Overview
- Spain: Santiago Laiglesia refused to testify in the 2001 Helena Jubany case after police reported his DNA on the victim’s sweater, and prosecutors plus the family requested his provisional imprisonment.
- Argentina (Lanús): A 16-year-old suspected of fatally stabbing her boyfriend was captured in La Matanza after a 72-hour search guided by data from her incarcerated father’s cellphone, and she remains under juvenile court authority.
- Buenos Aires: The Cámara del Crimen annulled the summons of Cristian Graf and ordered the Diego Fernández disappearance and death inquiry to restart from zero with a focus on investigating a potential homicide.
- Mexico: A Tabasco judge bound four police officers to trial for the killing of student Rodrigo Isidro Ricardez and maintained preventive detention, while Chiapas authorities announced arrests in several recent feminicide cases based on necropsy findings.
- Córdoba, Argentina: Two provincial police officers were detained and charged with preterintentional homicide over the death of Samuel Tobares during a roadside control as internal and judicial investigations proceed.