Overview
- The oral trial for Cristian 'Pity' Álvarez began on Monday, Aug. 10, after Tribunal Oral N°29 rejected defense requests to suspend proceedings and accepted the forensic finding that he has sufficient cognitive reserve to be tried.
- Judges pointed to Álvarez’s recent public activity when weighing the Cuerpo Médico Forense report, and the court set 11 hearings of three hours each with about 70 witnesses expected over August and September.
- In Luján, 27‑year‑old Daniela Natalia Armoa was stabbed to death in early August and investigators arrested Emanuel César Quiroz; the three children who witnessed the attack remain under institutional protection and are receiving psychological care.
- Police in the Luján probe seized two cell phones and genetic samples during searches but have not recovered the alleged weapon, leaving key forensic work and evidence analysis ongoing for the femicidio case.
- Separate high‑profile cases are unfolding: Facundo Moyano remains imputado in a gender‑violence inquiry while publicly denying drug use and saying his partner suffered a cardiac arrest, and Madrid’s Grupo VI homicide unit has detained four people after a fatal Vallecas stabbing.