Double crime of Congress: 'I never wanted to hurt, much less kill anyone'

2021-09-20T13:48:04.906Z

This was said by Juan José Navarro Cádiz (27), accused of shooting and killing deputy Héctor Olivares and his adviser Miguel Yadón.

09/20/2021 10:09

Clarín.com
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Updated 09/20/2021 10:31 AM

Juan José Navarro Cádiz, accused of shooting deputy Héctor Olivares and his advisor Miguel Yadón in the National Congress Square, on May 9, 2019, again asked the victims' families for forgiveness when he said his last words beforehand. to the verdict that will be known this Monday at 11:30.

I never wanted to hurt anyone, much less kill anyone

. I want to tell you that I never wanted to harm anyone, much less kill anyone. I ask the families to please forgive me," said Navarro Cádiz (27).

Minutes before his cousin Juan Jesús Fernández (44) spoke, also accused of the double homicide and owner of the Volkswagen Vento from where the shots started.

I will fight for my innocence until my last breath,

" he expressed.

"First of all, I want to say that I am a father of a family, that I love my wife, I love my children. I am a hard-working man, all my life I worked, I worked for my wife, for my family, for my house. I never had problems with anyone, I never had a criminal record, I was always a good, loving, helpful, kind person, always helping the most disadvantaged, "he described.

Fernández added: "It seems unfair to me that for taking my car, which I took from my property every day, they want to give me a life sentence for leaving with my vehicle. They also want to give me a life sentence for not knowing or not knowing the intentions of people".

"I want to emphasize and I want to say that

I am an innocent person who had nothing to do that night with any of the events that occurred

. I also want to say that I feel sorry for the pain that my family and the families of Olivares and Yadón are going through", completed before the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 9 Buenos Aires.

The last words of Juan Jesús Fernández in the trial for the double crime of Congress.

The case has nine defendants, two of them directly for the homicides and the other seven for minor crimes.

At 11.30, the judges Ana Dieta, Fernando Ramírez and Luis Salas will announce the verdict.

In his plea, the trial prosecutor, Ariel Yapur, accused the cousins of the Roma community as co-perpetrators of "

aggravated homicide by treachery committed repeatedly on two occasions, ideally involving the illegal possession of a weapon of war

The difference lay in the request for the amount of the penalty, since while for Fernández he requested life imprisonment, for Navarro Cádiz, who confessed to being the material author of the homicidal shots, he asked for 45 years in prison.

Yapur ruled out for this case the aggravating circumstance of "

pleasure homicide

" for which the case had also come to trial and which was assessed by the complaints of the Olivares and Yadón families, represented by the attorneys María Fernanda Prack and Mónica Mac Gaul, by asking for both alleged perpetrators the sentence of life imprisonment.

The deputy Héctor Olivares and the advisor Miguel Yadón, assassinated in the Plaza del Congreso.

On the first day of the trial, Navarro Cádiz apologized to the families of the victims,

confessed to having been the shooter

but clarified that his intention was to make a single shot towards an ombú in the square and by mistake a blast came out that reached the deputy and his adviser.

His defender, Pablo Pierini, asked that the shooter be sentenced but for the crimes of "

double wrongful death

" (without intention), or at least for "

murder with eventual intent

", with a maximum penalty of 25 years.

On the other hand, the defense of Fernández, in charge of the lawyer Oscar Moyano, requested the acquittal, considering that the fact that his client was inside the car from which the homicidal shots started does not imply that he had the will or control of the done.

In relation to the other defendants -the majority relatives of Fernández and Navarro Cádiz- who came to trial in freedom accused of minor crimes such as "

possession, carrying or supply of weapons

", the prosecutor Yapur requested some acquittals or suspended sentences, while the complaints requested penalties of between 2 and 4 years in prison.

The crime of Olivares (61) and Yadón (58) occurred on May 9, 2019, when the radical deputy for La Rioja and his adviser went out to do their usual morning walk through the National Congress square.

At 6:50, when passing for the second time in front of a Volkswagen Vento parked behind a bus, on Avenida de Mayo between Luis Sáenz Peña and Virrey Cevallos, they were shot several times.

Yadón was shot dead by three shots - one in the neck, another in the armpit and the third in the pelvis - while Olivares was shot in the abdomen that left him seriously injured and died three days later.

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