Fernando Pinos Guevara, the Guarantor Judge of La Matanza, who was in charge of the investigation triple drug femicide of Florencio Varela Before declaring herself incapacitated and sending her to federal court, she said she was the victim of alleged drug threats after suffering two strange robberies at her home several weeks apart.
The judge himself interprets both episodes as messages from intimidation in connection with his intervention in the case of the crime of Lara Gutiérrez, Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo, as indicated in the dialogue with A24 and America.
The first attack occurred on November 2, when five people intercepted the family as they entered the house. “Five people got out, three were armed with 9-millimeter pistols in perfect condition, in a state of unusual violence,” he described Guevara pines.
The attackers bet a gun to his son’s headanother on the back of the judge’s head and a third pointing at his wife. After stealing their phones and the truck, they fled the scene. The vehicle turned up later that day in Fuerte Apache, where police found footprints could not be linked to suspects in the database.
“I already intervened in the triple crime case of Florencio Varela. It was a robbery that was somewhat conspicuous because I came from a family celebration at six in the morning with my family, my two children, an eleven-year-old and a fifteen-year-old, and my mother-in-law, also an elderly person,” said the judge.
And he added: “My wife was driving the car, I get out to open the garage door to get into the truck. At that moment a car appears in the opposite direction, it crosses behind us so we cannot reverse. Five people get out of the car, three people armed with nine-millimeter pistols in perfect condition.”
“The first goes to me, he puts the gun to my temple. The other goes to my wife, he points it at my wife and the other goes to where my children were in the back with my mother-in-law and points it at her.” The striking thing about this robbery is that the person who targeted me was primarily interested in stealing my house keys and phone, nothing more. The only thing he was interested in was taking my phone and house key,” he added.
Then he continued: “We were lucky because even though it was six in the morning, Two cars drove by, one was a taxi and another, I don’t remember what it was. When they saw the commando coup, which was of a large scale because there were many people running with weapons, they became afraid and stopped the car about fifty meters away and stopped on the road because they were afraid to drive further. And I think that situation caused them to have to flee quickly.”
In this sense, the judge questioned the work of the police after the theft of the truck. “It was negligence on the part of the police from the first moment. Ignorance, they didn’t know how to do it, how to behave, and also lack of will because I showed them and they didn’t want it. The first reaction of the police officers, the departments, was that they could not leave the jurisdiction.”
“Given my legal explanation of the situation, they realized it was a very big mistake.” what they have committed. “Still, while I’m fighting them and waiting for the police to come, I’m starting to guide the police a little bit to do their job,” he continued.
Half an hour later, the truck appeared to be “intact,” police said. They put the things they had taken out back in the trunk.
The second episode occurred early on the morning of December 25th when the family was celebrating Christmas outside the house. When they returned, they found the house in complete disarray, although only one of the children’s video game consoles was missing.
According to the judge, this fact reinforces his belief that this was an act of intimidation. “When you see the house, It is not a house in which one can assume that there are goods or values“And just the whole coincidence after this triple criminal case where I tried to take a lot of care of myself, but well, I don’t even have personal custody,” he said.
“They entered my house and turned the whole house upside down, but with the idea that I could see this picture, because they turned around, took it out, opened the cupboards and threw everything on the floor. And for example, they took the console, because I think one of those who came in said ‘I’ll take it’ because they took it because there were no gold chains, no gold watch on the floor and no dollars. They left a portable safe behind, grabbed it and left it on the bed“, the judge assured that he must – as he believes – give an account of the true intentions of the perpetrators.
In A24The judge also tearfully pointed out that, despite his vulnerability and the risks inherent in his work, he had never enjoyed any special protection. “This is clearly related to this file: the idea is to threaten me and make me abandon the work I did in a case in which I finally declared myself incompetent with a lengthy resolution in which I speak about all drug trafficking gangs,” he explained.
He expressed his concern for his family’s safety and the pressure they face on a daily basis: “I am very worried: It’s hard to fall asleep and not think about the fact that I’m going to get up at 3 a.m. with a gun to my head.. “I have spoken to my wife and we need to find an immediate solution because we will end badly.”
During the interview, he ruled out a connection between political power and the triple narco-femicide case: “That is not clear from the file,” he emphasized. However, he regretted that the lack of official custody made him vulnerable and highlighted the impact that media coverage had on his situation: “I think this note puts me in more danger, makes me more vulnerable, because the silence and darkness out there creates insecurity among these criminal gangs.”
The climate of fear affects his entire family, who are even thinking about leaving the country. “My family is completely divided. Everyone is afraid for me, I have brothers and I am afraid for them,” he explained. Pinos Guevara in statements about A24. He told of the suffering of his 80-year-old mother and his mother-in-law, who was deeply affected by the events. “I will have to decide what to do with my life in the future because living like this is also unfair,” he concluded.
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