San Clemente del Tuyú: Sergio Berni warned that he will ask for a new autopsy

This Saturday Alejandro Martínez, 35, died after being arrested in San Clemente del Tuyú. The autopsy confirmed that he was beaten and suffocated. Regarding this issue, the Minister of Security of the province of Buenos Aires, Sergio Berni, spoke about irregularities in the results of the autopsy carried out on Martinez’s body. There are nine police officers arrested by order of the prosecutor Pablo Gamaleri, of the decentralized UFI No. 11 of La Costa.” There are many things that do not close me,” the minister said in statements to the press and referred to the preparation of the preliminary autopsy report, carried out by the judicial morgue of Lomas de Zamora. “I never saw an expertise of this type and, the truth, that is quite superficial for the importance of what we are talking about,” he added, referring to one of the most controversial institutional crimes and that, in addition, happened in the same week as the murder of the young Lucas González by the City Police.

Berni read verbatim some points of the expert report and maintained that they do not have the necessary precision to give clarity about Martinez’s death. “Look at what he says, this is the first time I’ve seen him in an autopsy: ‘The cause of death would be a secondary traumatic cardio-respiratory arrest probably a mechanical type of asphyxiation.’ So when you talk about mechanical asphyxiation, the first thing you have to do is go to the neck. And when it goes to the neck, the neck muscle without injuries, thyroid without injuries and trachea without injuries and spine without injuries. For more confusion. I never saw an autopsy that probably says. A mechanical asphyxiation is determined or not determined. There’s clarity in that,” he said. Alejandro Martinez was arrested at a hotel thursday night and died early in the morning at the police station. Berni said he will make a request for a new expert report on the victim’s body. 

“We have asked for a new autopsy, we are asking for a lot of procedural measures, because if there is anyone interested in knowing what happened, it is the one who speaks to him, because they have no doubt that if there is a policeman who has committed an excess in his functions, he has been sanctioned with the greatest rigor of the Law. Now, we are not going to allow an attempt to divert the investigation for any special reason,” he said. A good understander, few words. This Governor and this minister the last thing they can do in their life is to cover up for someone. If there was negligence, incompetence or recklessness in the police action, have no doubt that the greatest rigor of the Law will be applied to you. Now, what I want to know is what happened and, unfortunately, with this we cannot know. None of this shuts me down,” he added.
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