translated from Spanish: Pérez Volpin case: 3 years of conditional prison sentenced to endoscopist

A year and a half after the death of former journalist and legislator, Débora Pérez Volpin, the Justice sentenced 3 years of parole to the esdoscopist Diego Bialolenkier and acquitted the anaesthetist Nélida Inés Puente. Diego Pirota, the lawyer for Pérez Volpin’s family said after hearing the verdict, said they are happy because it is “a fair sentence.” The judge’s decision will be respected, but we will discuss the acquittal of the anaesthetist and ask for it to be reviewed. We wanted justice and today the family received justice,” the lawyer said.” This thing that the clinic came out to install that Deborah died because she had a pre-existing pathology is false: justice just said that he didn’t die because of it,” he said.
“Deborah died because she was killed by one or two doctors, we think it was two, justice understands that it is one. She was killed at the Trinidad clinic,” Pirota said.

The trial prosecutor María Luz Castagni, had asked for four years in prison for the endoscopist and three years for the anaesthetist. At the same time, the sentence envisages seven years of disqualification for Bialolenkier, who, as determined, punctured the lawmaker’s esophagus. The Court also enabled the opening of a process to investigate the alleged cover-up of the La Trinidad Sanatorium.

Diego Bialolenkier

“We accepted the Court’s ruling because from the beginning our family always wanted truth and justice. We are not happy because we also came to raise the responsibility of the anaesthetist, but today we have justice,” Enrique Sacco, Pérez Volpin’s partner, said in the previous by a medical error and there was no previous pathology. The previous pathologies that Deborah had have no causal relationship with the event.” The anaesthetist’s defense, meanwhile, had requested her client’s “free acquittal” since her action on February 6, 2018, when Pérez Volpin died while undergoing a medical study, “it is not passable by criminal reproach”. In this note:

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