Justice has granted house arrest to Elías Piccirillo, the ex-husband of Jésica Cirio, who is being prosecuted for planting drugs and a weapon on businessman Francisco Hauque, to whom he owed money. This was confirmed to the Argentine News agency by lawyer Gastón Francone.
According to the document that the defense sent to NA, it was requested that the appealed resolution of Judge Sebastián Casanello be revoked, and the II Chamber of the National Appeals Court in Criminal and Correctional Matters granted the accused the benefit of house arrest, who will be monitored with an electronic ankle bracelet.
Piccirillo, who was detained on preventive detention, had suffered "an adjustment disorder with depressive and anxious mood" due to "confinement", which generated "a certain and progressive risk to his psychological integrity", the document states.
Furthermore, the ruling emphasizes that "there is no risk of flight or hindrance of the investigation", which makes it "viable" for the accused to be granted house arrest in the Buenos Aires locality of Banfield.
In turn, it is specified that the analysis of an expert determined "an attitude of submission and defeat" marked by "spontaneous crying" and "a thought monopolized by despair and helplessness".
«The psychological report of the Federal Penitentiary Service registers individual and periodic assistance, incomprehension and despair regarding the future, and symptoms of stress, agony and anguish; and strictly recommends therapeutic follow-up, highlighting that performance will depend on extramural avatars in a context of stress from the experiences of confinement», the document adds, recommending that Piccirillo receive therapeutic accompaniment.
In this sense, it is concluded that house arrest "satisfies the purposes of the process and prevents the aggravation of a mental pathology".
The businessman is accused of the crimes of "coercive kidnapping, aggravated transport of narcotics, aggravated concealment and illegal carrying of a weapon".
The case also involves five other City police officers, some of high rank, including Carlos Helguero -former head of the Robberies and Assaults Division- who led the operation carried out in the Recoleta neighborhood, where the group attempted to incriminate Hauque.
