The Gesell camera footage of Rocío Quagliariello, the only survivor of the so-called “Monte Massacre”, in which four young people died after a police pursuit and subsequent crash in San Miguel del Monte, will be reproduced today during the fifth hearing of the jury trial followed by four agents from Buenos Aires for the act, judicial sources reported.
At 10 o’clock, the fifth hearing of the debate led by the president of the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 4 of our city, Carolina Crispiani, began in La Plata and is taking place in Room A of the judicial courts of the provincial capital. , located at 8 between 56 and 57.
In that place, the Gesell camera statement of Rocío Quagliariello (17) was issued, who was seriously injured after the Fiat 147 in which she was traveling collided after a police pursuit of shots against the trailer of a parked truck, made for which his companions died: Camila López (13), Danilo Sansone (13), Gonzalo Domínguez (14) and Aníbal Suárez (22).
For this fact, the former Buenos Aires police captain Rubén Alberto García and the officers Leandro Ecilape, Mariano Ibáñez and Manuel Monreal, currently all detained, are currently being tried.
As for Quagliariello’s statement, who until now has witnessed all the debate hearings, the spokespersons explained that he made it this way since he is a minor.
BETWEEN TEARS, HE BROKE
“We heard two shots, Gonzalo clutched his knee. He said it hurts, it burns me. Aníbal was driving. I don’t remember how many blocks they followed us,” Rocío recalled crying.
“When we saw the truck we crouched down,” he continued. They asked her if she remembered what the boys in the car were saying and she replied: “We didn’t know what to do. I don’t remember anything.”
“When I woke up in the hospital I didn’t remember anything, they told me. They told me that all my friends had died.”
Previously, as stated in the request for trial, the teenager had indicated that she remembered that on the day of the event she and Camila López “yelled at Aníbal Suarez to stop the car and that he told her that he could not because he did not have the papers.” of it and “they were going to take it out”. In turn, the file states that Rocío indicated that, during the police pursuit, Gonzalo Domínguez began to say: “They shot me, they shot me, it burns me.”
Following this, the doctors and psychologists who treated Rocío during the two months she was hospitalized at the El Cruce hospital are expected to give their testimony, where she had to undergo surgery five times due to the serious injuries she suffered. Also, the declaration of ballistic experts from the National Gendarmerie (GNA) is expected.
DECLARED THE BIOCHEMIST OF THE POLICE
Jorgelina Garrote integrates the Police Laboratory and where the blood samples were analyzed. “The sample is received in the laboratory and stored until the moment of the analysis. I am not there at the time of taking it. The recommendation is that the sample that is received from corpses be taken as soon as possible. They send sealed bags containing the sample and with a label in which the data of the cause are recorded. The sample is described as received. It does not have preservatives. Preservatives are added to the samples so that there is no microbial development. When there is a corpse there is putrefaction and the bacterial development is greater. They are the ones that intervene in the putrefaction process that are the ones that transform glucose. It means that there may be alcohol in the blood that cannot be differentiated.”
In his testimony, he explained: “We did not determine the presence of bacteria. There are samples that come from bodies that have had positive values. Analyzing only the blood sample, it is difficult to reach a conclusion if it is alcohol or comes from bacterial intervention. The sample It was in an apparent state of putrefaction. The state is immediate. That is why it cannot be determined if they took it or if it is from the bacteria. They are kept frozen at minus 18 or 20 degrees until the moment the study is carried out because it is the temperature at which bacteria production stops.
Could the bacteria have had an impact? they asked him. “In the period of time that it was preserved, no. In the constitution when positive states are reported, the clarification about the origin of the alcohol is not made. If the preservatives are clarified because there is no way to differentiate. We only report a result, not provenance. The sample was in a possible state of putrefaction.”
“Finish Off the Boys”
During the previous hearing, a witness who was 50 meters from where the Fiat 147 crash occurred stated that he saw a police officer in a shooting position with the “intention to finish off” the victims after the impact of the car against the trailer of a truck, and then heard a gunshot. This situation was added to the story of the driver of the impacted truck, named Héctor Mensi, who during the third day of the debate claimed to have heard four shots before the crash and two after.
The trial began last Monday with the election of the popular jury that within six days must define whether the accused police officers are guilty or not guilty of the crimes of “aggravated homicide due to abuse of duty as a member of the police forces qualified by employment of firearms, and violation of the duties of a public official”.
In the guidelines of the accusation, the trial prosecutor Sibuet said that the accused police officers committed an “atrocious act”, that they acted in an “unmotivated” manner and affirmed that the victims, “when they found themselves surrounded”, experienced moments of “terror, anguish and fear”, for which he asked the popular jury to “issue a fair opinion to honor justice”.
The Monte Massacre
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.
