The May 22, 2019 The court prosecuted Ángel Moreira, a citizen of Rivera, known as El Cachila, as co-author of the murder of the young Argentine Lola Chomnalez, murdered at the end of December 2014 in the Valizas (Rocha) resort. He was classified as co-author of a simple homicide aggravated by treachery, and he went to jail.
El Cachila was a stamp vendor based in Rivera who in April 2015 declared having seen the young woman die. In 2015, he stated that he saw Chomnalez faint and fall to his knees; his testimony was always confusing and changing. According to his defense, he had no criminal record, was addicted to drugs and suffers from various illnesses.
He had been investigated in April 2015 for this case but had been released. In February 2019, a new prosecutor, Jorge Vaz, took over the case, who after analyzing the entire file cited him again as being investigated and requested that he be prosecuted, but for cover-up. The line of investigation is based on the fact that more than one person participated in the murder of Chomnalez, and the prosecutor considered that there was no doubt that El Cachila was one of them. In any case, the DNA of this man did not match the one found in the teenager’s pareo, so there was no evidence that it was El Cachila who killed her.
as he knew The Observer So, the Scientific Police checked every Friday the DNA found on the towel and Chomnalez’s identity card, with the genetic information from its database, collected during the week with all the people who enter the prison system..
confusing statements
The autopsy revealed that Chomnalez had two cuts on his right arm, one slashing and one stabbing. A struggle is also expressed in a blow that the young woman presented on the left side of her forehead, which in the opinion of the prosecution “is clearly contrary to logic that she left the beach, voluntarily towards the wooded area. behind the dune, with some strangers”.
On a hot Sunday, December 28, 2014, El Cachila, in the company of other people, walked from Aguas Dulces to Valizas. As detailed by the prosecution in its opinion, around 3:00 p.m., near an area known as “Arinos”, they met Lola, who was walking in the opposite direction.
The time of the death of the minor coincides with the time that the technicians say that the defendant said he had been with her. The Cachila then declared that at the time he passed her the sun was strong and it was very hot. He said that he left the victim at the location where the body was found and gave details of what the victim was carrying. They coincide with those that were located 15 days after the crime, a few meters from the place where the body was.
In addition, he stated at one point during the investigation of the case that came to talk for an hour with the Argentine teenager after crossing paths with her on the beach a mile and a half from the Aguas Dulces resort.
This is how he declared it before the Justice: “I fought with her. She came along the beach walking, I went to Valizas and she went to the other side. I came from Aguas Dulces,” she declared. He even went so far as to give a description of how the young woman was dressed. She “she was walking normally, with her backpack. She had shorts and a thin blouse, ”she stated.
“Hello, my friend (sic), I offer you a stamp,” the defendant said to the young woman, who was interested in what that artisan was selling. The prosecution had charged that the man and his companions forced Chomnalez to leave the beach In the direction of a forest, probably with a sexual motive.
In his statement, The Cachila acknowledged having taken the young woman to the trees, although he denied that it was by force. According to the statement that prosecutor Vaz cited in his indictment request, the man accompanied her under the shade of a tree because he felt bad, “which is clearly illogical and contrary, not only to the evidence that emerges from the body of the victim, but of the situation itself.
The Cachila described the place as a kind of natural “cave” formed by bushes against the sand dune, a place where there was grass and where an acacia tree stood out. He also said that there were horses a few meters from the place, which the prosecution could prove were grazing in the surroundings on the day of the crime, and described the backpack that the young woman was carrying and the bottle of still water with which she had provided herself for do the long walk.
However, the defendant’s defense attorney, Yésica Biquez, maintained that El Cachila was not at the place where Lola was killed and that when he gave details about the scene of the incident, it was because he was “pressured” by the police to speak up.
However, in the opinion of prosecutor Vaz, “the precision with which (the Cachila) describes the place where the body (of Chomnalez) was found is surprising.”
The man had assured that that day they were sitting with more people under a tree, with grass around. He stated that he took her pulse and then he left. However, his lawyer argued that she heard these details from the police themselves and that many of the things she confessed were not accurate. “For something at that time with everything that was there, the prosecutor at the time did not request anything,” said the lawyer.
