They acquitted five accused in the death of Matias Braganolo, a teenager who was beaten to death in Palermo.

Five defendants were acquitted of participation in their murder Matias BraganoloA teenager who died from a blow to the head in April 2006 After the gang attacked Palermo in the Buenos Aires district, judicial sources said.

The unanimous decision was reached by the Oral Court of Juveniles (TOM) after 2 hearings held in the basement of the 2002 Comodoro Pi Courts in the Retiro district, benefiting the last five people in the case. Although they are now adults, they were under the age of 18 at the time of the incident, which occurred more than 16 years ago.

“I think it’s a very bad sign for society that there is some impunity for those who operated through the gang. Marcelo Braganolo, the father of the young man, convinced the next ruler.

The man explained that they will wait for the basis of the verdict, which will be announced on October 24, although he said that “It wasn’t what I expected” Because “there was enough evidence” to convict them.

“The judicial system is one of the biggest debts that the country owes to society, this is another example. A case that took more than sixteen years to resolve, I don’t know if that happens in many countries around the world,” he concluded.

In a dialogue with Télam, lawyer Jorge Álvarez Berlanda, representing the victim’s father, said that the prosecutor’s office requested in its complaint a year and six months in prison for two defendants, and a year for the other three. The crime of “aggravated murder”.

This crime occurs when the aggressor acts with the intention of harming another person, by means suitable for doing so, but ultimately results in death.

Meanwhile, the appeal asked Tom 2 to sentence one of the men to five years in prison and four years to the others, while the defense asked for their acquittal.

“The instructions were terrible, the lawyers never agreed to the reconstruction under the pretext that the traffic on Figueroa Alcorta should be stopped, it’s all nonsense, but this is the last step I have left,” said the father before. Todo channel news.

There was another trial in the case, in which on August 29, 2014, TOM 3 sentenced another young man to two and a half years in prison for murder, and a police officer named Luis Oscar Villegas to two years. For “insulting and breaching the duty of an official”, although none of them were imprisoned.

Murder of Matias Braganolo

Matias Braganolo died in the early hours of April 9, 2006, at the door of a building in Ortiz de Ocampo, 2800, where he was sharing a party with friends.

The victim, along with two other boys, left the premises to buy drinks, only to find a mob of the accused attacking them.

A fight then broke out between Braganolo and members of the group that started the attack, causing the victim and his friends to retreat to the building.

Luis Oscar Villegas, who was on duty nearby, came to the scene and, after telling Braganolo to lie on the floor, beat him.

The young man, whose sentence was upheld on appeal, was the one who, it was proven at trial, struck Braganolo first from behind, in the head, which, according to the autopsy, caused the swelling. .

Villegas, a former member of the federal police, kicked Bragagnolo in the body, grabbed him by the neck in the hall of the building where the attack took place, then left him there, passed out on the floor..

According to the experts, the death was caused by “seizures and meningo-encephalic edema with bi-temporal failure”, which is “equivalent to saying that his death was due to a blow”, but not one of those that Villegas could have caused. on him, but those who received it “surprisingly” and from a “group” of people.