The jury trial for the murder of Cecilia Strzyzowski in Chaco concludes. After closing arguments yesterday, the public jury began deliberations and a verdict is expected today. All instructions below are given by technical judge Dolly Fernandez.
As is known, the accused are Cesar Sena, Emerenciano Sena, Marcela Acuña, Fabiana González, Gustavo Obregon, Gustavo Melgarejo and Griselda Reynoso.
“They murdered Cecilia. It’s not politics, it’s femicide,” prosecutor Juan Martín Bogado said in his closing speech.
“From the beginning, I told them to imagine a puzzle. Today they are faced with all the evidence, all the details. There is only one possible image: Cecilia was murdered by people who believed themselves to be above justice,” he added.
According to Bogado’s exhibition, Cecilia’s life changed dramatically after her marriage to Cesar Sena. “He was the target of hostility,” the official said.
“If Marcela declares through her mother Acuña, all three will go down,” Bogado said again and again, pointing to the pact of silence that decided the fate of the victims.
For the defendants, the prosecutor argued, “it was an obsession to remove Cecilia from their circle. They promised her a false inheritance, offered her money and even arranged a job for her in the south of the country to create an alibi, which turned out to be a fatal trap.”
And so the greatest challenge in Chaco’s history reaches its limit – justice or silence, truth or fear. Only the verdict will determine whether Cecilia Strzyzowski’s ordeal will finally be answered.
In an unusual move, Gabriela Tomljenovic, the lawyer for Cesar Sena, one of the men accused of killing Cecilia Strzyzowski, said she was “not sure” whether her client was the mastermind behind the crime.
Since then, Acuña’s legal representative has taken a “cover-up” path, with Emerenciano Sena’s defender Ricardo Osuna saying, “There is no evidence against him.”
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