Nahir Galarza, the youngest woman in Argentina to receive a life sentence for murder, remains a focal point of public interest following the release of a film and a two-part docuseries about her life. seven years after the tragic death of Fernando Pastorizzo, her lawyer, José Ostolaza, shared insights into her current life in prison, where she engages in various activities including studying programming and working in the prison bakery. Despite the gravity of her sentence, Ostolaza noted that Galarza appears calm and may not fully grasp the implications of her situation. As her defense team prepares to present her case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, they argue that her trial was marred by systemic gender biases and procedural irregularities, raising meaningful questions about justice in cases involving women. This controversial case continues to spark intense debate across social media and national platforms,highlighting the complexities of gender violence and legal accountability in Argentina.
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Seven years have passed as the emblematic crime in Gualeguaychú, which occurred on December 29, 2017. That day Pastorizzo was killed with two gunshots: one in the back and the other in the chest. according to the evidence and testimonies collected, and after Nahir herself accused herself, she was convicted at first instance in July 2018 for finding her guilty of murder aggravated by bond, as she maintained a stable relationship with the victim.
In 2022, Nahir Galarza denounces his father as the perpetrator of the crime, and also denounces having raped his mother several times, Yanina Kroh, who confirmed and supported his daughter’s version. “I believe what my daughter says, that the person who killed Pastorizzo was her father,” kroh confirmed. According to this version,the former police officer would have exercised such psychological control over his daughter that,after committing the crime,he would have forced her to incriminate herself.
From that date to today, Galarza has been the subject of intense media scrutiny, which has captured the attention of public opinion and national and international media, becoming a phenomenon that goes beyond crime. In recent times, books, streaming series, documentaries and a film have been made about the young woman from entre Ríos.
the movie “Nahir”, hero Valentina Zenere, which dramatizes known history,was only a step towards finding a narrative that the trial failed to show. It adds to this “Nahir, Demon Angel”a series of twelve episodes that the production house Studio Zeppelin product inspired by the controversial police case. But also the producer kapow (Carmel, The Rati Horror Show) has prepared a 3-episode documentary on the case.
According to a note by Tomás Rodríguez published in Noticias, for these two productions Galarza received the total sum of 500,000 dollars in exchange for the transfer of the rights (300,000 for the first production and another 200,000 for the second). This week it was announced that pre-production would begin on a new twenty-two chapter series that will feature an elderly Nahir Galarza walking out of prison at the age of 54 after presumably serving his entire sentence.
“As an artistic concept, it is indeed undeniable that this is a seductive project, but it would be pure fiction, as I have ther’s no doubt whatsoever that the International Court of Human Rights will overturn this shameful sentence against a teenager. The miniseries would demonstrate that, as I wrote in my book, Nahir would continue despite 35 years in prison harassed by the media lynching and would demonstrate that life imprisonment is a hidden death penalty, since Nahir, if released at that age, would not have any living member of his family, his roots or his life plans,” underlined Jorge Zonzini.
by RN
