07/25/2021 6:00 AM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 07/25/2021 6:00 AM
The expertise carried out on the balcony railing from which Pilar Riesco fell on March 15, 2020 in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Nueva Pompeya, is one of the "key" tests that led the Justice not only to request the arrest of Patricio Reynoso for femicide but also for an officer of the City Police to be investigated for alleged false testimony or cover-up.
Is that, according to that study, no fingerprints were found that indicate that Riesco (21) grabbed hold of the railing and threw himself into the void, as stated by the defendant Reynoso (32) and
the police Romina Belén Barcelona
, who claimed to have witnessed the episode from a balcony across the street.
Reynoso's account of the event "has been distorted, or at least questioned, in the face of incontestable evidence that accounted for the absence of fingerprints on the surface of the balcony railing from which Riesco would have taken before falling to the empty ", indicated the Appeals Chamber when ratifying the preventive detention of the accused.
Already before, the judge in charge of the case, Graciela Angulo de Quinn, had based the dictation of this measure on the expert opinions carried out by the Scientific Cabinet of South Area II of the City Police, from the survey carried out at the home the day of the fact ,.
Patricio Reynoso (31), partner of Pilar Riesco.
"It appears that not a single fingerprint was collected from the balcony railing from which Reynoso threw Pilar, not even a partial one," said the magistrate at that time, adding: "It was not feasible to find the presence of DNA either, which implies that neither of the two - neither Reynoso nor Riesco - were exactly in those locations at the time of the event. "
By testifying three times as a defendant, Reynoso said that he had had an argument with Riesco at noon on March 15, 2020 and that all he did was
"hold back the blows" she gave him.
"With his right hand, he did grab her by the neck, with his left hand, by the other arm and I took her off me," he declared in his third extension of the investigation, on June 10 of this year.
For her part, the policewoman who witnessed the incident assured that she observed from her mother's house, located in the building opposite the couple's, when Riesco jumped off the balcony.
"First (he passed) one leg from the outside and then the other leg, facing the interior of the apartment, holding onto the railing with his hands and then automatically turning, throwing himself forward towards the sidewalk," he explained.
Reynoso's defense, for its part, introduced a letter in the case in which it stated that "according to the photographs and video taken by police personnel" in the department "there were no signs of a fight" and denounced that the investigations were carried out. on March 25, 10 days after the event, "where adverse weather issues and exogenous factors had already played a leading role."
The criminalist Daniel Fernández, contributed by the complaint represented by the lawyer Roberto Damboriana on behalf of the Riesco family, concluded in his report that the young woman
"did not climb the balcony by her own means and then threw herself into the void, nor did she apply self-harm to the arm. "
Reynoso had an international arrest warrant since April 5.
"Traces and latent fingerprints are deposited on suitable surfaces (shiny and polished) such as glass, thanks to the sebaceous secretion that exudes through the pores of the skin," said the specialist, who assured that these secretions last a long time, settled on these surfaces, as they "repel moisture and even rain."
Other evidence that the National Criminal and Correctional Judge 51 mentioned at the time of processing Reynoso were the injuries that the victim had on his body, mainly on the neck and arms.
"It should be remembered that Pilar Lucía Riesco had multiple bruises on both arms, forearms, hand and right wrist that, according to reports, could correspond to injuries from fighting or defense," the magistrate said.
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