translated from Spanish: The case of Laura Arrieta: innocent, was imprisoned for a year for a cause narco

First it was embarrassing and immediately after the despair. Gimena Ristuccia read the written note for his mother and not know what to do. The message, written by hand and the rush was brief but forceful: “lead Me detained and incommunicado, the truth I do not understand anything, I was left with nothing, is very sad”. Handcuffed, without eating or drinking water, Laura Arrieta was arrested, first in the Sentinel building, into retirement, but after a few hours of staff of the gendarmerie moved it at the Corrientes Province, more than a thousand kilometres from his house and its agency, located on the Avenue Eva Perón to 500 of Temperley.

Note that Laura left her family when she was arrested

In the early morning of April 10, 2018, Manager and producer of insurance with more than one decade of work in the South of the conurbation, received a call of the gendarmes so will be urgent in his office. If he did they warned him that they would enter by force to the local, pulling the door down, to comply with an order of search warrant. The 46-year-old woman knew after that everything was starting from a case of drug trafficking which was imputed by the marketing of narcotic drugs 23.737 law violation. That investigation had begun a year earlier, following the kidnapping of a shipment of 3543 kilos of marijuana that were transported in a truck that was stopped on route 12, at the height of the Corrientes city of Villa Olivari.
“I heard that it was in streams after traveling more than twelve hours. I had never before been in that place. I didn’t understand anything; they named me people who did not know, situations that were far from my life”, he tells Filo.News Laura Arrieta.

Laura Arrieta is 46 years old and is the mother of 2 children

There is a fact that is not minor: since abduction of that truck until March 2018, the Manager did not appear in the court case. That coincides with data of gendarmerie, which failed to find links between Arrieta and the rest of those involved in the research. Then, how it was that he came to be accused as “Organizer” of a band of drug traffickers? The judge of Instrucción Juan Carlos Vallejos detected two calls from the woman with one of his clients, who required their management services to get a R.U.T.A (single registry of automotive transport). That did boast correntino judge that the professional knew that the end of that man would be committing unlawful acts with the truck. In response, the defense of Arrieta, claimed that “that enable so that a truck can circulate the National Commission for transport regulation gives it” and that the Manager “was a simple intermediary”. “It is more–it insisted the lawyer – the documentation to obtain to obtain the R.U.T.A can lead anyone to the organism in question”. Requests for release were recurrent, but the Corrientes Justice did not reply. With the passing of the months appeared a key element that should have generated the immediate release of the management: the truck to which she performed the procedure R.U.T.A not never circulated, but it was another vehicle which transported the drug. But Arrieta followed dam.

There were marches, posters and various judicial systems for the freedom of Laura Arrieta

The course of Arrieta in jail
After a few hours in the police building in the Retiro neighborhood, Arrieta was born a Corrientes Squadron which was three days, always handcuffed and sleeping on a mattress on the floor until they moved it to Paso de los Libres, in the border with Brazil where he stayed four months. “There was the worst months of his life: the gendarmes and treatment of men detained in an adjoining cell was very demeaning and came to lose 20 kilos weight.” We fight together with the lawyers to get their transfer to the Pelletier Institute in Corrientes (women’s prison) until after several claims succeeded. There treatment was different and there was until the end of March this year, where all chewed much injustice,”said Gimena, the daughter of Laura, who was at the head of the order of freedom of his mother, visiting the courts of currents , human rights organizations and media that the case be known. Less than a month have been released by order of the Federal Chamber of appeals of Corrientes, when consulted to who responsible for the wrongful arrest, Arrieta and his daughter are running against judicial officers.
“First judge Juan Carlos Vallejos and Attorney Flavio Ferrini, the ineffectiveness and the impunity with which took later the cause and the delay in its decisions. Having a person in a situation of closure and with presumption of innocence legal deadlines must be respected”.

Arrieta with his lawyer Hermindo González, in March, when it was released

Highlights the performance of the prosecutor Carlos Schaefer, since they ensure that “was the only full record what asked for comment on the release” after warning several inconsistencies in the record. The judicial inquiry that Arrieta was arrested is still in course. And she, as well as his family and his lawyer, expect to be acquitted in a trial, because “because he is innocent and always acted right”. Since a few weeks ago, Laura tries to regain her family and professional life with the bitter taste of a justice that by mistake – in the best of scenarios–or by negligence, caused him to lose a year of freedom. A severe case of injustice that must not recur. In this note:

Original source in Spanish

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