The arguments in the trial of a man for the disappearance and murder of his childhood friend, the lawyer Salvador Altamura, which occurred in July 2020, will begin this Friday in the courts of Quilmes, judicial sources reported. The hearing will be this Friday morning in the hearing room of the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 3, located on the ground floor of the Quilmeño judicial palace at 465 Hipólito Yrigoyen Avenue. The debate has as the only accused Rubén Darío Dening (55), who faces charges for the crime of "robbery qualified by the use of a real key in real competition with homicide criminis causa", to the detriment of Altamura, which provides for a prison sentence life. Judicial sources informed Télam that the first to plead will be the trial prosecutor, Andrés Nieva Woodgate, after which the lawyer representing Altamura's family, Brian Vidal, and the defender, Matías Aquino, will do so. At the end of the day, judges Rubén Darío Hernández, Alejandro Oscar Portunato and Julián Busteros will announce the date on which they will dictate the verdict. At the final hearing of the trial, Dening testified for four hours, maintaining his innocence and saying he wants his "friend" to be found. The accused said that Altamura had "debts" and that in the days before his disappearance he saw him "scared and wanted to leave." Asked about the reasons why he fled when he was charged, the accused maintained that he was afraid and that the money that was kidnapped when he was captured was from his "own savings." In turn, Dening said he did not remember what he did between 5 and 11 p.m. on July 13, 2020, when investigators believe Altamura was murdered, and he assured the lawyer that he "loved him very much" and that he He helped train to race a motorcycle. In the first hearing, prosecutor Nieva Woodgate accused Dening of having committed the murder of Altamura with the aim of stealing money from him and highlighted that he did so "so effectively that he managed to make her body disappear."