A scandal shakes Santiago Del Estero. The case of the federal police officer Juan Pablo Fernández, detained for more than four years with preventive detention. They accuse him of having been a hitman. He insists that he is a “parsley.” With no trial in sight until a few weeks ago, the file was recently expedited with a start set for the end of March. His relatives attribute this to the commotion generated by the leak of an audio in which prosecutor Aída Farrán Serlé is allegedly heard acknowledging that Fernández was wrongly accused.
Farrán Serlé, Judge Darío Alarcon, and the coordinating prosecutor Julio Mariano Gómez were reported for this reason before the Council of the Judiciary, where they were accused of “omission of duties, denial of justice and non-compliance with the duties of a public official.”
Fernández is one of the three detained in the case investigating the death of Eduardo Enrique Móttola, 38, who was murdered in his workshop on Pedro León Gallo Street, in the center of the city. The other participants would be Yésica Paola Díaz, a hairdresser with whom Móttola had had a relationship, and Damián Silva, a young man with whom Díaz also had a relationship and who, according to the file, would have given 118 thousand pesos to the woman to pay for the murder. It took investigators two and a half years to converge on that hypothesis, and since then, the three have been behind bars awaiting the trial that will take place between March 19 and April 19.
“Prosecutor Farrán Serlé had three alleged lines of investigation: one was against Móttola’s relatives because a former partner had him scheduled as a ‘little shit’. Another was that he had been Mexicaned for debts with the workshop or the house, but he did not have any debt. And the third was the narco theory, but there was no element in the file that accompanied these versions,” lawyer Gabriel Coronel Chalfón, who represented Valentina Móttola, daughter of the victim, told Clarín.
Fernández’s wife, Ángela María Marín Cruz, maintains that her husband is innocent, that since he left the police he worked in a barbershop and then opened a hairdressing academy with which he lived comfortably. “What they did is distort all the information to have him detained, but he had nothing to do with it,” she maintains. And she tells of her suspicions about a political and judicial network, supported by the audio that went viral.
There the prosecutor Aída Farrán Serlé acknowledges: “How they get to your husband seems crazy to me. What is the justification for the man being detained for four years? Every detention has a reasonable period and they have been fulfilled.” And she continues: ” I know what line of investigation that case should have followed, not this thing. If I am going to hire a hitman, am I going to deposit the money into the hitman’s account? He is a poor man who has had this situation because they needed to close a case.”
by RN
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