Justice accused the 39-year-old man who had been arrested hours before and taken to a court in the city of Rocha for the crime of Lola Chomnalez (14). Two DNA made to the man coincide with the one found in the backpack that Chomnalez had at the time of his deathsources in the case told The Observer Thursday night after audience.
Was a prosecution with prison, for very especially aggravated homicide, indicated, for his part, the spokesman for the prosecution, Javier Benech. The investigation is carried out under the characteristics of the previous Code of Criminal Procedure.
as he knew The Observerthe Scientific Police collated every Friday – even until now – the DNA found on the towel and Chomnalez’s identity card, with the genetic information from its database, collected in the week with all the people who enter the prison system. A relative of the now accused is in prison, and the DNA allowed the now accused to reach him, who did not testify at the hearing.
After the first DNA tested positive, The man was arrested during a police operation in Chuy this Thursdayand taken to testify at a hearing that began around 8:00 p.m. He has two records for injuries and rape, in 2003 and 2009said this Thursday morning sources of the case to The Observer.
“The fundamental test was a DNA analysis in the maternal line of the accused person. It coincided 99.9% with the samples found in the towel and in Lola’s DNI, at the time of her discovery, ”said the prosecutor Jéssica Pereira before the press, in Rocha.
He is the only suspect perpetrator of the homicide, occurred against the young Argentine in December 2014, in the Valizas spa. The dictated this Thursday by the Justice is not the definitive sentence, but it is the beginning of the penal process.
The disappearance of the Argentine teenager, on December 28, 2014, and the investigation into her murder was the crime with the most television coverage of the decade, according to a study by the company Foco. Chomnalez walked from the house that his godmother rented in Valizas towards Aguas Dulces and did not return. Two days later she was found dead on some dunes.
In seven and a half years, 40 people were investigated but the DNA of none of them coincided until this Thursday, with the one found in Chomnalez’s backpack. Nor did it coincide with that of El Cachila, a stamp vendor who declared that he had seen the young woman die and was the only person charged with the murder.
