Three relatives of Nicolás Pachelo, the main defendant in the crime of María Marta García Belsunce, will testify this Wednesday in the case in which the death of his father, Roberto Pachelo, which occurred in 1996 and was initially considered a suicide, is being investigated, sources reported. judicial.
The witnesses summoned for this session are Janqueline Barbará, then wife of Roberto Pachelo; Sebastián Codeau, son of the woman’s first marriage, and Rodolfo Oscar Pachelo, brother of the late Roberto.
The three were summoned by the judge of Guarantees 5 of San Isidro, Diego Martínez, and the first two must appear after 9 o’clock at the headquarters of the Homicide Division of the North Conurbano Departmental Headquarters, at 1400 Cazón Avenue, in that district, while the third was summoned at noon, the sources detailed.
While, This Thursday, starting at 10, a brother-in-law of Pachelo Sr., Osvaldo Juan Lynzz, and two friends of the deceased were summonedEnrique Héctor Victorica and Dionisio Alcides Simón, the latter also employed his in the tosquera that he had from Pilar.
The judicial sources told Télam that Judge Martínezwho in September had rejected a request to grant the definitive dismissal of Nicolás Pachelo for the death of his father Roberto, now intends to give a new impetus to the investigation with these testimonials to try to establish whether there was a crime committed.
Since the fact under investigation occurred in 1996, 26 years ago, when the accusatory criminal system in charge of the Public Prosecutor’s Office did not exist, the case is investigated directly by a judge, in this case Martínez, who in San Isidro is the judge of Guarantees that absorb all the causes that have remained from that time, in transition.
The death of Roberto Pachelo
Roberto Pachelo was found dead on January 9, 1996 from a shot to the head at his house in the Buenos Aires district of Pilar, and the judicial file was provisionally closed by the then Criminal and Correctional Judge 11 of San Isidro, Marcelo García Helguera, who found no elements to presume the existence of a crime and considered that it had been committed. dealt with a “suicide”.
In his resolution of February 12, 1996, Judge García Helguera issued the “provisional dismissal” of the case “pending new evidence that leads to its reopening.”
Nevertheless, On September 22, prosecutors Patricio Ferrari, Andrés Quintana and Federico González, in charge of the prosecution of Nicolás Pachelo in the trial for the crime of María Marta, requested that the defendant be investigated as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of his father.and Judge Martínez granted the request.
Although the fact under investigation occurred more than 26 years ago, the Public Ministry indicated that the criminal action has not yet prescribed for Pachelo Jr. because he was accused of another series of crimes in 2003, 2015 and 2017 and is still accused of the crime of Garcia Belsunce.
According to the sources, the magistrate’s decision was based on the fact that there are new pieces of evidence that would link Pachelo Jr. as the perpetrator of his father’s crime, which were included by judicial officials through witness statements in the context of the murder trial. of the sociologist, committed in October 2002, and in which the prosecution requested a sentence of life imprisonment for the defendant.
Among the most important evidence presented by the prosecution to request the reopening of the case is also the result of autopsy on the body of Pachelo Sr., which indicates that no traces of gunpowder explosion were found in his hands at the time he was found dead with a shot to the head in the bed of his room in his house in Pilar.
