Gustavo Molina, father of Yonatan, the main suspect for the violent murder of Teresa Pepe, his neighbor, in Quilmes, insisted that
he was the one who handed his son over to the Police
, as it emerged as soon as the case gained notoriety and despite the denial of the prosecutor, Ximena Santoro.
He also explained
why he made that determination
.
“I took him (to the Police) because
I didn't want them to kill him in the village where he settled
two weeks ago.
On the third day they took a motorcycle from him,” he explained in an interview that he gave to
El Trece
on the night after the episode that occurred at 3,600 Mayor Olivieri Street, in that city located south of the Buenos Aires suburbs.
The suspect's aunt said that she saw him crossing the party wall of the victim, who had lived more than four decades in the La Cañada neighborhood of Quilmes Oeste, and that he
had stolen a television and other items
from Pepe's house, whom they found
lying on the floor in the kitchen, tied with cables and covered
with boxes and bags.
Tonight, Gustavo Molina gave credence to that version.
“My sister saw that she passed a TV over the party wall.
When I see the two TVs, meat, everything he stole, he was no longer there,
he had gone to the villa
(Itatí),” she commented.
Gustavo Molina said that he handed over his son, the main suspect in the crime of a retiree in Quilmes, so that he would not be killed.
This episode seemed to be the final straw for the family.
The young man had just been detained on February 23 in a case for "aggravated concealment."
And although he had quickly regained his freedom, the problems did not stop due to his
problems with addictions and with neighbors, among them Pepe
.
“I went to look for him and he came upset.
He would make him sleep and he would get up and leave.
He smoked marijuana and consumed pills
,” described the defendant's father.
He also said that he had the collaboration of some acquaintances in Villa Itatí to find his son after the incident.
The aunt who saw him leave the victim's house, meanwhile, said this Tuesday in the media that she wanted the young man to “pay” for what he did.
“I think my son didn't go, that he was with someone else.”
Despite all the data that points towards his son, Gustavo Molina believes that he “was not” the author of the crime.
“He was with someone else, because I just found out that a neighbor saw him in the afternoon with another kid that he doesn't know.
“I am going to ask for cameras
,” he assured.
Prosecutor Santoro also handled the hypothesis that there was an accomplice.
“I don't believe him, because he came here without blood stains.
The police told me that he had blood on his sneakers,” he added.
Then, already
in tears
, the man told what the moment was like when he found him after the episode.
Yonatan, who lived in the house next to Teresa Pepe's,
was prowling the hallways of Villa Itatí
, almost 30 blocks from his home.
“He looked at me, I told him that Teresa was dead and he was shocked.
They handcuffed him and he got into the patrol car.
When we entered the police station, I hugged him,
I told him I loved him and to tell the truth
,” he said, his voice breaking.
The woman was found dead in her home in Quilmes.
A neighbor was arrested as the main suspect.
“He never did this.
Since he started going to the Racing club he started smoking nevado, marijuana with cocaine, paco.
He smokes every day.
It is seen that that day he had no money and he did what he did
”, he completed, putting the focus directly on his problem with addictions.
The prosecution points to a robbery aggravated by the use of a knife followed by death, or homicide criminis causa.
Meanwhile, Molina was detained in the UFI 7 warden in Quilmes.
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