🚨 CASO MARÍA CASH: HÉCTOR ROMERO FUE EL ÚLTIMO EN VER A MARÍA CASH
👉 El camionero de 71 año, que está imputado de homicidio calificado por alevosía en el caso de María Cash, reiteró ayer su inocencia durante una audiencia en el Juzgado Federal de Garantías N°2 de Salta.
A pesar de su declaración, la jueza Mariela Giménez consideró que las contradicciones en sus versiones y la falta de explicaciones sólidas justifican su prisión preventiva mientras avanza la investigación por la desaparición y muerte de María Cash, ocurrida el 8 de julio de 2011.
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👉 El camionero de 71 año, que está imputado de homicidio calificado por alevosía en el caso de María Cash, reiteró ayer su inocencia durante una audiencia en el Juzgado Federal de Garantías N°2 de Salta.
A pesar de su declaración, la jueza Mariela Giménez consideró que las contradicciones en sus versiones y la falta de explicaciones sólidas justifican su prisión preventiva mientras avanza la investigación por la desaparición y muerte de María Cash, ocurrida el 8 de julio de 2011.
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00:0013 years after the disappearance of Maria Cash, it is impressive how long news can last in Argentina.
00:07Fundamentally, when the same have to do with a disappearance and end up not knowing his whereabouts for years.
00:15Speculations begin that he may have passed, that he had a mental problem.
00:19Well, finally, the truck driver who was arrested was accused of having murdered Maria Cash and has already been sentenced to preventive prison.
00:28We are talking about Hector Romero, this 71-year-old man, right?
00:31Yes, a man of advanced age who had, it is understood, a pact of silence with his family.
00:38And he ends up somehow betraying his brother David.
00:42This man is already charged and accused of qualified homicide.
00:48All this will be seen in a next court hearing.
00:51But a reconstruction could be done, due to a work of the investigation body of the public ministry of Salta, which gave light to see what they are going to look for.
01:02And I think the same thing will happen with the Loan case later.
01:06It was always talked about what happened to Maria Cash after this man had apparently left her in the roundabout where the grotto of the deceased Correa is.
01:17There were false witnesses.
01:19Many people, I understand, motivated by the rewards that gave false clues.
01:24Well, Prosecutor Villalba went to the last scene where she was seen alive, which was above the truck, this Mercedes-Benz truck that this man was driving.
01:31Yes.
01:32Because of that, the information that the cell phones had given at the time was sought.
01:37A triangulation was made with the cell phones, this man's cell phone.
01:41This man, obviously, investigated again, looking for ...
01:44Now.
01:45Yes, in some way, what he had said at the time was contradicted.
01:48And yes, there were constant contradictions.
01:50What everything indicates is that Romero would have taken Maria Cash's life.
01:55First, well, he reduced her, took her life and made the body disappear.
01:59Of course.
02:00For now, that.
02:01Let's see.
02:02What happened before?
02:03Of course.
02:04What happened during?
02:05What happened on board the truck?
02:06Yes.
02:07This man was consulted in previous inquiries, that he was very reluctant to speak, that Maria Cash described her.
02:13This man could not describe her from the waist up in terms of clothing.
02:17Yes.
02:18He remembered the shoes and the pants.
02:21And that also gives clues to the investigation that could have happened before, obviously, as he is charged with murder, he ends up killing her.
02:28Of course.
02:29And where does he discard the body?
02:31Thirteen years have passed, but today, for now, what we have is an accused, the strongest clue in thirteen years and the hope of the family.
02:38At least the mother, because Maria Cash's father tragically died looking for his daughter.
02:42Yes.
02:43And in that sense, it will be investigated where the remains of Maria Cash would be.
02:48Well, at first Romero was able to declare himself, but what is said is that he decided to speak, answer the questions of the parties.
02:54Let's ask our colleague David Aguirre, who is working in Salta.
02:57David, how are you?
02:58Good morning.
