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La Rosada assured that former police officer Luis Chocobar “suffered harassment from a Government addicted to defending criminals” - Infobae​


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May 07, 2024

The presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, highlighted the Cassation ruling that revoked the conviction of the former La Bonaerense officer and said that he was “a victim of the Zaffaronista doctrine.”



The Government once again highlighted the ruling that revoked the conviction of former police officer Chocobar
The national government once again highlighted today the ruling of the Court of Cassation that revoked the conviction against former police officer Luis Chocobar , who in 2021 had been sentenced to 2 years in prison and 5 years of disqualification after shooting down a minor who had participated in a robbery in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Boca.


In his usual press conference, the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, stated that Javier Milei's administration celebrated the Chamber's decision: “We must never forget that Chocobar, like so many other victims of the Zaffaronist doctrine, suffered along with his family. the harassment of a Government addicted to defending criminals ,” he highlighted.


The spokesperson also assured that "in any country in the world Chocobar's mettle would have been recognized, probably even decorated," but that, however , in Argentina "he has been persecuted and harassed."


“We returned to Argentina to live with common sense where criminals are criminals, where victims are victims and where police officers who honor their profession are recognized and congratulated ,” Adorni concluded.


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Paticia Bullrich with Luis Chocobar after the trial in 2021. Photo: Nicolás Stulberg

Chamber II of the National Court of Cassation in Criminal and Correctional Matters of the Federal Capital, made up of judges Horacio Días and Eugenio Sarrabayrouse , yesterday revoked the sentence that former police officer Luis Chocobar had received in 2021 for his intervention in an event that occurred in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Boca , where he killed a minor criminal. The magistrates ordered a new court to be held to hold another oral trial .

It was a Juvenile Court that convicted Chocobar as the perpetrator of the crime of aggravated homicide in excess of the performance of duty . The penalty was two years in prison and five years of disqualification from holding public office. That was the sentence that was annulled this Monday.

Cassation annulled Chocobar's sentence because the arguments of the judges of the Oral Juvenile Court No. 2, Jorge Ariel Apolo, Fernando Pisano and Adolfo Calvete , were self-contradictory regarding Chocobar's conduct. “Obvious and serious inconsistencies and internal contradictions emerge in each of the votes; and also external, since as the defense states in its appeal, the three votes affirm different circumstances regarding core aspects of the fact attributed to Chocobar," the judges of room II stated in the resolution to which Infobae agreed .

The event occurred on the morning of December 8, 2017, when Juan Pablo Kukoc and another minor -JMPR- tried to steal the camera from American tourist Frank Joseph Wolek in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Boca while he was photographing the murals on Garibaldi Street. , between Suárez and Olavarría streets.

Wolek resisted the robbery and was stabbed: he was badly injured . Then, the Chocobar police officer went out to chase the criminal and, in that context, shot and killed him.

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After hearing the ruling, President Javier Milei celebrated the Justice's decision with a post accompanied by a photo of Chocobar.

A shot on the side of justice .” The uniformed men are the good guys and the criminals are the bad guys. Here we end with the Zaffaroni doctrine . Long live Freedom, damn it,” wrote the Head of State.

Also the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, highlighted the judicial decision that favored the former police officer by stating on her social networks that "the Chocobar doctrine always was, is and will be the fulfillment of the duty of a good police officer: to take good care of Argentinians." .

“The Court of Criminal Cassation assessed that it was a poorly done trial and an arbitrary sentence. Justice has arrived for Chocobar. A big hug, Luis,” added the national official.
 
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