Overview

• Tribunal Oral en lo Criminal Nº11 found Suárez guilty of homicidio en ocasión de robo and set a 19-year term, short of the life sentence the prosecution sought under homicidio agravado criminis causa.
• The verdict followed a four-month oral trial before judges Julio Pablo Quiñones, Julio López Caserigo and Matías Buenaventura.
• Investigators cited an extensive video analysis of more than 10,000 cameras that yielded 34 matching images and a 15-camera route reconstruction, a knife with the victim’s DNA, an eyewitness identification and an antroposcopic study noting nine coincidences.
• Suárez was arrested on September 4, 2023 after being traced fleeing toward Barrio 31, and in his final words to the court he declared he was innocent.
• Barbieri, 42, was stabbed in Plaza Sicilia during an attempted phone robbery, reached a nearby ice cream shop to seek help and died shortly after at Hospital Fernández.