02:59Good morning.
03:03You're in the air, David, huh?
03:05There's a little bit of delay out there.
03:07Let's see.
03:09There he is, he's waiting, David.
03:11Well, let's see.
03:12He declared himself innocent, denied the indictment against him, this man.
03:16Of course.
03:17Let's remember that at the time of his disappearance, Romero was driving a truck, a Mercedes-Benz with a coupling,
03:23for a businessman who owns a supermarket in the city of General Güemes and another in the town of Joaquín B. González.
03:28This is the southern part of Salta.
03:30Of course.
03:31And Romero's situation was compromised as a result of the fact that during the investigation he gave three different versions of the meeting with Maria Cash.
03:39It was constantly contradicted.
03:42What they also say is that after inquiries, in terms of the port that the truck had, the coupling that said Catita,
03:50the weight it had, they did not give the time for the guidelines of the places where he said he had been to be fulfilled.
03:58He was going to Joaquín B. González, but somehow the man also changes his route,
04:03and in that sense it is believed that he may have discarded Maria Cash's body.
04:08Let's see, now he is accused.
04:11Obviously, there will also be a process in which other witnesses who have participated will be investigated,
04:16especially the people who worked at the General Güemes roundabout service station at that time.
04:21A service station that three years ago was very small, today it has expanded, there are many more people working,
04:26and there are cameras, and that is what is good too, because at that time it was not common.
04:30Exactly, Romero in the statements was changing the place where he had supposedly met Maria Cash,
04:37so that she would get on the truck, which began to be suspicious, as it was here, it was on this side.
04:43First he said General Güemes, then Las Palomitas, and then Difunta Correa,
04:47that is, it was giving 2011, of course, and it was changing until 2019.
04:51Now, 13 years have passed, we have David Aguirre, now, how are you? Good morning from Salta.
04:56Hello, Guille, how are you? Good morning, good morning to the team.
05:00And well, unfortunately, it is as they say, there are not many contradictions,
05:05there are many arguments that have changed in these 13 years since Maria Cash disappeared.
05:12One of them is precisely that, they were not talking about the places that he had traveled with the truck,
05:16they were talking about the spaces that the truck had traveled,
05:22there is talk that he was made to lose, there was talk of many things.
05:26Romero was two hours yesterday, he entered in the morning, before we left with the cell phone yesterday,
05:32he was already inside what was the federal court,
05:35that operation was done precisely to try to dissuade what was the press,
05:39he was giving a statement, he gave a statement for two hours,
05:42and when he left, he was able to speak with the prosecutor,
05:45he was able to speak with people, precisely with his lawyer.
05:48The lawyer maintains that Romero was calm throughout the statement,
05:53he maintains that he did not change the version that he continues to support everything he said,
05:58and that precisely these activities or this sequence of events that happened since Maria Cash disappeared,
06:06they have not changed it, he continues with the same tranquility and he declared himself innocent.
06:11He is already charged with aggravated homicide by allegations,
06:16and well, he is accused of killing and making the body of Maria Cash disappear in these more than 45 kilometers,
06:23from Aonor, from the toll, from the old toll of Aonor,
06:26to what was the journey to the district of La Dijunta Correa on Route 9.
06:34Exactly. Now, did Romero act alone?
06:40What do you know? Would he have had accomplices?
06:43Because these silences can only be maintained from what one can dominate,
06:47the omertad, right?
06:49Just now, Germán Marcucci said, making a parallel with the case of Loan,
06:55who else could be involved? What do you know, David?
07:01And here they talk a lot about the family circle,
07:05that there would be someone in the family who knows something,
07:09and that this pact of silence was made.
07:11This pact of silence that was broken a few weeks ago,
07:14with the statement of the brother,
07:16with this he called and awakened again the alerts to continue with the investigations,
07:22and well, to call again this large number of witnesses who have already passed through the federal court,
07:27making a testimonial statement.
