Overview

• Judge Mariana Gulminelli rejected a five-day privative security measure requested by the prosecutor, ruling that inimputable minors cannot face detention on a homicide charge
• The three adolescents—two aged 13 and one aged 15—have been released to their parents and must attend a scheduled hearing and sessions with technical experts
• Forensic peritajes and an autopsy confirmed that the cable was placed deliberately across a street, inflicting lethal neck trauma on motorcyclist José Emilio Parrada
• Prosecutor Marcelo Yanez Urrutia maintains the act was an aggravated homicide with dolo eventual carried out as a “joke,” while investigators found no evidence of a robbery motive
• The decision highlights the constraints of Argentina’s juvenile justice framework in applying custodial measures to inimputable youths