Nahir Galarza’s name continues to be in the news. After the release of the film about his life, starring Valentina Zenere, came his own two-episode docuseries. And 7 years after the murder of Fernando Pastorizzo, his lawyer, José Ostolaza, revealed that he follows a routine that includes visits to the doctor and psychologist, and works in the prison bakery.
In addition, he is studying programming and computing. Recently, he also began a relationship with a fellow inmate from prison number 1 in Paraná. Regarding his perception of the sentence, the lawyer reflected on Nahir’s awareness of the life sentence. “It’s a difficult question. I always saw her very calm, even when I saw her frequently, I never saw her broken or dejected. Maybe she doesn’t fully understand the magnitude of the pain. At the time she was only 19 years old, it’s a young girl. I never saw her in a state of deep anguish. I don’t know if she really understands what she has gone through,” he concluded.
The lawyer had expectations that in 2024 the Supreme Court would review and modify the ruling. But the result was adverse. “The Supreme Court demonstrated its obsolete structure, missing the opportunity to educate society by basing each item on whether Nahir was convicted by a sexist, patriarchal, misogynistic and arbitrary justice system or whether it was a record case where a teenage woman was convicted in such only six months with clear intentions to demonstrate that women also kill and to establish the first macicide in Argentina as an absurd counterpart to femicides. It is important that people are not deceived: the Court did not confirm any ruling, but rather, relying on a medieval article like Art. 280, it washed its hands of it, did not get involved, and left it to an international court to decide,” he declared. Jorge Zonzini.
The media manager and author of the book “The Silence of Nahir, Chronicle of a Media Lynching” questioned the last ruling, in which the highest court avoided studying the sentence to life imprisonment against Nahir Mariana Galarza. The woman, who at the time of the crime was 19 years old, was the youngest to receive such a prison sentence as the only accused for the murder of Fernando Pastorizzo 20 years old.
“It will be the Inter-American Court of Human Rights who will analyze the controversial case that, without a doubt, became an unprecedented audiovisual phenomenon with books, a film and a two-chapter documentary series that reflects a very strong psychosocial debate in public opinion, social networks and the media. both national and international,” said Zonzini.
The defense of Nahir Galarza, composed of doctors José Ostolaza and Pablo Sotelothey will enter the presentation before the Inter-American Court of Human Rightsbased in San Jose, Costa Rica. According to the lawyers, in addition to the complaint before the IACHR for non-compliance with the agreements signed by Argentina on Gender Violence and Protection of Women (Belem Do Para, 1994), this would be the door for the annulment of the trial carried out in Between Rivers.
The Entre Ríos justice confirmed the use of apocryphal expertise and for which the expert Gabriela Laiño She won 14,000,000 pesos from the provincial State for having been forced to examine Galarza and Pastorizzo’s cell phones as “computer science” without being a specialist. Laiño is a food scientist and accused the prosecutors of the case, Sergio Rondoni Caffa and Lisandro Beheran, of forcing her to prepare apocryphal acts against the convicted young woman. According to the defense, if an expert report is apocryphal, as the final ruling against the province of Entre Ríos confirms, all other expert reports are null and void.
Seven years have passed since the emblematic crime of Gualeguaychú, which occurred on December 29, 2017. That day, Pastorizzo was killed with two gunshots: one in the back and another in the chest. According to evidence and testimonies collected, and after Nahir herself blamed herself, she was convicted in the first instance in July 2018 for considering her guilty of homicide aggravated by the bond, since she maintained a stable relationship with the victim.
In 2022, Nahir Galarza denounces his father as the author of the crime, and also denounces that he had violated his mother several times, Yanina Kroh, who confirmed and supported his daughter’s version. “I believe what my daughter says, that the person who killed Pastorizzo was her father,” Kroh confirmed. According to this version, the former police officer exercised such psychological control over his daughter that, after committing the crime, he had forced her to incriminate herself.
From that date to the present, Galarza has been the subject of intense media scrutiny, which has captured the attention of public opinion and national and international media, becoming a phenomenon that goes beyond crime. Books, streaming series, documentaries and a film have been made in recent times in relation to the young woman from Entre Ríos.
the movie “Nahir”, starring Valentina Zenere, that dramatizes the known story, was just one step on a path towards the search for a narrative that the trial failed to show. Added to this is “Nahir, Angel or Demon”a series of twelve episodes that the production company Zeppelin Studio produced inspired by the controversial police case. But also the producer Kapow (Carmel, The Rati Horror Show) prepared a 3-episode documentary about the case.
According to a note by Tomás Rodríguez published in Noticias, for these two productions, Galarza received the total amount of 500,000 dollars in exchange for assigning the rights (300,000 for the first production and another 200,000 for the second). This week the start of pre-production of a new series of twenty-two chapters was announced that will show a very elderly Nahir Galarza leaving prison at 54 years of age after supposedly serving the entire sentence.
“As an artistic concept, it is undeniable that it is a seductive project, but it would be pure fiction, since I have no doubt that the International Court of Human Rights will revoke this shameful ruling against a teenage woman. The miniseries would show that, as I wrote in my book, Nahir would continue despite 35 years in prison harassed by media lynching and would demonstrate that life imprisonment is a hidden death penalty, since Nahir, if released at that age, He would not have any member of his family alive or roots or life plans,” Jorge Zonzini highlighted.
by RN
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