06/05/2021 18:07
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 06/05/2021 18:07
Two Buenos Aires police officers from the town of San Pedro were arrested on Friday accused of
having beaten to death
a man who claimed them for
the delay in the arrival of an ambulance
for his wife.
These are the policemen Rodrigo Velázquez and Emanuel González, who were arrested by order of the prosecutor Hernán Granda, who accused them of "aggravated homicide for having been committed
abusing their function
as a member of a security force," a crime that provides for the penalty of
life imprisonment
.
Both agents testified this Saturday before the representative of the Public Ministry and denied having beaten Germán López García (44).
According to sources in the case, the violent episode occurred on May 2.
Around 6.30 p.m., López García called for an ambulance because his wife
had decompensated
.
The woman was on the first floor of her house, located in Fray del Pozo and Casella.
Spokesmen for the investigation detailed that policemen Velázquez and González arrived at the scene aboard a patrol car and met
the owner of the house.
The man was angry that the ambulance had not arrived and, after an argument,
took a pruning shears with which he injured
one of the officers.
Faced with this situation, the officers reduced López García, who, according to the investigators, always
suffered a beating in different parts of his body
.
"A witness pointed out that while one had him on the ground, the other came and
kicked him with full force in the stomach,
" said a spokesman in charge of the investigation.
The victim was admitted to the Emilio Ruffa Hospital in San Pedro until Thursday, May 27, when he
died from the injuries suffered
.
Prosecutor Granda, in charge of the decentralized Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 8 in the neighboring town of Baradero, intervened in the investigation involving the San Pedro police.
After taking various testimonies from the man's neighbors and relatives, the judicial official requested the arrest of both agents, a measure endorsed by the Court of Guarantees.
González was arrested in San Pedro and Velázquez in the city of San Nicolás, where he lives, and they were housed at the headquarters of the Naval Prefecture.
Granda investigated the two in the course of this morning and both pleaded "
innocent
", since they assured that they only used force to apprehend him and
that they did not beat him at any time
.
The officers will continue to be detained and their defenders have asked for their release.
The prosecution was waiting to receive the full autopsy report and next week the staff will go to take statements in the neighborhood where the homicide took place.
They will also carry out an inspection of the house because both policemen alleged that
the witnesses could not have observed the fact
because from the street they could not see into the house.
"Let's hope that justice is done because it was a murder, instead of sending an ambulance they sent him death," the man's sister-in-law told a local media during a demonstration last Tuesday, who added:
"They killed a worker, no he was no criminal
.
"
The antecedent of one of the accused
In the last hours it was learned that the police officer González is
accused in another
case for an alleged case of "easy trigger" of a 26-year-old young man who had been committed in that same city, in January of last year, and of having
"planted "a weapon
to simulate a confrontation.
That event occurred on January 24, 2020 in the courtyard of a house located in Alvarado at 1300 San Pedro, where the Police had been summoned for a fight.
Ángel Luna tried to avoid being arrested and one of the troops named Facundo Gómez
fired a shotgun
that caused the death of the young man.
In addition to that officer, seven other police officers, including González, were prosecuted on suspicion of having "planted" a firearm to pretend that the victim had pointed it at them and to
feign a confrontation
.
Source: Télam.
LM
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