Homicide prosecutor Adriana Edelman gave statements to the press on Monday regarding the case of the 26-year-old man who killed, dismembered and threw his neighbor in Colón (Montevideo) to the pigs, explaining that He is an unimpeachable person, despite the fact that the investigation was formalized.
“Your ability to understand and love is affected and cannot appreciate the illegality of his actsEdelman said.
The case will proceed as if it were an indictable person, through a trial. However, he made it clear that Due to its unimputable quality, there is no possibility of carrying out abbreviated processesbecause “he is unable to accept the facts based on his limited capacity”.
The prosecutor declared that a extensive psychiatric expertise “because at first glance its affectation was already noticed”, and a diagnosis of an “alienating psychosis” was established, for which will be admitted to the Vilardebó Hospital. Asked about the man’s statement that the victim had raped his sister, Edelman said that “the Prosecutor’s Office took the precaution of investigating that point,” but so far there is no element that indicates that this has happened.
The crime occurred this Sunday at the height of Pasaje Rocinante and Continuation of the Apero, where the Police attended after a complaint of strong altercations. There, they found the presence of human remains in a pig pen. The murderer was at the door of the house with his bloody clothes, and he admitted to having committed the crime. The author He already had a criminal record and was imprisoned.
Why was he declared incompetent?
According to a report by the expert witness Gabriel Barreiro that Edelman read at the hearing, the defendant “was not able to understand the illicit nature of his acts and to freely determine himself” as a result of his chronic schizophrenic-type psychosis.
This illness “profoundly compromises their critical judgment as well as their capacity for impulse control, self-care, and self-determination.”
In addition, since she was not under continuous treatment for her pathology, she presented “significant clinical elements of decompensation” with respect to her, which “have generated great behavioral alterations.”
Step by Step
The prosecutor reported at the hearing that the man went at 4:00 p.m. to the property where he would commit the crime, a place where they raise pigs in the Colón neighborhood. His motivation was to bring justice against those who, he believed, had raped his 4-year-old sister. East Thought was a product of his pathology.
The victim, who had nothing to do with it, passed by the place occasionally and started an argument with the defendant who then hit him with a blunt object. After that, she dismembered him and threw various parts of his body to where the pigs eat so that his remains would quickly disappear. He used a grinder, scissors and a handsaw that he found in a shed.
The Police entered the scene when the person in charge of the place called them, who saw the discussion between the men and recognized the murderer whom he described as an “unbalanced” and crazy person“. When the troops arrived, they saw a bloodstain, dismembered human remains and the person responsible sitting under a tree. As soon as they consulted him, he recognized what he had done, why and with what tools.
