The judiciary imposed a 6-month ban on Sergio Tarache, who is accused of femicide, from leaving the country.

Court sentences Venezuelan citizen to 6 months in pre-trial detention Sergio Tarache Parra (22), alleged feminicide Katherine Gomez (19), who died after allegedly being burned alive by a defendant in the Plaza dos de Mayo on 18 March.

Judge Esquerra Puente de la Vega of the Twentieth Court of Preliminary Investigation of the Court of Lima recognized the prosecutor’s request on March 28, given the grounds put forward by the prosecutor. Carla Castro Herrera at the hearing, which took place today, Thursday.

Judicial failure

The judge, in his decision, considered that the person under investigation “has no established roots” and is in the capacity of “no one”; also that “he has no real procedural residence”.

“The absence of rooting and procedural danger, this office coincides with the position of the prosecutor, since there is no rooting established by the person under investigation, while there is no document that indicates that the person under investigation retains high-quality rooting and flight dangeruntil he is found,” the justice of the peace said.

In addition, the judge pointed out that “it is reasonably assessed that the elements of the guilty verdict linking the person under investigation with the alleged crime have been fulfilled.”

It should be noted that the representative of the judiciary indicated that the prevention of leaving the country is a measure “less harmful than preventive prisonwhich, according to the court, was not requested by the prosecutor’s office.

In turn, the State Ministry argued that in the event of an alleged crime femicide”an aggravated punishment of not less than 30 yearsunder the Criminal Code” against Tarache Parra.

The prosecutor also pointed out that a foreign citizen entered the country in February 2019 “illegally”, through Ecuadorand worked as a “halador” at the plaza May second

“The investigation is at a preliminary level in order to collect the elements of a guilty verdict for further actions that the prosecutor’s office can appoint, therefore it is necessary to guarantee the presence of the person under investigation, since he has the status of a foreigner in the country. “, the prosecutor said. Castro Herrera at today’s hearing.

“I would like the procedures to be expedited”

From my side, Cynthia Macaremother of the victim, in dialogue with RPP News, He indicated that he would have preferred that the action of justice be much faster.

“The truth is that the measure comes when my daughter dies. I expected justice to speed up the procedures, the mess, the paperwork, when she was still in the hospital,” he said.

“Radically, when she dies, they see the seriousness of the case. They just speed up paperwork, procedures, bureaucracy and everything else,” he added.

In turn, she claimed that “losing” her daughter was extremely difficult for her and her family, and demanded that the alleged femicide be caught and that the full weight of the law should fall on him.