09/12/2021 7:46 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 09/13/2021 10:08
"
There are bullets in the chest for the whole family
."
Carlos Cassalz's threat was directed at those close to Araceli Fulles, the 22-year-old girl murdered in April 2017 in San Martín, a shocking femicide that this Monday will begin the oral trial with eight defendants on the bench, including Cassalz (39).
The accused remained free until this Sunday.
They arrested him when he went to vote at a school in San Martín after sending
an intimidating video to Araceli's mother
, Mónica Ferreyra (62).
During the investigation, he had already been convicted of the crime of threats and the prosecutor for the trial, Mariana Piwarczuk, ordered "a compulsory appearance for fear that he would not appear for the court summons," sources in the case confided.
Carlos Damián Cassalz (39), arrested when he went to vote.
He is one of those accused of the femicide of Araceli Fulles.
Every morning, Ferreyra hugs the painting with her daughter's photo.
He kisses her and lights a cigarette.
It is a ritual that brings her closer every day.
This Monday Mónica will repeat the scene, but with the nerves of being the first to testify in the trial that will have Hernán Rodrigo Badaracco, her boss Cassalz, Daniel Alaniz, Hugo Cabañas, Marcos Antonio Ibarra, Marcelo Escobedo and brothers Jonathan and Emanuel Ávalos.
All are charged with the crimes of "
homicide aggravated by femicide and the participation of two or more people
."
They face the maximum penalty: life.
Regarding Cassalz, Ferreyra warned: "It was known that there would begin to be threats and many things because they will want to prevent my daughter's trial."
The last time they saw Araceli was on April 2, 2017 in a square near where she lived.
At seven in the morning he sent the last message to his mother: "
Prepare things for the mate that I am going home
.
"
Monica put the kettle on fire, but Araceli never came.
The search was desperate.
Araceli's face was in the streets, on television channels and on social networks.
It took 25 days until they found her: she was dead.
They said that he had been the victim of multiple sexual abuse, and that they had hidden his body in a freezer, but the state prevented the experts from verifying it.
What they did confirm is that she had been killed by "mechanical asphyxia".
They strangled her with a seal and tried to hide her body in a pit with lime.
The parents of Araceli Fulles, Ricardo Fulles and Mónica Ferreyra, hold a photograph of their daughter, murdered in 2017. Photo EFE / Javier Castro Bugarín
It was at the home of Darío Badaracco (31), in José León Suárez, where Alcón - a dog from the Punta Alta K-9 Brigade - found her at the bottom, half-buried.
According to the accusation, that night Araceli went to eat a barbecue with a group of friends.
Emanuel Ávalos went looking for her to meet another group in a square.
The dogs located the traces of the young woman in the Cassalz corral, along with her relative, Escobedo.
They had also been in the square with Jonathan and Badaracco.
Darío - in addition - was an employee of the Cassalz corralón and it was at his house that they found Araceli's body.
The trial
From this Monday and, they estimate, until October 7, the Oral Criminal Court No. 3 of San Martín will lead the trial.
Judges Martín Klobovs, Carolina Martínez and Aníbal Bellagio will listen to around 300 witnesses and will have to decide the criminal responsibility of each of the accused.
The trial prosecutor will be Mariana Piwarczuk and lawyer Diego Szpigiel will represent Araceli's family.
“When I found out the date of the trial, I felt everything.
It hurts me to remember the moments my daughter spent, that is what is most difficult for me.
But it doesn't bother me to see their faces,
I'm going to look them in the eye even if I'm sure they don't
, "Mónica told
Clarín
.
Ricardo and Mónica, the parents, in Araceli Fulles' room.
"I feel those nerves, that anguish, I cried too much waiting for this day. I know that whatever they do, whatever happens, I am not going to get my daughter back, but I want them to pay, that they have the maximum penalty: perpetual for all" added the woman.
Monica will be the first witness to testify this Monday when the trial begins in person at the San Martín Courts.
Then her husband and her children, Araceli's brothers, will.
Except that the accused make use of their right and testify before starting with the witnesses.
In these four years and five months since she lost her daughter, the woman had three tattoos.
On the left arm he wrote: "
Your wings were ready to fly but my heart was never ready to see you go
."
Request for justice by Araceli Fulles.
Araceli always told him that together they were going to draw a San Antonio cow on their skin.
Monica was afraid that getting a tattoo would be too painful.
But after the femicide, she decided to keep that promise.
"There is no greater pain than losing a son. I think of Araceli and nothing else can hurt me, much less a tattoo. I lost two sisters, my brother-in-law and a niece, but I couldn't cry them, you know? But
I think of my daughter and tears come to my eyes
. Her life was taken from her and I think of everything she suffered, if they even hurt her when she was already dead, "said her mother.
During the investigation, his family and several of the witnesses received threats of all kinds.
Strategies to divert the investigation, the crime of Darío Badaracco (he was beaten and burned with hot water in the Sierra Chica prison, in April 2019) and even intimidating messages were some of the torments that the woman had to go through until reaching the trial .
Darío Badaracco was murdered in prison.
"Just as I do not feel greater pain,
I am not afraid
. For my children, nothing more. They took our lives together with my daughter's, we have no pain, we are not afraid. The strongest pain is having lost me daughter, we have to continue fighting so that there is justice for her, so that she can rest in peace, "said Mónica.
"No matter how much sentence they give them, they are not going to give it back to me,
I can't get it out of the cemetery
. I want them to pay and have the same as my daughter: that they can't not get out of jail anymore like Araceli who can't get out of the cemetery ", Hill.
In the last ten years in Argentina there is an average of one femicide every 30 hours.
According to statistics from the Office of Domestic Violence of the Supreme Court, in 2018 alone there were 278. Most murders occur in the homes of the victims and are committed by partners or exes.
Where to call
Line 144
Care for women in situations of violence.
Line 137
Attention to Victims of Family Violence.
911 Emergencies
EMJ
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