Nicolás Gil Pereg.
(Credit: Judicial Branch of Mendoza)
(CNN Spanish) -
This Tuesday the trial against Nicolás Gil Pereg began in the Argentine city of Mendoza, accused of the murder of his mother, Pirhya Sarusi, 63, and Lily Pereg, 54, aunt of the accused and Sarusi's sister.
The two Israeli women arrived in Mendoza in January 2019 to visit Gil Pereg.
Later, according to the Prosecutor's Office, they were murdered and buried in the man's home.
According to forensic studies, Lily Pereg was shot three times, ending her life, while Pirhya Sarusi was hanged with a rope or rope.
Gil Pereg will be tried by a jury of 12 people and if found guilty, he could be sentenced to life imprisonment or found not to be imputable and sent to a neuropsychiatric hospital.
Psychiatric report on "cat man" revealed
According to a forensic psychiatric report cited by the Telam agency, the defendant, whom the local media calls "the cat man", suffers from "delusion of bodily transformation."
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His defense attorney, Maximiliano Legrand, stated this Tuesday during the trial that when Pereg was still at large "he lived with 37 cats whom he treated like his children because he already suffered from paraphrenia, another form of insanity; lycanthropy, a disorder where there are many people who think they are animals, and delusions. "
Legrand affirmed that he will request that his client be unimpeachable.
Pereg was evicted from the hearing on the first day of the trial because he did not stop meowing.
As could be seen in the live broadcast from the Mendoza Judicial Pole, the judge in the case requested the transfer of the accused to an adjoining room after asking him to corroborate his name and receive a "meow" in response.
