“Our minds are still the same as on the first day, which minds will change depending on the course of the case,” said Rafael Ramírez, brother of the murdered lawyer and professor at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD). , Yuniol Ramírez.
Ramírez’s body was found on the morning of October 12, just hours after he was reported missing, when a fisherman spotted a body with a chain around his neck tied to a block submerged in the Manoguayabo River, in Hato New. .
It will be 1,213 days later that the protagonist involved in his death, Argenis Contreras, will learn of the degree of coercion for his connection to the fact.
At around 2 p.m., Contreras’s lawyer, Plutarco Jáquez, released the information that the fourth investigating judge of the national district had instituted the hearing to lift the insurgency case for today at 10 a.m. and informed of the measure of coercion against his client.
The hearing will be chaired by Judge Kenya Romero, acting judge of the National District’s fourth investigating judge. It will take place in the courtroom of the eighth criminal court, located in the Palace of Justice of the National District.
Mirna Ortiz, representative of the Attorney General’s Office, explained that allegations of murder, association of criminals, body concealment and administrative corruption weigh against Argenis and they ask to send him to a merit trial.
The Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Administrative Corruption (PEPCA) prosecutor requested one year of preemptive detention as a coercive measure against Contreras.
He added that the file supports few differences between the file against José Antonio Mercado Blanco (El Grande), an accomplice of Argenis Contreras accused as perpetrator.