"Perfect hunting pieces" for the "invisible femicide" of Jorge Ignacio Palma

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Unmoved by the harshness of the story he was hearing,

attended the first session of the trial in which he is accused of the murder of the young Valencian

,

and

, as well as the attempted murder of eight others.

Dressed in a plaid shirt and jeans, perfectly shaven, he appeared before a jury of seven women and two men who will listen to the evidence over the next month and determine whether he is guilty of having ended the lives of these three women by intoxicating them with cocaine. of great purity until death, something that he also tried to do with the survivors under the same pattern.

The Prosecutor's Office, which requests 130 years in prison for 11 crimes of sexual abuse, three of them as a necessary means for a crime of homicide and seven for a crime of injury, and a crime against public health.

public, stressed the "special vulnerability" of the victims of Palma.

He contacted all of them through contact websites, agreed on the price for his services on the condition that they include a 'white party' (drug use) and introduced cocaine stones to all of their genitals against their will.

"Jorge Ignacio Palma found the perfect hunting pieces," said prosecutor Socorro Zaragozá, a specialist in gender violence.

"We all know how prostitutes live and act. There is a belief that anything can be done to them for money and it is very difficult for them to denounce it.

The prosecutor assured that the pattern that the accused followed, how he contacted, how he carried the drug and introduced it through the vagina, the anus or "smearing" them, would be proven.

"He had in his possession cocaine of a purity that is not easy for a consumer to obtain. It is only available to the

. It cannot be bought," she insisted.

And that is a dark point that hangs over the case: Jorge Ignacio's high standard of living and the narcotics that he had at his disposal, hence the accusation of a crime against public health.

For the Public Prosecutor's Office, their activity was stopped by "Marta Calvo's mother courage".

"We are here because thanks to her, who went to his house to look for his daughter, Jorge Ignacio disappeared. His photograph began to appear in the media and the victims emerged, all of them prostitutes used by this man. At the same time, the The Civil Guard realizes that the National Police is investigating two similar deaths."

They are those of Arliene Ramos and Lady Marcela Vargas, which occurred months before.

The Prosecutor described Jorge Ignacio's confession to the murder of Marta Calvo as "tailor-made."

"I have spent a season in the mountains and I arrive with a handwritten letter," Zaragozá said ironically.

"It will be easy to distort the confession," he warned the jury, as well as the mood of the accused.

"One of the expert tests will show you his coldness when talking about the dismemberment. He is not repentant or depressed. The only thing that worries him is that they do nothing to him in prison. He has no remorse of conscience. He is a criminal with a criminal record for resistance and disobedience and drug trafficking. And we would not have caught it if it hadn't been for Marta Calvo's mother. She would have continued to do the same if it hadn't been for Marta's mother's nuisance," he assured.

femicide

The private accusations followed the path opened by the Prosecutor's Office.

The criminal lawyer

represents the families of Arliene and Lady Marcela, for whose murders he requests permanent reviewable imprisonment, in addition to six other victims, and described Jorge Ignacio's conduct as an "invisible femicide."

"It is not just killing, but it is choosing that they be women and in a situation of superiority, of abuse. And it becomes invisible because they are women who practice prostitution," explained the lawyer, surprised by the attitude of the accused.

During his explanation to the jury, Navarro recalled the freedom with which these women acted and that Palma perverted.

"Can I buy prostitutes from women and satisfy my livid mood? This was this man's game. He contacted them on web pages, used a false name, hired them and believed he could do whatever he wanted with them." .

"What he was looking for was not to have sex, that was secondary. What he was looking for was to drug them and see them dying," Navarro's office partner insisted on her turn, representing one of the survivors.

Without Marta's body

Marta Calvo's mother's lawyer, Pilar Jové, showed two photographs of the young woman on her 25th birthday, the last one she celebrated before a "lethal overdose of cocaine" killed her.

"There is no doubt that Marta is dead, but she does not rest in peace. Because she rests somewhere that only this man knows. The worst penalty is losing a child, but the punishment is not being able to bury him. It is grief and punishment that this man has imposed," argued the lawyer, who described the only version that Jorge Ignacio has given about what he did with the body of the young woman, the dismemberment, as "unreal and illogical" because "if someone dies, we will What ordinary mortals do is call the Emergency Room, not dismember it".

Marisol Burón's lawyer recalled how "16,000 cubic meters of garbage" were removed for eight months without finding a trace of Marta's body.

"Marta is victim 0 and as a result of her the others were discovered, and many who have not wanted to denounce. He knows how to discern between good and evil. He may be a psychopath, but he distinguishes," she insisted.

Jorge Ignacio Palma coldly turned, sitting next to his lawyer in front of the jury, to see the faces of the lawyers for the accusations and he only shook his head once, when the lawyer of Marta Calvo's father, Candela Estévez, He reported that he continued with his "lethal sexual practice", confusing his victims with the concept of a "white party" and knowing "the danger and the lethal consequences" that it had had for Arliene and Lady Marcela.

At that time, he asked his lawyer for a piece of paper and wrote something.

For his defense, exercised by the lawyer María Herrera - who already represented him in Navarra in a drug trafficking case in which he accepted a sentence of 3 years and 4 months - his client is innocent and, in addition, he wields his " drug addiction".

"He never killed nor did he intend to kill, he did not abuse or cause injuries nor did he intend to do so," she collects in her defense brief.

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Before the jury, he described his battle as "David against Goliath".

"They may think I'm crazy, but after talking to him I realized that he did not commit any criminal act," she assured in an arrogant tone, recalling that her job is not to prove Jorge Ignacio's innocence, "but we are going to prove it with two tools: the law and the truth".

He insisted, as his client had pointed out, that he learned of the death of Arliene (who spent weeks in a coma and donated her organs) and Lady Marcela when she was in prison and maintained that Jorge Ignacio "never denied" where the body was. by Marta Calvo, "although it is not easy to recognize it in a landfill".

Along the same lines, he highlighted the sexual abuse - "the ladies all voluntarily agreed to the white parties, which is the introduction of coca in the genitals," he said - and that his client had drugs, "not a single gram."

To culminate, he slipped two painful arguments for the accusations.

The first, by putting herself in the shoes of Marisol Burón: "I fully understand her mother, and her thoughts as to why she had not removed my daughter from these stories."

The second, pointing to the nationality of her client.

"He's Colombian, I don't think there's a xenophobe at this point. He committed a petty crime of drug trafficking that he has completed, is that why he is going to dedicate himself to killing ladies? He is not a psychopath, the forensic experts have said so," he concluded.

The trial will resume tomorrow with the first statements of the survivors and is scheduled to last until the second week of July.

Jorge Ignacio will have to testify on July 6.

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