Pachelo’s strange messages to his lawyer after life sentence: “I’m up to this point”

After the ruling that ended condemn Nicolás Pachelo (47) to life imprisonment for murdering sociologist María Marta García Belsunce In 2002, the known criminal exchanged strange messages with his lawyer and expressed his resignation over the sentence.

“Raquel came to this point. She was thinking of ending it tonight. I will look for my moment,” Pachelo told his lawyer, Raquel Pérez Iglesias, last Wednesday night on WhatsApp. It is not clear if what the condemned man really meant or implied was that he was looking to commit suicide.

Pachelo’s messages

The messages continued on Thursday morning: “I am saying goodbye little by little. It’s hard for you to understand. But I have nothing more to give or receive. I am explaining it one by one to my loved ones and I am also doing it with you.”

The nation had access to the chats, which began five hours after the ruling of Chamber I of the Buenos Aires Court of Criminal Cassation was announced, which revoked the acquittal that had benefited the former neighbor of the country Carmel – where on October 27, 2002, she was murdered. shot by García Belsunce – and sentenced him to life imprisonment for the homicide.

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On Wednesday at noon, Pachelo was transferred from Unit 12 of Gorina, an open regime establishment, to a maximum security prison in La Plata. The accused murderer did not receive the sentence well. He was convinced that, at any moment, his acquittal would be confirmed in the second instance and that he would order his freedom, as the Buenos Aires media was able to reconstruct.

Concerned about the messages she received on Wednesday afternoon, Pérez Iglesias sent an audio to Pachelo. He responded: “You are a great person and lawyer. I thank you for everything you have done for me.”

Until now, Pachelo was serving a sentence of nine years and six months in prison for a series of robberies that occurred between 2017 and 2018 at the Tortugas Country Club, in Pilar, and in the private neighborhoods Abril and El Carmencito, in Hudson, in Berazategui.

After the first message this morning from Pérez Iglesias, Pachelo responded instantly: “I’m saying goodbye little by little. Is not easy. I can’t speak, I’m not alone. “This goes beyond García Belsunce.”

Pérez Iglesias continued with the exchange of messages and explained to his client that, at that moment, he was analyzing the sentence of judges María Florencia Budiño and Fernando Luis María Mancini to determine the steps to follow.

“I’m sitting working on yesterday’s sentence. Please let me turn around this absurd ruling. If you left right now this would be like this. Don’t give him the pleasure. We are going to revoke it,” Pérez Iglesias wrote.

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Pachelo continued with the reference to taking his own life, but always elliptically. “We are against a corporation, just the three of us (for him, Pérez Iglesias and the lawyer Marcelo Rodríguez Jordán). I have no more spirit. It’s hard for you to understand. But I have nothing more to give or receive. I am explaining it one by one to my loved ones and I am also doing it with you. We are moments and I was already very happy.”

Pérez Iglesias closed the virtual conversation with a message of encouragement: “And you will be again, Nico (happy). This too shall pass”.