2023-06-02 02:10:34
The defense attorney for Darío Holzweissig, the only defendant arrested for the murder of the Curuzucuateña communicator Griselda Blanco, requested an abbreviated trial for his client, which could set him free in 5 or 6 years.
The lawyer for Blanco’s family, Andrea Tribbia, explained in a dialogue with the newspaper Enfoque Digital that, during the siesta this Wednesday, she learned through an email from the Prosecutor’s Office that “the defendant’s defense attorney had proposed an abbreviated trial, requested to the Prosecutor’s Office that in this abbreviated trial his client be sentenced to 8 years in prison, taking into account the figure of simple homicide for which he was accused.
According to the lawyer, the prosecutor María José Barrero Sahagún proceeded “directly to substantiate this request for an abbreviated trial, without transferring to the complaint, without considering the interest of the victim.” And she added: “She directly proceeds to request authorization from the Attorney General (César Sotelo), aware that in her consideration an abbreviated trial would bring benefits.”
In the request for authorization from the Attorney General, Barrero Sahagún proposes a sentence of 10 years in prison, which is less than half of the maximum 24 for the crime of simple homicide, for which Holzweissig is accused. Precisely, this difference with the expected sentence is what forced Sotelo to request authorization before proceeding.
Tribbia expressed his total disagreement with the possibility of an abbreviated trial, since “there is no doubt that it was a femicide, that it would not even give rise to an abbreviated trial.”
It is worth noting that the only possible penalty for femicide is life imprisonment, while the aforementioned abbreviated trial could release Holzweissig “in 5 or 6 years,” the complainant stated, if she is able to access benefits for good conduct.
In addition, Tribbia stressed that the prosecutor did not consult her before moving forward with the possibility of an abbreviated trial and that this mechanism would lack a gender perspective. “From the perspective of the Procedural Code, she (the prosecutor) should consult our opinion. First, she did not consult us and second, she is not looking at herself as the cause should be looked at, from a gender perspective ”.
It is important to clarify that if the aforementioned mechanism to resolve the case materializes, the defendant should plead guilty to the murder.
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