The second day of the trial of Eva “Higui” De Jesús was tinged with optimism what it meant for the people mobilized since this Tuesday to demand her acquittal, the presence in the place of Nora Cortiñas and her affirmation that she “would have done the same” as this soccer player who defended herself from the attack of two men causing the death of one of them.
“I am shocked and I ask that they release her. I want her to be acquitted now, without wasting any more time. I think there is nothing else (to do),” said the head of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora on the open radio that works in front of the Courts of San Martín in parallel to the hearings, and as part of the demonstration organized by the Commission for the Acquittal of Higui.
On the second day of the trial, Nora Cortiñas, a member of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo-Línea Fundadora, went to the Courts of San Martín to accompany the request for acquittal for Higui
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“I would have done the same and you would have done the same. Higui did not want to kill anyone,” he said in front of a large group of protesters belonging to LGBT+ organizations, popular feminisms and dissidents. that keep traffic cut off in Balbín at 1700.
Moments before, Cortiñas had gone up to the 10th floor to personally greet Higui before the second hearing begins.
“Let’s think that on the 22nd (March) we will have what it has to be, which is acquittal. Thank you and we are still together,” she added.
Second trial hearing
In the second hearing of the oral debate closed to the press, the witnesses of the prosecutor Liliana Tricarico finished testifying, among whom were the man that Higui identified as the other person who attacked her but who was never investigated as such and three witnesses of the so-called “technicians”, that is, those who were not at the scene of the events but acted afterwards as legal experts.
“It is interesting because today there was a psychologist who attended Higui at first and to whom she had told her how the events were, and who said that what was reported was true because everything she expressed (with her corporality) gave her a I support what he was saying. That was very good because he was a witness for the prosecution”Higui’s defense attorney, Gabriela Conder, told Télam.
On the other hand, a forensic expert offered details of how the only stab wound occurred, which denies what was assured to the press by the family of Cristian Esposito -the deceased man-: The blade entered the chest from the front and not from the back, as the victim’s mother described this Tuesday, suggesting a treacherous attack, according to judicial sources.
“The members of the Recalde family (in-laws of Cristian who were with him before meeting Higui) declared the same thing about the event that was already in the case, with some contradictions,” said Conder.
“Now the defense witnesses come and with them the Higui that we all know will appear, because the entire Recalde family said that she was aggressive, that she was violent and our witnesses are going to say what Higui is really like,” he added about the testimony that relatives and friends of the accused were preparing to give.
Two years late in relation to the first date set for the process, Higui came to trial accused of “simple homicide” for defending herself against a corrective group rape and the person in charge of deciding on the case is the TOC Nº7 of San Martín, integrated by judges Gustavo Varvello, Germán Saint Martin and Julián Descalzo.
“In there I don’t know how I’m holding on, but I go outside and you give me confidence. But it’s fucked up because (the aggressors) are all good today, but if I had been the dead one, nothing would have happened of what is happening, I know I would have taken it as something normal,” Higui said yesterday on open radio.
Why is Higui judged?
The events for which she is being judged took place on October 16, 2016 in Lomas de Marilóa vulnerable neighborhood in Bella Vista where she had gone to visit her sister for Mother’s Day.
And even though She denounced an attempted gang rape and that she was found passed out at the scene, with injuries to different parts of her body, her pants and underwear ripped, the fact was never investigated as such.
Arrested immediately, she would not find out until the next day that the blow she had dealt to the chest of the man who threw herself at her had caused her death.
After eight months in prison, the San Martín Court of Appeals granted her extraordinary release thanks to a strong mobilization to demand her freedom.
