The lawyer of Nahir galarza, sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of Fernando Pastorizzo placeholder image, said this Sunday that in the new criminal complaint made last Friday by the young woman, this She maintains that her father committed the homicide in front of her and after discovering that the victim had taken, for the fifth time and without permission, his regulation police pistol.
According to the lawyer, the convicted woman told her that Fernando’s crime occurred in a place where there were no security cameras and that “she does not deny being at the scene of the fact “, but rather” adds a person: her father “.
The new complaint
“It was the fifth time that Fernando took out his father’s gun from the top of the refrigerator,” said the lawyer about the gun used in the crime, which belonged to Marcelo Galarza, Nahir’s father and a police officer.
In turn, this regulation pistol was, according to the lawyer, used by Fernando “to force Nahir to end the night with him” and also threaten her.
“That last night it is evident that Fernando saw him arrive at Galarza (father) with his car. He stopped the motorcycle suddenly and that caused it to fall. Nahir, surprised, says: ‘I did not fall, I staggered, I was able to support myself’ “, said the lawyer.
“The gun that Fernando had falls to the ground. When the father got out of the car, he grabs the gun and shoots once. Fernando says: ‘Nahir, call the ambulance.’ But Nahir has no time for anything because the father returns to shoot. He returns the gun to Nahir, as if she ever had it, and makes her go home with the gun. “Hermida Leyenda indicated.
According to the lawyer, Nahir’s father “is a man who knows what he is doing”, on the other hand; the young woman “had no idea what she was doing” and “had never held the gun or fired.”
“And there begins all the confusion of Nahir: Why had her father killed Fernando if he did not know that he was exercising gender violence against her?”, Continued the lawyer, who is in Paraná to monitor the new proceedings before the justice .
“Dad is like that,” Nahir told the lawyer when she asked him why his father killed Fernando.
The lawyer added that after the crime, Nahir’s father met his lawyer, Víctor Rebossio, “a man with many political connections, money” and clarified that “Nahir and the mother do not participate in the meeting”, but that out of the same to the young woman “they give her the order to do everything they say and Nahir complies.”
In turn, the condemned woman also told her that her father did not “defend her from the abuse” that she allegedly suffered from a paternal uncle when she was younger.
Regarding this alleged “child sexual abuse”, the lawyer said that Nahir told an official expert of the Court and explained that she suffered it “day by day, every time her mother left her in the care” of that man, also a police officer. , like his father.
Hermida Leyenda also explained that “family violence was exercised by Marcelo Galarza”, who just last week separated from Yanina, Nahir’s mother, and thus they stopped living together.
According to the lawyer, “the mother was a terrible victim of gender violence “at the time of Fernando’s crime and this Monday he will give a statement to ratify everything denounced.
According to Hermida Leyenda, the cause that began on Friday will be divided into three: “child sexual abuse, gender violence and homicide“.
Nahir’s situation
For her part, Nahir, who is currently 23 years old, was at 19 the youngest woman in the country to have been sentenced to life in prison.
The young woman received the maximum penalty for having been considered the author of the crime of Pastorizzo (20), committed between 5.10 and 5.15 on Friday, December 29, 2017, when the young man was found on a street in Gualeguaychú with a shot in the back and another on his chest, next to his motorcycle and two helmets lying on the ground.
Initially, when testifying as a witness, Galarza said that he had seen the victim the night before the crime, although given the sum of evidence against him, she was detained and in a second statement acknowledged that he had killed him with the weapon of his police father but that it had been “accidental”.
The sentence to life imprisonment was issued on July 3, 2018 by the Gualeguaychú Court of Trial and Appeals and confirmed in July 2019 by Chamber II of the Chamber of Concordia.
