An expert from the National Gendarmerie (GNA) confirmed this Friday the shooting position that a policeman adopted when he took his body out of the patrol car window and pointed his gun at the car in which the five boys who were victims of the so-called “Monte Massacre” were traveling, four of whom died when they crashed into a truck trailer during a gunshot chase that occurred at dawn on May 20, 2019 in the Buenos Aires city of San Miguel del Monte. This testimony is added to others that confirmed the fierce persecution that included gunshots.
Jose Alberto Gutierrez He is an expert from the Criminalistics Department of the GNA. When declaring this morning in the jury trial that four agents from Buenos Aires are being followed in La Plata for the massacre, he said that his role was to analyze the images of the persecution captured by the cameras of the Monitoring Center of the municipality of San Miguel del Monte .
During his presentation, the expert showed how the Fiat 147 car in which the victims were driving was identified when it entered the avenue and then was intercepted by the patrol car, which turned into a “U” to pursue it.
Gutiérrez clarified that his task was limited to the analysis of the frames and explained that he could not determine “How fast were they going or how much distance was between the two cars” since that “it’s not your job”.
On the other hand, he did point out that in the videos of the persecution you can see the entrance of a second patrol car and the moment in which one of the uniformed men puts his body as if aiming, although the flash is not seen.
The day of debate continued this afternoon with more witnesses and the reproduction is awaited before the jury and the technical judge of the Oral Criminal Court IV of La Plata of the filming of the Gesell camera made at Rocio Quagliariellothe only survivor of the event, who was 13 years old at the time.
Quagliariello (17) was seriously injured after the Fiat 147 in which she was traveling with her friends collided with the trailer of a truck while they were being shot at by the police.
As a result of that episode they died practically on the spot. Camila López (13), Danilo Sansone (13), Gonzalo Domínguez (14) and Aníbal Suárez (22).
For this fact, the former captain of the Buenos Aires police is tried Ruben Alberto Garcia and the officers Leandro Ecilap, Mariano Ibanez y Manuel Monrealcurrently all detainees in pretrial detention.
Regarding the statement by Quagliariello, who up to now has witnessed all the debate hearings, judicial sources explained to 0221.com.ar that he did it this way since he is a minor.
As stated in the request for trial, the adolescent recalled that on the day of the event she and Camila López “They yelled at Aníbal Suarez to stop the car and that he told him that he couldn’t because he didn’t have the papers” of the same and “they were going to take out”.
In turn, the file states that Rocío indicated that, during the police pursuit, Gonzalo Domínguez began to say: “They threw me, they threw me, it burns me”.
The trial began last Monday with the election of the popular jury that will have to define if the accused policemen are guilty. or not, of the crimes of “aggravated homicide due to abuse of function as a member of the police force qualified by the use of firearms, and violation of the duties of a public official”legal framework that has life imprisonment as an expectation sentence.
In the guidelines of the accusation, the trial prosecutor Mariano Sibuet said that the accused police officers committed a “heinous act”who acted in a manner “inmotivated” and stated that the victims, “when surrounded”lived moments of “terror, anguish and fear”for which he asked the popular jury to “issue a fair opinion to do honor to justice”.
The so-called “San Miguel del Monte Massacre” occurred at dawn on May 20, 2019, when members of the local police station chased a Fiat 147 along the Route 3 collector in which four adolescents were traveling, three of them A 13-year-old and a 14-year-old, along with a 22-year-old.
The five boys were listening to music when the officers began to chase them for no reason and, according to the records of the municipality’s security cameras, to shoot them, since a policeman was observed in the place of the patrol companion, with half a body. outside and in a shooting attitude, while one of the adolescents was wounded by a bullet in one of his legs.
As a result, the car in which the young people were traveling collided with a trailer that was stopped on the road.
