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Argentina and Spain Expand Specialized Statutes to Detain Violence Suspects

Authorities are relying on specialized statutes, pilot oral trials, preventive detention and formal charges to pursue suspects in a recent uptick in violent crimes.

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Ocurrió en la Escuela 710 “María Carabajal” de Puerto Madryn.
Los jueces populares y los miembros de la Cámara Séptima del Crimen que tuvieron a su cargo el juicio del Neonatal. (Pedro Castillo / La Voz)
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Overview

  • Argentine prosecutors have charged a 65-year-old in Jujuy with domestic assault and arrested Joaquín Alfredo Pérez in Corrientes after he confessed to killing his ex-partner.
  • Walter Jesús Amador Molina has been formally indicted in Mendoza for the femicide of his partner and had his prison-leave privileges revoked based on forensic findings and electronic-monitoring data.
  • Spain’s Fiscalía de Menores in Badajoz has accused three adolescents of murdering social educator Belén Cortés and is seeking maximum secure-internment sentences under a pilot oral-trial juvenile system.
  • An 84-year-old man in Navarra was remanded without bail for allegedly killing his 67-year-old roommate in a Cascante nursing home, highlighting concerns over elder-care safety.
  • In Campeche, only one of three suspects in the alleged gang rape of law student Susan Saravia has been apprehended, with her family alleging local officials are shielding the remaining perpetrators.