Become an unprecedented audiovisual phenomenon, The Nahir case He has revived a public debate that has been out of exit seven years. With two books, a movie and a documentary series, the story of Nahir Mariana Galarza –Condenada to life imprisonment at age 19 for the crime of Fernando Pastorizzo (20), occurred in the early hours of December 29, 2017 in Gualeguaychú – continues to generate controversy both in national and international media and social networks.
This week, The Inter -American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) took a key step at the beginning of the analysis of the appeal presented by Galarza’s lawyersdoctors José Ostolaza and Pablo Sotelo. In the brief, serious procedural arbitrariness are denounced: from the absence of psychological and psychiatric expert opinions to the parties to a judicial instruction that closed in record time – there are six months -, a counter -family from other cases of gender violence that delayed decades in resolving. Also The doubtful validity of key tests is pointed outas ballistic and chemical expertise, and it is noted that the gunpowder test gave negative in the hands of Nahir, a fact that was never duly considered by local justice.
The presentation also includes Film records of judgment and the numerous testimonies collected in the documentary series, where several protagonists of the case offer versions that differ markedly from what was declared during the judicial process. As he pointed out News In previous notes, this contrast between public statements and judicial testimonies has been one of the reasons why the case was settled strongly on the media agenda.
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One of those who took the floor after the treatment of the case was known by the IACHR was Jorge Zonzini, ex -life of the Galarza family and author of the book Nahir’s silence, chronicle of a media lynching. “After the decision of our Supreme Court not to review the case (art. 280), a great instance for Nahir is opened. As I have been saying years ago, The highest international court will not overlook the trout expertise nor the fact that the father has not been investigated, which altered the focus of the investigation from the beginning, “Zonzini said.
He also remarked that LEntre Ríos’s justice could have breached international treaties signed by Argentina in human rights matterssuch as the Convention of Belém do Paraá (1994), linked to the protection of women’s rights and the eradication of gender violence.
In this context, both the fiction film – produced by Zeppelin Studio and starring Valentina ZenereSimón Hempe, Nacho Gadano and Mónica Antonópulos – as the Kapow documentary series, issued by Amazon and Paramount+, have charged a new relevance. Both fictions, which achieved very high levels of audience, not only captured the mass interest for the dramatic of the case, but also put the limits between media narrative, criminal justice and gender stereotypes applied to youth crimes.
Thus, while the IACHR advances in its analysis, The Nahir case question public opinion again And puts uncomfortable questions on the table: did Nahir Galarza judge for the crime committed or to break with the ideal victim’s mold? Was your condemnation the result of objective investigation or the reflection of social prejudices amplified by the media? The answer, perhaps, is no longer only legal: it is cultural and symbolic.
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