Overview

• Closing arguments concluded on August 8 with the Ministerio Público Fiscal seeking a 20-year sentence and Prandi’s legal team demanding 50 years.
• The tribunal rejected a preventive detention request and upheld a 300-metre restraining order, leaving Contardi at liberty until judgment.
• Contardi’s defense renewed calls for nullity and acquittal while he maintained that all relations were consensual.
• Julieta Prandi’s partner, Emanuel Ortega, urged the court to impose stricter security measures to protect Prandi and her children.
• The Tribunal Oral en lo Criminal N°2 of Zárate-Campana will announce its verdict on August 13 at 11 a.m.