April 11, 2014 was the turning point for the family of carlos romerowho was shot dead during a confrontation between workers from the construction union Unión Obrera de la Construcción de la República Argentina (UOCRA) in La Plata which at that time was headed by the ex-unionist Juan Pablo “Pata” Medina. That day, a group of at least six people reached calle Almafuerte 488, from Cove, attacked those present and, in a confusing episode, shot the 23-year-old young man to the head. Almost nine years after the fact, the oral trial of one of the defendants began, but The family demands that an investigation also be opened into Agustín Medina, son of the ex-unionist, as the alleged mastermind of the attack.
With the statement of the victim’s relatives, the oral trial began David Alzogaray, whom the brother of the deceased young man pointed out in the trial as the person with whom he got into a fight and who activated the weapon that triggered the homicide. The defendant, at the time in fact, was a member of UOCRA La Plata and responded to the orders of the Medina family.
Rodrigo Villarrealthe victim’s nephew, recalled 0221.com.ar that “everything began with a job position between Agustín Medina and my uncle, five people appeared in the house, there would be three armed men, one was David Alzogaray.” “We want justice, nine years have passed, my uncle was 23 years old, three children, he was a working boy, they ruined our lives,” he said in dialogue with this medium.
For the Romero family, the shock group “It was commanded by Agustín Medina”asserted the nephew who recalled that “my mother (the sister of the deceased) chained herself in court, went on hunger strikes, a bullet hit her head, my father was shot in the leg, all to demand justice and on top of that Those attacks came to nothing.”
The Romero family viralized a 2014 protest on social networks, a week after the fact, held in the Villa Ruben Sito neighborhood at the height of the Doña Flora stream, where the victim’s brother demanded “justice” and accused a member of the Medina family as one of those responsible for the crime.
It should be noted that Agustín Medina was investigated by the courts but was disassociated from the case, although the Romero family insists that the case be reopened.
The oral trial for “homicide” takes place in the Oral Criminal Court III of La Plata made up of judges Ernesto Domenech, santiago paolini and Andres Vitali. The prosecution is in the hands of the trial prosecutor Leila Aguilar. The defendant arrived at the debate in freedom.
