data that he collected, meticulously, from the file.

"A policeman stated that a witness saw that they were struggling on the balcony, but they did not hold him and they did not take into account the testimony of the policeman who told it. Why would he lie? Nor did they look for the witness. There are many things that do not close," he concluded.

This Monday, at 7 pm, the family will

celebrate a mass

in memory of "Pilu" in the Basilica María Auxiliadora y San Carlos, in Almagro.

"There she was baptized, took her first communion and always told me that she was going to get married there. She could not keep it because of a miserable man," said the mother of the young woman, who was studying a Bachelor of Human Resources Administration at the University of the Merchant navy.

For those who wish to attend, the family asks that they bring a donation of non-perishable food to make on behalf of Pilar and "help those who need it most."

"It's a very hard time for all of us," says Adriana and closes: "I'm not going to stop, this has to change. They wanted this to be nothing, for my daughter to be one more. But no, I'm going to go against everyone. We live in an abandoned country in this sense, we are fighting against windmills, but

I for Pilar, everything

".

In the last ten years in Argentina there is an average of one femicide every 30 hours.

According to statistics from the Office of Domestic Violence of the Supreme Court, in 2018 alone there were 278. Most murders occur in the homes of the victims and are committed by partners or exes.

Where to call

Line 144

Care for women in situations of violence.

Line 137

Attention to Victims of Family Violence.

911 Emergencies

EMJ

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