For driving drugged and drunk, overturning and killing two members of his band, the singer
Rubén "El Pepo" Castiñeiras
had been sentenced to four years and seven months in prison, in an abbreviated trial that did not have much impact.
Not at least proportional to what the case had had when it occurred and confronted the lawyers Marcelo Biondi and Miguel Ángel Pierri, who knew how to be partners until one began a relationship with the woman who was the other's partner.
Now, the case adds a new chapter that involves a drastic turn and unprecedented until then.
"Pepo" who was imprisoned in his house since December 2019 was released this afternoon.
Castiñeiras' current lawyer, Marino Alejandro Cid Aparicio, told
Clarín
that the singer was released by Justice, which considered that the sentence was exhausted.
The ruling did not yet have a final sentence.
The case had as victims Nicolás Carabajal and Nacho Abosaleh, trumpeter and assistant of the band.
Castiñeiras was serving preventive detention because the sentence had been appealed in the Supreme Court of Justice, and it had already been carried out.
In 2022, he was sentenced to serve four years and seven months for the crime of "sextuly aggravated manslaughter."
The damage to the truck in which Pepo was traveling shows the magnitude of the rollover.
(Photo Courtesy Radio Nova Dolores)
The agreement reached in an abbreviated trial, approved by the Correctional Court 3 of Dolores, which in its ruling indicated that Castiñeiras drove in a "reckless, negligent and illegal manner,
under the influence of narcotics and with a blood alcohol level of 1.02 in blood"
, which caused the accident
In addition, he was
disqualified from driving vehicles for a period of ten years and
payment of procedural costs, plus a declaration of recidivism;
and he was forced to undergo "psychological/psychiatric treatment" that addresses "the particular health circumstances certified in the process."
The rollover occurred in the early hours of Saturday, July 20, 2019 on provincial route 63, near the Buenos Aires district of Dolores, when the singer lost control of the vehicle while traveling, with his group, to a tour in the spa town. of Villa Gesell, due to the passage of an animal, and overturned in a ditch.
Ignacio Abosaleh and Nicolás Carabajal, before the accident.
As a consequence, Pepo and Romina Candia, the band's backup singer, only suffered injuries, while the manager, Ignacio Abosaleh, and the trumpeter, Nicolás Carabajal, died.
At the trial it was proven that both were asleep and without their seat belts fastened, in the back of the white Honda CRV truck and that they died instantly.
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