Monte Massacre: A People’s Jury Will Decide the Sentence of the Four Accused Police Officers

A popular jury began to decide the sentence of the four policemen Leonardo Daniel Ecilape, Manuel Monreal and Mariano Alejandro Ibáñez, and the former captain of the Police of the province of Buenos Aires, Rubén Alberto García, accused of the case called “Monte Massacre”, which culminated in the deaths of three teenagers and a 22-year-old man. and the gunshot wound in another of them. The twelve jurors began to debate this Wednesday past 10 am in the courts of La Plata, located on 8th Street between 56 and 57, within the framework of the trial, which began on May 8 under the charges of “aggravated homicide for abuse of function as a member of the police forces qualified by the use of firearms, and violation of the duties of a public official” by Danilo Sansone (13), Camila López (13), Gonzalo Domínguez (14) and Aníbal Suárez (22), and the attempt by Rocío Quagliariello (17), who was 13 years old at the time.The policemen accused of the Monte Massacre.To reach a guilty verdict, nine of the twelve jurors must find the defendants guilty; otherwise they will be considered “not guilty,” he explained. Telam in dialogue with judicial sources.” Dora Fernandez, the attorney representing the families of Dominguez and Suarez, said the cause of death “was surely something obscure,” since the boys “surely have seen something.” The reality is that they were ambushed and shot. A witness heard six gunshots. They had the dead boys on the floor and kept throwing at them. They said their lives were at risk, but they were shot from behind. Which police officer who is at risk shoots from behind? There are no words to say but murderers. There was a deliberate intent to kill,” he said.Gonzalo Domínguez, Danilo Sansone, Camila López and Aníbal Suárez.The lawyers of the police separated the responsibility of the facts on Aníbal, the young driver of the car in which the victims were traveling, while considering that the agents acted “in fulfillment of their duty when trying to identify the deceased before the persecution.” After the arguments, the defendants apologized to the relatives in the space to say a few last words. The tragic event happened in the early hours of May 20, when they chased along the collector of Route 3 to a Fiat 147 in which the five young people were traveling who were listening to music when the officers began to chase them for no reason and, according to the records of the security cameras of the municipality, to shoot them. This week, a computer expert revealed that Manuel Monreal, one of the accused, deleted the messages from his phone after the persecution, since in the messages of the rest of his companions he had been named but in his box the chats did not appear.

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