08/02/2021 18:50
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 08/02/2021 18:54
The
ambulanceman Héctor Pain
, driver of the emergency unit in which the psychiatrist arrived at the house of Santiago "Chano" Moreno Charpentier on Sunday after the crisis that ended in tragedy, said that he heard a policeman
shout the voice of "stop" several times
before the shot that wounded the musician, to whom they tried to hospitalize him urgently.
Although he did not
identify which officer it was
.
The driver also testified that
the singer's mother
, Marina Charpentier, when she received them at the door of the house in the private neighborhood Parque La Verdad de Exaltación de la Cruz,
He informed them that Chano "
had used"
, and had been doing it for "7 days".
Pain's statement, to which
Clarín
agreed
, was given this Monday in the framework of the case investigated by the prosecutor Martín Zocca, of the UFI of Complex Crimes of Zárate-Campana, to the policeman Facundo Amendolara (27), whom he charged for the crime of "
very serious injuries aggravated
by the use of a firearm and being a police officer", which has a penalty of between
3 and 15 years in prison.
Chano Moreno Charpentier, shot by a Buenos Aires police officer after a crisis.
The ambulanceman recalled that, when they arrived at the house of the former leader of Tan Biónica, they
found the singer in his bed
, with a notebook that illuminated his face and all
the lights in his house turned off
because, he alleged, that "he had to change a thermal key ".
Pain narrated that Chano threatened them with a "leave my house because I don't want to talk to anyone and
I'm going to cut their jugular
with a knife," to which he later added: "I'm going to look for him."
In addition, he said that, faced with this threat, he went back to take shelter in the ambulance and the psychiatrist followed him;
who heard Chano's mother shout:
'Son, don't hit me
, I'm your mother.'
Chano's house where he was shot in a crisis.
Then, he explained that he saw that the musician
kicked the woman
and that, with a piece of wood taken with both hands, he then hit the stepfather's truck, where the refugee man was.
Thus, Pain narrated that it was the musician's mother who
asked
them
to call the Police
and that the psychiatrist contacted the prepaid to
"ask for
a red code
to assist the patient" and another highly complex ambulance.
Pain recalled that when the three policemen arrived, the mother told them that her son was
"very out of it"
and that the psychiatrist first warned them that the musician had a "
sharp object
in his hand with which he tried to corner him", and then asked them support because he had to be "
admitted urgently
."
Posters left by Chano's fans at the Otamendi Sanatorium.
Photo: Mario Quinteros
After one of the agents
spoke with Chano by phone
-communication that ended because the musician cut him off-, the three policemen, the psychiatrist and the ambulanceman tried to get to where the singer was, but Charpentier yelled at them that
he did not want them to enter. to the house
.
Pain, who has been working in psychiatric emergencies for 13 years, told prosecutor Zocca that
Chano was "enraged" and "beside himself
.
"
And that he went back to the ambulance.
It was then that he
heard the word "stop" several times
and then the gunshot.
And that he saw the musician's mother come out of the house and shouted: "
Why did they shoot him
, there was no need to shoot him."
The knife kidnapped in Chano's house.
Pain wasn't the first to speak to prosecutor Zocca.
Last Friday, the psychiatrist Gonzalo Caligiuri did: he said that the musician had
"an overly aggressive attitude"
on July 25 at night when he was shot by the police after he was threatened.
This Monday it was expected that the two colleagues of the police officer Amendolara, who arrived with him at the musician's house that Sunday, July 25, of the tragedy.
They are
policemen
Mariano Andrés Giacco and Vanesa Flores,
companions of the accused
at the 2nd police station in the town of Parada Robles and who witnessed how Amendolara shot Chano.
In their first statement, both officers
defended the accused.
Marina Charpentier, Chano's mother.
The policeman's request
The defense of the police officer Amendolara requested on Monday
the release of
the officer
from prison
in the case that has him as a defendant for having shot Chano in the abdomen during a crisis of the musician.
Amendolara's lawyer, Fernando Soto, assured
TN
this afternoon
that "for a person to go to prison there should be a risk of escape or prevent the investigation" and considered that his client does not fit into it since "it
is the right, it is police personnel
".
He also said that the crime charged to Amendolara "
is ex-jailible
", but went ahead with the presentation before the Justice of Guarantees.
Luis Oscar Chocobar (34), together with the policeman Facundo Amendolara (27).
The decision to grant or not the exemption from prison was in the hands of Judge of Guarantees No. 2 of Zárate-Campana, Julio Andrés Grassi.
According to the lawyer, it was the decision of the Attorney General's Office to put a prosecutor investigating crimes of Institutional Violence in charge of the file that made him "think that he
considers that the policeman abused his functions,
so they may use that argument to arrest him." .
“We want to prove that Amendolara
had no alternative but to act as he did
.
Chano threatened and ran everyone with a knife.
When he wanted to attack the other two policemen, he realized that Amendolara was closer and advanced towards him, ”Soto told the
Télam
news agency
.
And he continued: “My client started to back down, he called out to him but, when Chano was two meters away, he shot him.
It is a distance in which
if he did not shoot, he would kill him
”.
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