07:29Well, until now, only Romero with this inquiry statement,
07:33in the case of detainees, but the truth is that this is sought, right?
07:37Trying to figure out what happened,
07:40and there is a lot of talk about the family circle,
07:42there is a lot of talk about the pact of silence,
07:45without having another person, right?
07:47Yes, there was talk at some point of deputies from the department of General Güemes,
07:52of the bosses of Romero, who were the owners of the trucks, of the companies,
07:57there was talk of many people involved,
08:00that until now everything has been left in that,
08:03they have only said, and the investigations led to the fact that the only person responsible until now
08:08for the disappearance of Maria Cash is the commissioner,
08:11who has already been detained and continues to be detained here in the federal police,
08:17It is an isolated fact, because clearly also in these years it transcended,
08:21the hypothesis of a network of human trafficking was handled,
08:24it is an isolated fact, and why would it be an isolated fact,
08:28there was such a pact of silence,
08:30and so many difficulties at the time of advancing with the investigation?
08:36There is talk of many experiences within the investigation,
08:39there is talk of a bad investigation,
08:43of a mistreatment of what had been collected at that time,
08:4713 years ago we are talking about all the evidence they had,
08:50of the inquiries that were made to the truck,
08:53of the raids that were made in the houses of all the people who were involved,
08:57he even went to the Gomería to see if he had the indication of something,
09:01of some belonging to Maria Cash, they entered the house of Romero,
09:05He was not at the Gomería, Maria Cash?
09:08No, at the Gomería there is no certainty that he was,
09:11the Gomero says that he was not, that he did not see her,
09:14there is no security camera in that sector,
09:16if there is a security camera,
09:18if there are security cameras in the parking lot,
09:20but in the toll booth,
09:22it is a toll that the truck driver had to pass,
09:24to get precisely to this Predio de la Dijunta Correa,
09:26where the Gomer is,
09:28he has to go through the toll,
09:30and well, there are cameras in that sector,
09:32there is talk that he followed the road to Joaquín González,
09:35where we have precisely all this place,
09:38a highway that is being controlled,
09:40and to see if someone has a defect,
09:42they arrive from the toll to that place, right?
09:45There are many hypotheses.
09:47And in the meantime, these 13 years,
09:49this Mr. Romero kept driving the same truck,
09:52for the same routes and roads,
09:54without anything happening?
09:57He had an accident,
09:59he hit a person, he killed a person,
10:01also a traffic accident,
10:03he had many facts,
10:05he is totally, has a cause for guilty homicide,
10:09they crashed into a motorcycle,
10:11and well, this person died,
10:13Romero was driving this truck,
10:15they were all the facts that were happening in these 13 years, right?
10:19The truth is that there were many things,
10:21he stopped driving trucks,
10:23because of the prostate cancer he has,
10:26and well, he started trying to find another way of life,
10:29that's why he came from General Güemes,
10:31which is the capital of the province of Salta,
10:34where he has been living these last years,
10:37in his sister's house,
10:39in the Paraguayan neighborhood of Salta,
10:41where he was arrested yesterday.
10:43David, and do you know what could have happened
10:45with that brother,
10:47because if for so long they had not found
10:49something so forceful,
10:51to blame him,
10:53to call him beyond the doubts
10:55that there were about him,
10:57to do it in a message,
10:59because if he knows that he is the culprit,
11:01it is to express it in a message.
11:03Do you know of any situation that could have happened between them?
11:07It is said that they just had conversations
11:11in the family during these 13 years,
11:13that at some point
11:15the subject of Maria Cashi was discussed,
11:18that, let's see,
11:20as I repeat,
11:22they are all so-called ex-officials,
11:24that it was said that something had happened
11:26inside the truck,
11:28and well, that the family from those moments
11:30also began with an even stronger pact of silence.
11:33That's why we got to 13 years
11:35to be able to clarify
11:37what had happened with Maria Cashi.
