Almost a year after the crime, the case against Santiago Thomas Mazzini (38) the AFIP lawyer who ran over and killed the plane pilot Julian Gustavo Gimenez (28) on August 4, 2021, after a traffic discussion in the Buenos Aires party of Vicente López. Giménez died 20 days later in the Olivos Clinicwhile Mazzini was arrested in November, after being a fugitive for three months.
As reported by judicial sources who spoke with North Zone Dailythe defendant’s defense had requested that the fact be classified as manslaughter – a crime that provides for a prison sentence of one to five years – and not for simple homicide, a criminal type that contemplates from eight to twenty-five years in prison.
However, the Judge of Guarantees of San Isidro, Stephen Rossignolirejected the request on the grounds that “it does not seem possible to affirm in this state of investigation that Mazzini did not represent the collision and the fatal result as a result of the difference in the size of both vehicles and the way in which he commanded his ride”.
Mazzini was arrested three months after the crime. He will be tried for simple murder.
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On the other hand, the prosecutor Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) Vicente López East, Martin Gomezstated in the pertinent reconstruction of the facts that Mazzini’s actions implied a “total disregard for the life and humanity of Julián Giménez, with the clear and unequivocal intention of taking his life.”
In addition, the head of the UFI in question stated that the deceased “proceeded to direct his truck pointing towards where Giménez was moving to the point that he dragged him several meters up to the sidewalk, causing both the victim and his motor vehicle to remain ready below the truck described, and without stopping the march at any time”.
Finally, they cited in the request for elevation to trial that, according to the story of Giménez’s mother, the young man told her before he died “this guy stepped on me, he went over me.”
Although for the moment they have not confirmed who will intervene in this instance, Judge Rossignoli has already ordered that the case be sent to the draw of Oral Criminal Court for Mazzini’s trial.
The facts
On August 4, 2021, after 4:00 p.m., the security cameras of the Municipality of Vicente Lopez They captured the moment in which, in the town of Florida, at the intersection of San Martin y Climbing RemediesMazzini rammed his black Jeep Renegade truck -patent AD941LW- into the Aerolineas Argentinas pilot, who was riding a Motomel brand motorcycle.
Julián Giménez, the plane pilot who was run over by AFIP lawyer Santiago Tomás Mazzini in Vicente López.
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As could be seen in the footage, the drivers had been having an argument and right at the crossroads, Giménez hit the left rearview mirror of the victimizer’s truck. At that moment, Mazzini began to enclose the 28-year-old until he fell off the motorcycle, finally passing him over with the vehicle.
“I’m sorry mom, I love you, I love you. I broke his little mirror because he locked me up and this son of a bitch ran over me”the motorcyclist had told his mother from the floor to his mother while they were helping him to transfer him to the Olivos Clinic.
