“He did not come to murder, he came to be with someone he loved”: the incredible phrases pointed out at the hearing of John Poulos, accused of murdering Valentina Trespalacios

In Colombia, on the morning of this Friday, February 3, 2023, the Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec) announced that John Poulos, designated as the alleged femicide of Valentina Trespalacios, was sent to La Picota prison in Bogotá.

There he will remain while the trial against him for the death of the DJ, found inside a suitcase, in the middle of a garbage dump, on the afternoon of January 22, is carried out.

John Poulos’s lawyer, as reported by Noticias Caracol, requested, on Thursday, that if his client was ordered to be held in a prison for his safety, he should not be sent to an ordinary detention center.

“The probative materials that have been presented have been seen by the whole country, for which the life and integrity of the accused is at risk,” he had said.

In that penitentiary center on the 20th of last month, when the defendant reportedly arrived in Colombia, a group of inmates demonstrated for the quality of the food and demanded better medical attention. Some inmates, according to the neighboring country’s press, joined in a hunger strike. The situation warranted the presence of the Ombudsman, published El Tiempo.

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What the judge said at the femicide hearing

Noticias Caracol recalls that on the night of Thursday, February 2, Judge 59 of Control of Guarantees determined, after listening to the Prosecutor’s Office and the representative of the victims – the mother and brother of the young DJ -, that John Poulos should face the trial against him while in a prison facility.

It is, the outlet explains, a preventive measure because it is considered a danger to society and because it is a risk of flight.

At the hearing, where videos and stills of the American’s tours were shown, the judge pointed out before making his decision that everything seems to indicate that Poulos was the one who committed these unfortunate events.

The young woman presented blows and strangled to death. Her body was abandoned in a dump in Fontibón, an area of ​​Bogotá.

“Although the images are not very clear as to who was the person who threw the suitcase with Valentina’s body into the container, John Nelson Poulos’s control of that vehicle allows us to point out that he and not another person He is the one who carried out this activity.

When John Nelson arrives at the company to return the car, his clothes were still found in the co-pilot position.

That is to say, in the same conditions in which he left the Capadoccia building, with the difference that the blue suitcase was no longer in the trunk (trunk, trunk).

These elements allow us to infer the authorship of John Nelson in this femicide.

He and not another person was the one who committed these unfortunate acts, the judge analyzed.

Phrases expressed in the audience

On the nights of February 1 and 2, before the judge, the defense of the Dj’s family, the Prosecutor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office and the representative of Poulos presented their points of view.

Here are some phrases:

Paul’s Defense:

The lawyer for the femicide suspect stated: “Among the material elements seized, although it was not exposed, there was a chest, a chest that kept a ring.

Since interpretations have been made about everything seen, an interpretation must also be made about this: my agent had a great life in the United States, why give up everything?

My client had a special relationship with the victim, he loved her and wanted to organize with her, if he brought all his valuables with him, my client He did not come to Bogotá to assassinate someonehe came to be with someone he loved, ”said the lawyer quoted on Blu Radio.

John Poulos is a “model father”.

“He has no criminal record of any kind.”

He stated that his client had the “intention to settle in Colombia, apparently, with Miss Trespalacios.”

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“The security measure is necessary to prevent the accused from obstructing the due exercise of justice; likewise, that Mr. Poulos constitutes a danger to the security of society”.

“From what was reviewed by the Prosecutor’s Office and by the victim’s attorney, a cycle of psychological and physical violence is evident (…) John Poulos considered Valentina Trespalacios as his property.”

Prosecutor’s Office:

“He treated his body as if it were a thing, a useless object. He ignored all conditions of human dignity ”.

Miguel Ángel Del Río, lawyer for the mother of the DJ:

“John Poulos leaves Bogotá for Panama to escape,” Del Río said, but what most strikes him is “the premeditated exercise that Poulos had” in having Montenegro, in southeastern Europe, as his final destination.

“Valentina Trespalacios has been assassinated for the sole fact of being a woman as the final part of an exercise in brutal violence and a manifestation of a patriarchal society.” (YO)

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