Policiales

The trial of "El Carnicero" begins for the crime of a Spanish businessman

In December 2017, the victim's former son-in-law, Santiago Corona, had been sentenced to the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Now it is the turn of who was one of the most wanted fugitives in Argentina after the crime perpetrated in a building in Caballito.

  • 04/10/2023 • 21:01

A court will begin judging next Monday a Paraguayan citizen nicknamed "El Carnicero" who managed to remain for five years as one of the most wanted fugitives in Argentina, accused of being one of the two murderers who in 2017 was filmed by the cameras of a building in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito, descending, by an elevator and wrapped in a bedspread, the body of the Spanish businessman Roberto Fernández Montes, who later appeared burned in Cañuelas, judicial sources reported. This is the second oral trial that there will be for the murder of Fernández Montes (67), since in December 2017 the victim's ex-son-in-law, Santiago Corona (41), had been sentenced to the maximum sentence of life imprisonment. This second defendant who will be put on trial is Pedro Ramón Fernández Torres (57), who had fled to his native country, Paraguay, and managed to remain a fugitive from Justice for five years despite having an international arrest warrant with a red alert from Interpol. and was finally arrested on February 8, 2022 in the city of Concepción, about 400 kilometers north of Asunción, and then extradited to our country. His nickname, "El Carnicero", is directly related to the fact that he worked in a business in the El Olimpo neighborhood a few blocks from his home in 9 de Abril, Buenos Aires district of Esteban Echeverría, and when he was located and arrested in Paraguay, he also He had a job in a butcher shop. The accused had managed to escape three days after the crime because, following an anonymous tip, investigators from the Homicide Division of the Federal Police mistakenly detained a mechanic linked to Corona who was imprisoned for a few days, but later showed by his physiognomy and because of his tattoos, he was not the man who appeared with him in the videos and was released. The debate will be led by the same Criminal Oral Court (TOC) 5 that acted in that first trial, although with a different composition of its three judges: Cintia Oberlander will preside and her colleagues Alejandro Nocetti and Juan Manuel Grangeat will act as members.