07/29/2021 2:12 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 07/29/2021 2:14 PM
"It
was him or me
."
The main official of the Bonaerense, Facundo Amendolara (27), defended himself against the accusations against him for acting in the arrest of the musician Santiago "Chano" Moreno Charpentier, who was shot in the abdomen in a private neighborhood of Exaltación de the cross.
The police officer met his partner Luis Oscar Chocobar (34) on Thursday, at the offices of his lawyer Fernando Soto, in the City of Buenos Aires, as he will be advised by the foundation created by the former officer of the Local Police of Avellaneda to support prosecuted officers.
Lawyers Martín Sarubbi and Ricardo Galeano will also provide legal assistance.
"
I know what you are going through. We are going to support you to prove that you acted in legitimate defense
," Chocobar told Amendolara, as Soto reconstructed in dialogue with
Clarín
.
Luis Oscar Chocobar, along with lawyers Fernando Soto, Martín Sarubbi and Ricardo Galeano.
On May 28, Chocobar was sentenced to two years in suspended prison and disqualified from exercising his functions for five years by the Oral Juvenile Court No. 2. The judges found him guilty of "
homicide with excess in the fulfillment of a duty
".
Amendolara, meanwhile, was charged "in fact" by the prosecutor Martín Zocca, in charge of the Zárate-Campana Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 1 for Complex Crimes, to appoint a lawyer.
"We are going to put an expert to prove that the shot was at close range and
in legitimate defense,
" Soto said in relation to the fact where the policeman shot "Chano" when the musician, "completely out of his mind," threatened him with a knife at midnight last Sunday.
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The other officer who confronted Chano said that the accused police officer "had no other option" but to shoot.
