Overview
- Prosecutor Raúl Garzón ordered preventive detention this week for Claudio Barrelier and for two people accused of aggravated encubrimiento, a measure meant to keep the investigation intact.
- Barrelier is formally accused of sexual abuse with access carnal in real concurrence with a triply aggravated homicide that the Fiscalía frames as a femicide.
- Marianela Palmero, Barrelier’s partner and the mother of his child, was detained after forensic analysis of Barrelier’s cellphone and on July 2 declined to testify before the prosecutor while remaining charged with aggravated encubrimiento.
- Soledad Andreani and Osvaldo Fassetta were also detained on charges of aggravated encubrimiento and have denied knowledge of the crime when questioned by investigators.
- The victim’s mother has publicly demanded life imprisonment and criticized early police delays, and the Fiscalía says it will keep gathering evidence as it prepares the requerimiento de elevación a juicio, the formal step before an oral trial.