The Supreme Court summoned two fellow judges to intervene in the case Julieta Gonzálezthe young woman who was murdered in 2016 Mendozaand for which Andrés Di Césare is serving a sentence. The justices will begin to define a central point in the case for the application of the number Femicide.
The addition of additional justices is consistent with expectations of a divided vote among the court’s current members. Horacio Rosatti, Carlos Rosenkrantz and Ricardo Lorenzetti, according to the information retrieved Infobae.
The file they are investigating concerns Say Caesarconvicted of the murder of the 21-year-old girl in the city of Mendoza CacheutaLujan de Cuyo. Gonzalez’s body was found bound hand and foot six days after his family reported his disappearance on September 21. It was in a mountainous area near the Almafuerte maximum security prison and nearby they found the victim’s ID card and jacket.
According to the mother’s later account during the trial, Julieta and Andrés had known each other since childhood and after seeing each other again, they began dating, although they both had other partners. The girl told them how the bond with “Andresito” resurfaced and what excursions they went on in different parts of the city for a little over a month. “She told me that he reminded her of the time when they played tag as kids and had their first kiss,” the woman said. Days before the murder, the girl introduced the 26-year-old son of a well-known provincial transport operator as her boyfriend.
The night of the disappearance, the mother of Gonzalez communicated with the young manwho denied knowing anything about his daughter’s whereabouts. He admitted that they had argued that day, that she had scratched him and that he had then hit her in the face; but that he later drove her a few blocks in his vehicle and did not see her again when he got out.
However, forensics found Di Césare’s skin under the victim’s fingernails and her blood in his car. The recordings from the telephone antennas were both in the same place on the night of the crime. In addition, the defendant had carried out research on the Internet how to dispose of a corpse and approximately DNA testing of a fetus from a corpse before the murder was committed. It turned out that the main hypothesis was that González informed him that same day that she was expecting his child.
According to the reconstruction accepted by the courts, the motive for the crime was that González had confessed to being pregnant, which led the young man to act violently. In 2019, he was arrested and tried for the crime. The Mendoza criminal court considered the murder proven, but rejected the aggravating circumstance gender-based violence.
In this way the penalty of 18 years in prison was imposed simple murder, because, as the judges argued, There was no formal relationship There was also insufficient evidence to classify the fact as Femicide. The decision sparked an immediate reaction from organizations such as #NotOneLesswho mobilized quickly.
In 2021 the Second Chamber of the Court of Mendoza changed the classification of the crime because the murder had occurred within a year Context of gender-based violence. Therefore, Di Césare’s prison sentence was changed to life imprisonment according to the article corresponding to the mentioned figure.
Validation was based, among other things, on the condition in which González’s body was left and evidence of power asymmetry. The provincial decision said: “The multitude of injuries and the manner in which the victim’s body was attacked are signs of a disciplinary will, of a takeover by the assailant in the face of the victim’s resistance to submission,” it said. There is no denying that there was a discussion – although the exact content is unknown – and that Di Césare used all the means at his disposal to achieve greater physical fitness suffocate to the death and even hit the court with the stones – to prevail against the weak defense of Julieta González. These circumstances show a clear asymmetry of power, typical of gender-based violence“.
This prompted the defendant’s defense to file various appeals. The process reached the national level through appeal horizontal adjustmentwhich led to the case Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ordered the inclusion after considering the complexity and sensitivity of the case Rocio AlcalaFederal Judge of Resistencia, and Gustavo CastineiraFederal judge of Mendoza, selected by lottery. As this media learned, both have been notified and will be responsible Break the tie if disagreement among the court ministers persists.
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