11:39The father visited the province of Salta many times,
11:41he came to Romero's house,
11:43he was talking to the family,
11:45he was trying to see what he could achieve,
11:47and he died in the attempt to confront Maria Cashi.
11:51It is regrettable that this happened,
11:53but yes, there is a lot of talk,
11:55there is a lot of talk about the family circle
11:57and the act of silence that they have.
11:59This HDP is still screwing up,
12:01something like that, they had put the brother,
12:03what I ask you is
12:05how forceful were the reports
12:07of the Public Ministry of Salta,
12:09the last ones that were made,
12:11could these reports have been a lock
12:13so that somehow
12:15that pact of silence is broken,
12:17or the intrafamilial reasons?
12:22There is talk of that,
12:24of the intrafamilial reasons,
12:26of just the exhaustion
12:28of many of the families
12:30for trying to keep a person
12:32who has apparently committed this crime,
12:34to keep him there.
12:36There is talk of many fights,
12:38precisely the family,
12:40there are families that are far away,
12:42brothers who do not communicate,
12:44sons and cousins who do not communicate,
12:46that is, they have precisely a problem
12:48that is not known,
12:50if it is precisely because of this pact of silence
12:52or is it some other intrafamilial problem
12:54within what is the nucleus of the Romeros.
12:56David, do you have a wife and children
12:58who live there in the city?
13:00I have no knowledge of that,
13:02if they are living in the city,
13:04we do know that the daughter is in this neighborhood,
13:06it is a new neighborhood,
13:08it is not a neighborhood with many years,
13:10it was delivered by the housing
13:12organizations here in the province of Salta,
13:14and well, precisely the space,
13:16to be able to be with the father,
13:18we could not investigate much,
13:20we could not know if he is living
13:22with someone else, with a couple,
13:24with a woman,
13:26but if it is the home of the daughter.
13:28Do you live in Salta?
13:30I have no knowledge,
13:32nothing has happened yet,
13:34there is nothing that someone has arrived,
13:36a relative of mine who is here in the province,
13:38many media have arrived
13:40from many provinces,
13:42not only from the capital,
13:44but from many provinces that have come
13:46to do this, precisely what was happening
13:48here in the province,
13:50and well, but relatives,
13:52we have no knowledge.
13:54Good for justice,
13:56that never stopped investigating,
13:58what happens is that due to the lack of evidence,
14:00forceful elements, people who approached,
14:02people who broke this circle of
14:04so hermetic silence,
14:06could not go any further?
14:08What the prosecutor did was clean the garbage,
14:10something that we have in the case of Loan,
14:12the appearance of these people who end up
14:14being impeached every day,
14:16and new characters appear
14:18that we do not know where they come from,
14:20the same happened in the case of Maria Cash,
14:22but for 13 years, so imagine
14:24the complicity of characters that appeared,
14:26a lawyer giving
14:28false information,
14:30many people interested
14:32also in the reward,
14:34all that sowed
14:36an eggplant,
14:38and in that sense, the prosecutor Villalba
14:40cleaned the cause of garbage,
14:42and focused on the last hours,
14:44and it comes to this,
14:46which for the time being is forceful
14:48in terms of the testimonies,
14:50or the incrimination of the brother,
14:52or the experiences,
14:54where the body of Maria Cash ended,
14:56and it is confirmed that it was a homicide.
14:58Exactly, well, we'll see what happens in the next few days.
15:00David, thank you very much for this contact.
15:02They are 33 kilometers,
15:04what they are going to start doing,
15:06precisely a tracking,
15:08to try to find the body of Maria Cash,
15:10in this sector,
15:12from what is the roundabout
15:14of the entrance to General Güemes,
15:16to what is the building of the Correia district,
15:18even going through everything that is this place,
15:20to make a tracking again,
15:22which is an order that came out
15:24from the judge.
15:26Very well, a hug, David.
15:28See you later.