The businessman
Francisco Sáenz Valiente
, arrested for the death of a young Brazilian woman after falling from his apartment on the sixth floor of Retiro, insisted on his version of events in his investigative statement: he stated that the victim had an "outbreak" and threw himself into the empty by a window
Sáenz Valiente (52) is being held as part of a case in which it is being investigated whether
Emmily Rodrigues Santos Gomes (26)
was the victim of a homicide or if she actually threw herself from the sixth floor.
Judicial spokesmen confirmed to the Télam agency that the businessman from the agricultural sector was investigated by Judge Martín Del Viso, who subrogates the 31st Criminal and Correctional Court, and the 10th prosecutor of the same jurisdiction, Santiago Vismara.
Francisco Saenz Valiente, the businessman who was detained while investigating how Emmily Rodrigues Santos Gomes died.
"The defendant maintained the
same initial version
that he gave to the police. That the girl had a kind of psychotic break, that she became aggressive and that she looked for a window to jump into the void," said a judicial source linked to the file.
After declaring, Sáenz Valiente was detained waiting for Judge Del Viso to resolve his procedural situation within ten days.
The National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office 10, temporarily in charge of Vismara, issued this Monday, through the website Fiscales.gob.ar, a statement regarding the investigation of the accused, although without giving many details.
Emmily Rodrigues, the 26-year-old Brazilian girl who died when she fell from a sixth floor on Libertad Street at 1500.
"In the framework of the case, on Saturday, April 1, an investigative statement was taken from a 52-year-old man, owner of the apartment where the victim fell, who is still detained. The investigation is ongoing and with different measures to produce," said the prosecutor's office, adding that "any other information of interest will be communicated" through the institutional portal of the Public Prosecutor's Office.
What is known so far
According to what the investigators were able to reconstruct through the accounts of witnesses, last Wednesday night Sáenz Valiente went to dinner with a group of friends, among whom was a young woman, also Brazilian like the victim, with whom she has been friends for four years. years and that he was present on Thursday when the event occurred.
This young woman, whose initials are JMM and who is 37 years old, took the victim Rodrígues as a guest for the first time to this type of dinner.
The investigators established that that night the group of friends had dinner at the Gardiner restaurant on Costanera Avenue and then went to a bar in Palermo for a drink.
Already at dawn on Thursday, the businessman, along with his friend JMM, Rodrigues and a third woman who is also a friend of the group that had come to dinner, went to the apartment on the sixth floor of the building on Calle Libertad 1542, in Retiro, to meters from the Patio Bullrich shopping mall.
According to the investigators, after a night of excesses, Rodrigues apparently suffered a nervous breakdown around 9 in the morning after an argument with the owner of the house, after which the woman began to run through the apartment.
It is believed that at that point, the third woman who had attended had already withdrawn, so that Sáenz Valiente, her friend and Rodrigues remained in the apartment.
According to what was reported by the defendant, by the other Brazilian and by witnesses, the young woman was very aggressive and tried to open a window that faces the front of the building, but since she could not, she reached a window in a room that overlooks the building. to the apple lung and threw himself.
Neighbors of the building called 911 and personnel from the 1A Neighborhood Police Station went to the place and found Rodrigues' body in an area that was difficult to access.
A SAME ambulance helped the victim and transferred her to a Fernández hospital, but she arrived dead.
Different neighbors recounted that
parties were frequent in the
businessman's apartment and that they took place any day of the week, that they lasted all night and that
shouting was common
.
Police officers from the police station who searched the apartment found bottles of alcoholic beverages, but initially found no drugs, the sources said.
With information from Telam
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