Doubts about the investigation into the death of Naomi Arcentales make the victim’s mother and lawyer ask the Prosecutor’s Office to transfer the case to Quito

That move the investigation into the death of Naomi Arcentales from the Guayas Prosecutor’s Office to the headquarters of the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) in Quito, is the request that Sara Sabando, Naomi’s mother, and Luigi García, lawyer for the victim’s family, are seeking to make directly to the attorney general, Diana Salazar.

This Monday morning, with banners in hand and several companions, Sabando and García arrived at the Attorney General’s Office, located in the north of Quito, to speak with the prosecutor Salazar about circumstances of the fact, such as, for example, that the main suspect is a member of the Public Prosecutor’s Office from the canton of El Carmen, in the province of Manabí.

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According to García, the request to move the investigation to the city of Quito is made on the basis that the defense of the Arcentales Sabando family has many doubts about the transparency and objectivity with which the case is being carried out in the province of Guayas.

“We doubt the objectivity that should prevail in this case, in which the main suspect is a prosecutor from the province of Manabí. We are repeatedly asking the attorney general to shift research. We will be here until you attend us personally and to be able to talk to her about the situation ”, explained García.

The lawyer pointed out that with respect to Juan Carlos Izquierdo, the alleged main suspect in this case, his innocence status is intact, but he clarified that it will be the task of the Prosecutor’s Office and of that defense destroy that state of innocence. What García does criticize is that if Izquierdo considers himself innocent, Why not appear at the Prosecutor’s Office to provide the facilities.

“He refuses to hand over his telephone equipment, he refuses to render physiognomic samples for human identity testing, he refuses to hand over biological samples for DNA tests, he refuses to examine forensic psychiatry, to the examination of the social environment, in such a way that this refusal to collaborate With the investigation it gives a lot to think about the state of innocence that he proclaims, “said Luigi García, while reporting that next Wednesday, January 5, they will have a hearing in Manta to learn the facts related to the crime of a sexual nature that is also being investigated. .

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Regarding the result of the second autopsy carried out on the body of Naomi Arcentales, who was found dead on December 12, the lawyer García pointed out that it had already been sent to the FGE. “What the autopsy reveals is the mechanism or the way in which death occurred, that is, no autopsy in the world can determine whether it was suicide or not, the only thing that shows is the mechanical cause of death. What the first autopsy says coincides with what the second autopsy says about the cause, which is mechanical asphyxia. “

Sara Sabando, mother of the deceased young woman, affirms that she seeks to speak with the prosecutor Diana Salazar because he does not want his daughter’s case to go unpunished. “I am a mother who is dead in lifeThey just want to know the truth, and they will remain in Quito until it is received, ”said Sabando, who recalled that they have already written letters by mail to the attorney general, but have not received a response.

If the request is addressed from the Prosecutor’s Office, this would be the second time that the case of Naomi Arcentales is led to be investigated in another province. The case occurred in Manta and it went from the Manabí Prosecutor’s Office to the Guayas Prosecutor’s Office. (I)