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Judge Orders Two Months’ Preventive Custody for Ex‑Partner Charged in Karla Robles TikTok Case

Prosecutors allege sustained harassment drove the suicide, with investigators mining phones and social‑media data.

Overview

  • A Tucumán judge placed Diego Zerda in preventive custody for two months after he was formally charged with instigation to suicide and simple threats.
  • Prosecutors had requested four months of detention, the defense sought hospital house arrest with monitoring, and a forensic report found him fit for penitentiary custody.
  • Presented evidence includes a 1:13 TikTok live video from the night of Robles’s death by hanging, an audio message sent to her brother minutes later, screenshots, and testimony from three friends.
  • The inquiry continues with extractions from three seized phones, data requests to TikTok and Meta, phone‑line analyses, and interviews with relatives, friends, and witnesses.
  • Relatives and their lawyer cite at least six prior complaints since 2022 that were archived, intensifying scrutiny of earlier prosecutorial actions.