Catalina Gutiérrez case: Lawyer Néstor Soto resigned

The professional confirmed that his client had been receiving “frequent visits from a colleague.”Photo: NA

The lawyer Gastón Schonfeld resigned from the defense of Néstor Aguilar Soto, the woman of Catalina Gutiérrez, the 21-year-old girl who was murdered in the city of Córdoba.

This lawyer confirmed to Agencia Noticias Argentinas by insisting that he gave the “inconceivable resignation” due to “inconceivable differences” in the technical conduct of the defense with the an accused person.

In this sense, the professional assured that his client would have been receiving “frequent visits from a colleague” who encouraged him to “uselessly change” defendants.

Schonfeld said that he does not know “under the promises” that this situation occurred, which is why he reported the incident to the Disciplinary Court of the Córdoba Bar Association.

However, he avoided revealing the identity of the new adviser: “I should keep it to myself.”

On the other hand, he expressed feeling “thanks for the professional opportunity and “satisfaction for the technical responsibility”, and said: “As for the absence of the colleague’s professional ethics, I ‘choose to avoid negative feelings and/or negative emotions.

The trial made up of popular juries in which the young man from San Carlos de Bariloche is the accused will begin on December 23 and the Criminal and Correctional Chamber 11 in Córdoba will be responsible for the debate to keep

Soto is being held in preventive detention in Bouwer prison and is accused of the crime of “killing with a certificate of sexual violence and betrayal”, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment, according to the Penal Code.

In the request for an oral debate, according to what was reported by the prosecutor, the evidence collected, the results of expert opinions and the statements were introduced.

According to the prosecutors, “the position of superiority used by Aguilar Soto over his victim is clear, as well as the psychological and symbolic violence he applied until the very moment he took away life his friend regardless.

In addition, during the investigation phase, it was confirmed that there was physical, psychological and symbolic violence by the accused.

The relationship took place in the context of gender violence, characterized by strong discrimination against her because of her status as a woman and the accused putting himself in a better position in relation to the girl .

The femicide

Catalina Gutiérrez was a 21-year-old young influencer who studied architecture at the National University of Córdoba (UNC).

The victim was murdered last Wednesday, July 17, by Néstor Soto who, according to the first reports and his own testimony, was in the middle of an argument they had inside the home of the accused, which started when he told the young woman that he was in love with her, a situation that would not be repeated, a story that will be analyzed during the trial.

A security camera recorded the moment the femicide moved Gutiérrez’s body to the Kennedy area where he abandoned it.

In that place Soto tried to set the vehicle on fire to hide the crime, which he did not do.

The autopsy revealed that Catalina died as a result of being strangled after being severely beaten. (NA)