Héctor Romero, el camionero que vio por última vez a María Cash antes de su desaparición en 2011, ha sido detenido. Romero, quien cambió su declaración tres veces, se presentó ante el Juzgado Federal de Salta. La justicia federal está convencida de su implicación en el caso, marcando un avance significativo en una investigación que ha durado una década.
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00:00The story of Maria Cajabi, who after so long, a girl who disappears in 2011,
00:05now there is a detainee, it is the truck driver who saw her for the last time, right?
00:10Exactly, that's what the justice considers, and we are seeing Hector Romero, this 71-year-old man,
00:16who changed his statement at least three times.
00:21The justice put its eye on him, began to look for more details to take him to what was
00:27the detention of this man the day before yesterday.
00:31Finally, yesterday he presented himself before the judge, the federal judge of Salta,
00:37Dr. Mariela Jiménez. First he said that he would not testify,
00:42then he spoke with his lawyer in an intermediate room and returned about his steps,
00:47and said, well, yes, I'm going to testify. He reassured, he had told her that in three different places
00:54he had left her, but in three different hearings, as a witness, always, right?
00:59That's what obviously got him to put his eye on him, as we said, regarding this.
01:04Let's listen to the prosecutor, Dr. Eduardo Villalba, who is the prosecutor who accuses him
01:09directly of qualified homicide and caused the body to disappear, that's what he said.
01:15Well, he has been charged with qualified homicide, against, under the influence of Maria Caj,
01:21that was the accusation that the judge gave him, Dr. Mariela Jiménez.
01:25Well, the theory of the case of the Public Prosecutor's Office
01:30is not only that it is the last person who sees Maria alive, but that it is the person
01:35who raises her, and in our way of seeing it, from the path, from the path S
01:41to Joaquín Díaz González, due to circumstances that will have to be clarified,
01:49he took Maria's life and caused the body to disappear.
01:52That is the accusation that was made to him.
01:54And how did he defend himself about that?
01:56They are deductive evidence, of analysis.
01:59Contundent evidence will be the product of the investigation.
02:03What we have today is the possibility that this happened.
02:07Possibility is required to investigate.
02:09Anyway, he is arrested, and that conclusion is reached
02:14through the impact of antennas, at that moment,
02:21which show that the truck did not make the trip on the usual route,
02:28it took that day much longer than other times, back and forth,
02:33and also of inconsistency and different statements.
02:37In turn, throughout all these years, what was being worked on is that
02:42the rest of Maria Cash's sightings were not real.
02:47Well, there is the prosecutor, right?
02:50I mean, recovering a little the evidence, Javi, that there is,
02:53regarding the truck driver, right?
02:54The prosecutor is convinced.
02:56For the first time, someone is convinced of this.
02:58Because until now, it was not known exactly.
03:01Today, on the network, with Paulo Vilauto, we talk about other issues,
03:04but also about the issue linked to Maria Cash, with Juan Manuel Urtubey,
03:08who at that time was the governor.
03:11He said, well, no, I don't know what happened, I don't want to venture,
03:14because this is federal justice.
03:16But he was the governor of a province in which a woman,
03:19from here, from the city of Buenos Aires,
03:21on a journey that went to Jujuy, disappeared.
03:24The police investigated, the police is high at the moment,
03:27investigated, the justice, the investigation was great for them.
03:31The federal justice had to intervene.
03:33But the federal justice, let's say, apparently,
03:37according to what the prosecutor says,
03:39gave a crime in the place.
03:42Look, let me...
03:43Not for the purposes, for example, of human trafficking.
03:45No, no, no, no, no.
03:46The issue is where the body is.
03:47Exactly.
03:48Well, Maria José Tonini is a colleague,
03:50is a colleague there from Salta, from Voces Críticas.
03:53Maria José, how are you?
03:55Thank you for waiting for us.
03:57Well, I imagine the great commotion that is being experienced there in the province,
04:00well, that we are all experiencing,
04:02for a case that we have followed very closely,
04:06that we have understood a lot over time.
04:09A lot of time has passed since the disappearance of Maria Cash.
04:12How are you, Maria José?
04:14Hello, guys, good morning. How are you?
04:16Well, first of all, thank you for the space.
04:18Also, well, to introduce myself again.
04:20I am Maria José, journalist from the newspaper Voces Críticas,
04:23from here, from the province of Salta.
04:25Well, in the newspaper we carry an exhaustive investigation
04:29and we gave it a huge importance,
04:31which is actually worth it,
04:33the disappearance of the young Maria Cash.
04:36Well, here in Salta, logically, it is the subject of the moment,
04:39because after 13 years, the investigation is back
04:42in the eye of the storm, we could say.
04:45Well, nothing, the truth is that everything is very strange.
04:48People wonder what is going on,
04:50why after 13 years,
04:52that this young 29-year-old designer disappeared,
04:55disappeared, sorry,
04:57why is it being investigated again in this way
05:01and she didn't do it, actually,
05:0313 years ago,
05:05according to the Saltonian justice,
05:07logically, the case never stopped being activated,
05:10but logically in the previous years
05:12it was not given the same importance.
05:14Well, to talk a little bit and contextualize
05:17about this topic,
05:19you have to take into account that Maria Cash was,
05:22well, is, because we don't know what she was yet.
05:25A woman, at that time, 29 years old,
05:29heading to the province of San Salvador de Jujuy,
05:32here in the Argentine north.
05:34She left on July 4, 2011,
05:38to San Salvador de Jujuy,
05:40from the Retiro bus terminal,
05:43there in the province of Buenos Aires.
05:45Maria Jose?
05:46Logically, yes, yes.
05:48How are you, Javier Díaz?
05:50Let's see, you live there
05:52and you already know this case, among others, right?
05:55Salta has had the subject of, well,
05:58murder cases, also at the time.
06:00An emblematic case, too, and regrettable.
06:03Can we believe the justice now?
06:05Do you think that, let's say,
06:07you who follow the cases there,
06:09who know them, are now on the firm track,
06:12or are they very weak?
06:14Let's see.
06:16Do you want my personal opinion
06:18or do you want the opinion that is being made,
06:20well, within the journalistic sphere here in Salta?
06:22Both, yours as a journalist
06:24and what people think there.
06:27Let's see, particularly,
06:29I personally think
06:31that it took a long time
06:33to carry out an investigation
06:35because at 13 years old it is very difficult
06:37to have traces again
06:39that are really coherent
06:41and precise
06:43to know what really happened
06:45with Maria Cash.
06:47This woman disappeared
06:49and was seen for the last time
06:51on July 8, 2011.
06:53It is almost impossible
06:55that 13 years later
06:57something can be confirmed.
06:59My particular question
07:01is the one I have been asking
07:03as the days go by
07:05and as justice advances
07:07and gives more information
07:09about this investigation
07:11is why at this moment
07:13out of nowhere, we can say,
07:15the truck driver
07:17is accused of 20 causes
07:19that involve him
07:21within the disappearance of Maria Cash.
07:23From here in the province of Salta
07:25it is said that it is very productive
07:27and that this cause
07:29logically has to have a closure.
07:31Maria Jose, thank you very much
07:33for these minutes.
07:35It is an open case
07:37despite the imputation to the truck driver
07:39because there are still many more questions
07:41to try to answer.
07:43Thank you very much for these minutes.
07:45Well, thank you very much
07:47to all of you and well,
07:49greetings from the floor.
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