Convicted Culprit of the Cascallares Tragedy Receives Law Degree in Prison

This Friday, Nicolás Avots Sugimoto, convicted of being guilty of the so-called Tragedy of Cascallares, which occurred on November 26, 2012, was received as a lawyer this Friday at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, within the framework of a special education program in confinement contexts offered by the house of higher studies from Bahia.

It was received with a 10, and the particularity of the case was that the person who directed the final work of Avots was Dr. Gabriel Giuliani, who sentenced him as a member of the Oral Criminal Court in 2015, in a sentence that was also signed by judges Fabiana Brandolín and Carlos Mazzini.

Avots has been detained since April 26, 2018, after Cassation confirmed the sentence of “quintuple homicide with eventual intent”, in the Saavedra Prison, and he has a little more than 4 and a half years left to serve his sentence.

the educational program
The Saavedra Penal Unit is a complex -next to UP No. 4 of Bahía Blanca- that is associated with the study program offered by the Universidad del Sur, whose purpose is to give inmates access to a tool such as education for reintegrate into society and break that circle of recidivism that is worrisome in the province of Buenos Aires. Avots is the first UNS student to graduate in this context of confinement.

The fact
The Cascallares Tragedy occurred on route 3, kilometer 508, near Micaela Cascallares, when Avots carried out a maneuver to pass a bus from the El Rápido Company, in a hilly sector, and caused the accident in which Darío Ezequiel died García, his partner, Guillermina Cirone and his 7-year-old nephew Matías, all from Tres Arroyenses, when the VW Goal hit the bus. Then Amalia Beatriz Muñoz, five months pregnant, also died. The only survivor was José García, husband of the latter.

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