Overview
- The Control Court ordered his provisional placement at the Emilio Vidal Abal psychiatric hospital in Oliva, a measure made effective on October 27.
- Hospital leadership must file weekly reports to the court on his clinical evolution under ongoing judicial oversight.
- Prosecutor René Bosio sought the measure after court-appointed experts Ana Folledo and María de Los Ángeles Bufados found he could not comprehend or direct his actions at the time.
- He had initially been charged with aggravated homicide by kinship with a gender-based violence qualifier, but the finding of legal unaccountability shifts the case to indefinite medical care rather than a criminal trial.
- The October 9 killing of Mónica Viviana Salguero involved 34 stab wounds, with two bloodstained knives seized at the scene; judicial sources said the accused had been under psychiatric treatment for schizophrenia.