Charged with femicide in Argentina, he asks to be prosecuted as a lady

In Argentina, a Brazilian charged with femicide mentioned he perceived himself a lady and requested to be judged as such. The request was denied.

On February 2022, Fernando Alves Ferreira shot Eduarda Santos de Almeida six occasions as she exited the automobile after arguing with him. 4 bullets hit her within the again. The Brazilian lady died from her wounds quickly after and was discovered on the highway close to Lago Escondido the place they stayed for a visit, a two-hour drive south of San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina‘s Río Negro province.

The accused assassin turned himself in two days after the crime. Fernando Alves Ferreira, additionally a Brazilian nationwide, has been in preventive detention within the Bariloche jail, awaiting trial since then.

He confessed his act in court docket however pleaded it was not premeditated. He argued he did it for his and his youngsters’s security. He additionally talked about she had points involving drug trafficking and mentioned he most well-liked being in jail to returning to Brazil and didn’t need his youngsters to go to Brazil as a result of they’d die there.

The 2 Brazilian nationals met just a few years in the past. Mr. Alves Ferreira and his male companion met Ms. Santos in order that she may turn out to be the surrogate mom of their youngsters. Ms. Santos then left Brazil with the couple’s twin youngsters for Argentina. Mr. Alves Ferreira’s companion died in 2021.

In February final yr, Eduarda Santos lived in Llao Llao close to Bariloche along with her 1-month-old child, the two-year-old twins and their father, Mr. Alves Ferreira, who would turn out to be her assassin.

Mr. Alves Ferreira was charged with femicide, homicide with premeditation, and use of a firearm owned with out authorization.

The prosecutor Martín Lozada requested the court docket to think about prices of femicide as a result of the connection between the 2 was typical of a dominant place of the person over the lady with financial and emotional dependency. She didn’t have associates, household or work, relying on Mr. Alves Ferreira, who would have thought of her an object, referring to the very fact she was a surrogate mom.

He recused the prosecutor’s view final yr and mentioned: “Eduarda was not submissive; fairly the other. I used to be widowed seven months in the past. The violence we suffered at house after Eduarda’s arrival was fixed.”

In Argentina, femicide can result in a jail life sentence since 2012, whereas a homicide with no aggravating issue can result in twenty-five years in jail.

However within the court docket listening to on April 14, Fernando Alves Ferreira mentioned he perceived himself as a lady since his adolescence and ought to be known as Amanda Alves Ferreira to any extent further.

His lawyer argued the accused underwent aesthetic surgical procedure – liposuction, rhinoplasty, she additionally slimed her waist – earlier than the homicide and had began altering her gender id. Consequently, the protection requested to drop the cost of gender violence as a result of solely a person can carry out femicide.

For the prosecutor’s workplace, the accused thought of himself male when he dedicated the homicide, with no proof he thought of himself a lady. Mr. Lozada recalled the defendant recognized himself as Fernando Alves Ferreira on the listening to to impute prices and on the listening to after, in keeping with the Argentine newspaper Diario de Río Negro.

The choose confirmed the cost of femicide.