Sergio Tarachethe femicide who burned his ex-partner alive near Dos de Mayo square and fled from Justice for almost a month until he was captured in Colombia, was defiant this Thursday during the preventive detention hearing in which he received nine months of imprisonment. preventive prison.
“I don’t have a father. I will not give my mother’s name. I do not have an alias or nickname because I am not a criminal, ”he responded to the room during his intervention, in which he was seen handcuffed. At times, he seemed to be about to smile when a representative of the Public Ministry narrated details of the sexist crime. She also asked to go to the bathroom.
Judge Cristóbal Antonio Solís considered the precautionary imprisonment proportional and well-founded, since “the defendant not only fled the scene after having committed the crime with extreme cruelty”, but also fled the national territory.
“The judge estimates that the nine months that the Public ministry They turn out to be the necessary ones and they turn out to be the ideal ones so that, effectively, it can develop not only the investigative acts, but also the procedural acts, “said the magistrate.
In addition, it considered proven the lack of roots of the accused, who was on the run from the Peruvian Justice and was arrested in the Colombian capital, which is why his extradition has to be requested.
tarache, a 19-year-old Venezuelan national, sprayed gasoline and set fire to her ex-partner, Katherine Gómez, after a public argument in downtown Lima. The young woman was in agony for six days and died on March 24 at the Arzobispo Loayza Hospital. She had burns on more than 60% of her body.
“She fought for her life, but unfortunately, the amount of damaged body made it impossible for the doctors to save her life and we have been told that she has died,” announced the Minister for Women, Nancy Tolentino.
The passers-by tried to help her, while the femicide escaped the scene. The Ministry of the Interior offered 50,000 soles for information leading to her capture.
Like the Public Ministry, the Peruvian government requested life imprisonment against Tarache. President Dina Boluarte expressed her “total repudiation” for the femicide at the time. “I think that this violence against women must stop. (…) Women are not the property of couples, ”she added.
According to official data, the country registered 136 sexist crimes in 2022, against 146 in 2021 and 138 in 2020. A similar case occurred in April 2018 in Lima, when a hooded man got on a bus and doused a woman with gasoline. Eyvi Agredawho passed away days later.
