The name Nahir Galarza will remain in the past.
In other words: Nahir Galarza will no longer be called Nahir Galarza.
It is not a philosophical or existentialist or identity question: The young woman convicted of the crime of Fernando Pastorizzo decided to change her father’s last name, Marcelo Galarza, because she feels betrayed by him. He doesn’t want to see him anymore. If she succeeds, on paper it will be called nahir crohhis mother’s surname Yamina.
It is as if she wanted to get rid of a stain, a weight or something that hurts her and links her to her father, with whom she is at odds.
This news was communicated to his lawyer Raquel Hermida Legend. There is no single reason, but the main one is that, according to her, her father, her police officer, Marcelo Galarza, killed Fernando Pastorizzo and not her. She says that he promised to take care of her and tell the truth about what happened on the morning of December 30, 2017, in Gualeguaychú, when Pastorizzo was killed by two bullets.
For the murder, Nahir was sentenced to life in prison on June 3, 2018.
“Nahir wants to change his last name urgently. She also told the prison psychologist and psychiatrist and they advised her to see the social worker. She insists that her father was the shooter and that she is innocent,” Hermida Leyenda, from the Red de Concepción Foundation, told Infobae.
The lawyer, who with her income managed to turn around Nahir’s defense, only on the 12th will she be able to receive her registration that enables her to work in Entre Ríos. She will deal with all the causes of the 23-year-old girl who is imprisoned in the Penal Unit Number 6 for Women of Paraná.
Yesterday he received a visit from his lawyer, whose intervention at the time was decisive for Nahir’s complaint against his father to come to light.
as published Infobae exclusively on Friday, January 7, there was an unexpected fact in the case: Nahir, through his lawyer Raquel Hermida Leyenda, pleaded not guilty and accused his fatherMarcelo Galarza, of having killed Fernando Pastorizzo with two bullets.
It all started a few hours after the four-year anniversary of the crime. On the night of December 29, 2021, Nahir could not sleep. Hours before, he had called Hermida Leyenda several times:
— You are the only person I trust, I need you to come urgently– he asked.
Then he begged:
– Please, I’m desperate.
The criminal lawyer, who entered the case after Nahir was sentenced, traveled to Paraná because she thought that her client was going through a psychiatric outbreak.
But when he saw her, the 23-year-old told him a secret that, according to her, she kept for more than four years.
– I’m going to tell you something I never told. And nobody knows. I didn’t kill Fernando, it was my dad. I want you to charge him because he is the real killer.
The lawyer appeared at the Criminal Prosecutor’s Office in Paraná and denounced Marcelo Mariano Galarza, Nahir’s father, for Pastorizzo’s murder. She also accused the prosecutor of the case, Sergio Rondon Caffaand the lawyer Victor Rebossiothe first to defend Nahir.
She also reported that Nahir’s paternal uncle sexually abused her when she was a minor. And another complaint for gender violence against Galarza. At the same time, she requested security measures for Nahir, for her brother, her mother Yamina and for herself.
These complaints were incorporated into the file of the Supreme Court of Justice, which has yet to review the case.
But his father said nothing on the subject. He separated from his wife and went to live in a field in Gualeguaychú. Her daughter didn’t want me to visit her anymore.
“The reason that leads her to want to change her paternal surname is that he promised to take care of everything and tell the truth. Unfortunately, she is not doing it and on top of that she plans another new life in Paraguay. Before, she seeks to collect what according to him they owe her from the series and the documentary about her daughter. It is said that he is already with another woman. I am going to request that he be prohibited from leaving the country and his detention”said Hermida Leyenda, who from Friday the 12th will begin to be the only lawyer for the young woman.
In addition, he revealed a surprising detail: “The ballistic expertise is poorly done. And one of the criminal experts was recommended by the Entre Ríos Police at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office and was one of Galarza’s collaborators. A group of defense criminalists is going to start analyzing what Nahir says about that night and how the shots were fired. Because the criminal report does not coincide with Nahir’s statement. She, and no one knows this, the only thing she does with her right hand is write. The rest of the things, painting, dressing, eating, she does with the left. If someone throws a ball at him, he catches it with his left. I threw a pen at him and he took it with that hand. She doesn’t write with her left hand because when she was a girl they didn’t let her. Her father told her not to say that she was left-handed. This is essential because whoever shot Pastorizzo is right-handed.”
According to what Nahir told, the facts were as follows:
She says that her father was primed and quickly followed her and Fernando Pastorizzo, who was driving his motorcycle, with his car.
With the braking of Galarza’s car, Fernando got scared, suddenly braked the motorcycle and fell. She stumbled but stayed up. Galarza got out, took the gun, which was hers, the one she used as a police officer in Entre Ríos, spoke something to Pastorizzo, and shot him twice.
Front and back.
Fernando, badly wounded, looked at Nahir and said:
– Please call an ambulance.
But Galarza gave the gun to his daughter and ordered her:
— Go away.
He got in his car and left.
“I didn’t know what to do because everything seemed like a movie to me, besides I had nowhere to take the weapon, I didn’t understand anything of what had happened”Nahir told his lawyer.
Until this new version, Nahir had declared in the oral trial and in the investigation stage that he shot Fernando twice by accident.
All of Nahir’s complaints, the one he made against his father, the alleged sexual abuse of his uncle, were incorporated into the presentation made by Hermida Leyenda to the Court.
Nahir never wanted to see his father again. “I feel betrayed. In addition to not telling the truth, that he killed Fernando, he did not move as he should on the subject with my uncle”, Nahir thinks. At the time, he asked that they protect his mother. “Because in my dad’s family they are all policemen,” she argued.
That he wants to change his surname is something that is not surprising if you remember some of the most resonant police cases in Argentina. The sister of the brothers and parricides Pablo and Sergio Schoklender changed her last name. A cousin of Carlos Eduardo Robledo Puch also changed it and Robledo Puch himself, murderer of eleven people, thought of changing his identity to “be someone else” and that the press and the judges leave him alone and go free. A brother of Archimedes Puccio, the sinister kidnapper and murderer, did not use that last name stained with blood.
Nahir had thought of calling himself something else a few months ago. In his cell he wrote a book of poems. It had been signed by Nahir Kroh.
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