They asked for 5 years in jail for a driver who ran over and killed a child, but the trial was delayed by a scandal

06/28/2021 20:06

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Updated 06/28/2021 20:06

The trial against

Ricardo Emanuel Papadopulos

, the young man who ran over and killed Isaac Sus in December, a four-year-old boy who was crossing Directorate Avenue hand in hand with his mother, entered the final stage this Monday, although an incident that occurred in the hearing this morning could

delay the reading of the verdict

.

This Monday, the trial prosecutor Ignacio Mahiques and the Public Defender for Minors and Incapacitated Silvina Céspedes presented their

arguments.

On June 14, it had been the turn of the attorney for the complaint, Gabriel Becker, who had requested an exemplary sentence of

six years in prison and 10 years of disqualification from driving.

During the hearing, which took place virtually, by Zoom, the prosecutor Mahiques and the defender Céspedes agreed on the same request for conviction:

five years in prison and 10 years of disqualification from driving.

Ricardo Papadópulos had no driving record at the time of running over and killing four-year-old Isaac Sus.

Papadopulos, who was prosecuted and remains in

custody,

is being tried by the Oral Criminal Court 15 of Capital, in charge of Judge Gabriel Vega.

The 21-year-old is charged with the crime of

aggravated manslaughter

, both for reckless driving and for fleeing the scene without helping the victims.

Also, the serious injuries that he caused to Isaac's mother, Débora Inés Agosti, after running over her weigh on him.

On the night of December 17, 2020, Papadopulos was

driving a white Volkswagen Golf GTI without a license

when he ran over and killed Isaac Sus.

Son and mother were crossing the Avenida Directorate, at the height of San Pedrito, in Flores, and they did not have time to react: in seconds,

Papadopulos charged them and Isaac died shortly after.

Isaac had blue eyes, the same as his mother Débora Agosti.

Since that day in December, six months have passed and Papadopulos has not yet been transferred to a Penitentiary Unit: he is still

housed in the Mayor's Office 14 of Palermo

, where he turned himself in after being a fugitive for eight days and from where this Monday he was connected by videoconference to the audience of the judgment against him.

This morning the argument of the Papadopulos defense was also scheduled, but an incident that occurred in the middle of the hearing delayed the process and delayed until July 12 the presentation of

Fabián Améndola and Fernando Burlando, Papadopulos' lawyers

.

The incident

The event occurred during an intermission period, at the end of the statement of the prosecutor Ignacio Mahiques and while the turn of the Public Defender of Minors and Incapable was awaited.

The microphone of the lawyer of the Sus family, Gabriel Becker, was enabled and allowed to listen to a telephone call with his colleague David Berstein, to whom, according to the

Télam

agency

, he said: "I am surprised (with the penalty requested by the prosecutor) , this changes everything. "

"It is not what we had discussed (with the prosecutor). The envelope must not have arrived or it was surrounded," Becker added,

always according to Télam

.

The audio was then muted by a court official.

Once the recess was over, Améndola, one of Papadopulos's lawyers, presented the situation to the judge and

requested a momentary interruption of the trial.

Meanwhile, the defendant's other defender, Fernando Burlando, described the event as

"extremely serious"

and asked for a determination to be made for the possible commission of a crime, given that Becker had not identified who the envelope was addressed to and on behalf of whose.

Becker, for his part, apologized, especially to the prosecutor, and assured that it was a

communication made in the private sphere.

In addition, according to Télam, he explained that what he had said was not a statement and assured that he did not doubt the professional work and integrity of the prosecutor.

Finally, the prosecutor Mahiques said he was offended and hurt by the statements, although he clarified that the statements of the Sus family's lawyer did not hinder the development of the trial, for which he

asked that the episode be set aside.

Judge Gabriel Vega listened to the different parties, gave a verbal warning to the lawyer for the complaint and decided to go to an interim room until July 12.

With information from Télam

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