04/09/2021 13:10
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Police
Updated 04/09/2021 1:10 PM
The Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 4 of the Matanza, made up of judges Pablo Gayol, Franco Fiumara and Nicolás Grappasonno, sentenced
four members of the gang that attacked a San Justo police station
to 50 years in prison
, which occurred on 30 April 2018 in La Matanza, where they wanted to release a detainee, they shot each other with four policemen and left one of the officers paraplegic.
The four sentenced to
half a century in prison
for the
attempted murder of the police officers
are Leandro David Aranda (25) -the prisoner who was to be rescued-, his wife Zahira Ludmila Bustamante (22), Tomás Axel Sosa (22) and Sebastián Ariel Rodríguez (42), while the defendant Gonzalo Fabián D'Angelo (25) was
sentenced to 8 years in prison
as a secondary participant and the lawyer
Leticia Analía Tortosa (41)
, to 3 years in conditional prison but only for the crime of facilitation of evasion.
Appealing to the sum of sentences, the prosecutor Ariel Speranza Rossi had requested a sentence of 50 years in prison for six of the accused.
Meanwhile, for the eighth defendant, Bruno Damián Postigo Marullo (22), had requested a 6-year sentence for aggravated cover-up.
Rocío Villarreal, visited by the Buenos Aires authorities after the attack.
The classification chosen by the prosecutor for all the defendants to whom he asked for 50 years was that of "
aggravated homicide by the premeditated participation of two or more persons 'criminis causae', against a member of the public forces and for having been committed by means of the use of firearms - reiterated in four occasions - in degree of attempt and illegal possession of war weapon, which really compete with each other, all of which ideally concurs with the crime of aggravated evasion in degree of attempt
".
In her plea, Speranza Rossi spoke of
a fact of "institutional gravity"
, which included "planning" and a "division of roles and tasks."
The two main accused and indicated as the organizers of the coup are Aranda and his wife Bustamante, who, according to the representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office,
went to rescue her husband with a baby of a few months
.
Sentences of 50 years in prison for 4 members of the gang who wanted to take over a police station to free a prisoner.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger
Aranda had been imprisoned since 2017 as accused of having committed a drug crime in a village in La Matanza and, according to the prosecutor, "he had problems outside" and had to leave the police station because "he
had
Mexican
drug
traffickers
from the village 1-11 -14
"of the Federal Capital.
For her part, the then Aranda lawyer, Leticia Analía Tortosa (41), is accused of having taken advantage of one of her visits to the police station to give her client the telephone number with which, a few days before and from the cell, contacted the band to plan the event.
The prosecutor considered it proven that the episode occurred at 5.05 on April 30, 2018 at the Northwest District Police Station 1st.
San Justo, where the defendants deployed a plan
to rescue Aranda from one of the four cells of the section
, in which that morning there were a total of 43 detainees.
Sentences of 50 years in prison for 4 members of the gang who wanted to take over a police station to free a prisoner.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger.
Always according to the accusation, with at least two firearms and clothing similar to that of the security forces, some remained outside guarding the area and others entered the section and fired at the police personnel who were in the guard with the purpose of causing the death of the policemen.
The four police officers attacked were sub-inspector officers Diego Méndez, Javier Pérez, Adrián Barreto and Sergeant Alejandra Rocío Villareal, who was the only one to be hit by at least two shots that caused "very serious" injuries and
left her permanently and permanently paraplegic. ".
The reaction of the policemen, who managed to repel the aggression with their weapons, caused the gang to abort the coup and flee from the place without being able to reach the dungeon area.
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