Overview
- Argentina’s Córdoba Jurado de Enjuiciamiento voted unanimously to try prosecutors Javier Di Santo, Daniel Miralles and Luis Pizarro for alleged mal desempeño in the Dalmasso investigation.
- The move stems from an April filing by the lawyers for widower Marcelo Macarrón and his children, who accuse the officials of omissions, refusing genetic analyses and institutional violence.
- The 2006 femicide remains officially unsolved and time-barred, and a popular jury acquitted Macarrón in 2022 after the case against him reached trial.
- Later work by prosecutor Pablo Jávega found full DNA matches to worker Roberto Marcos Bárzola, but a criminal chamber dismissed him due to prescription.
- An appeal of Bárzola’s dismissal by the family is before Córdoba’s Superior Court, while the disciplinary proceedings against the three prosecutors are expected to begin next year.