She was prosecuted for attacking her ex, her lawyer says she defended herself

Mariana Lucero was prosecuted because on Friday the 22nd she wounded her ex-partner, José Cayetano, with a knife in La Toma. In addition to being charged with a criminal prosecution for “Serious Injuries”, she is prohibited from approaching the man, because she is seen as a danger to him. For José Olguín, the young woman’s lawyer, such a judicial resolution seems typical of the world upside down. Since during the investigation, from the outset, they treated as a victim who, in reality, was always the aggressor; and as a potential murderer, a woman who only tried to stop the blows. “Justice never took into account that Mariana is a single woman, who was entered into the house by a jealous guy, who was violent with her throughout their relationship and who once shot an ex of hers, out of jealousy. Then he grabbed her by the neck, threw her to the ground and hit her. And she had no right to do anything? “, remarked the lawyer.

The lawyer advanced to The newspaper That is why he will appeal the decision of the Criminal Investigating Judge 3 of San Luis, Virginia Palacios, because like other court decisions “it totally lacks a gender perspective.” “The case was trivialized because they forgot about Cayetano’s violent history, the origin of the aggression and his conduct in the event, because he himself admitted that he attacked her. Nothing, only the objective fact that he was injured was taken into account and they forgot the rest, “he said.

For Olguín, the young woman did not commit any crime, she only exercised legitimate defense. In fact, “that circumstance of her defense can be clearly seen in the man’s statement, because he says that the attack begins, he acknowledged that he pushes her, grabs her by the neck and throws her to the ground,” he stressed.

The first thing that Cayetano would have to explain is what he was doing at 1:30 in the morning at the house of Lucero, from whom he is separated, said the defendant’s lawyer. This is explained by the fact that he was always prowling the woman’s home and Friday the 22nd was no exception. “He saw the father of one of Mariana’s children come out, who had gone to see the baby who had been burned, and who knows what he thought, he waited for the other man to leave and went to my client’s to make a jealous scene, “he commented. Then he began to attack her.

In fact, the moment that Cayetano described as the one in which he tried to dodge the blow does not coincide with a defense attempt on his part, but with one in which he hit Lucero, maintains the defender. “He said he tried to cover himself with his arm when Mariana grabbed the knife, but the knife hit him on the inside of the forearm … For him to have been injured there, where they normally draw blood for tests, his arm would have to to have been open, up, in attack position and not of defense “, explained.

“It was just a blow, there was no repetition or any attempt to continue fighting on the part of my client,” he remarked. What’s more, when Lucero saw that his ex was bleeding, he tried to help him. “He walked away and she told him ‘come, come’ because she saw blood coming out of his arm,” he said.

That was something that even Cayetano acknowledged in his statement. He related that, after the injury, the woman followed him and that he did not know if he was doing it because he wanted to continue fighting or because he wanted to help him.

“A year and a half ago he shot an ex of Mariana in the leg. That cause was classified as minor injuries. My client tried to defend herself with a Tramontina knife, because he entered her house to hit her, and they took that as attempted murder. I do not understand the attitude of Justice to defend this guy … “, he criticized. He said that another former Lucero came to the point of having to move from La Toma due to the constant threats he received from Cayetano, who made himself look armed.

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