Two people convicted over the attack on Mónica Ferrero's home

The organized crime judge Diovanet Olivera convicted two people in an abbreviated trial for their involvement in the attack on the prosecutor of the Supreme Court Mónica Ferrero, which took place in the early hours of September 28, when they shot at her home and left a grenade in the yard, according to La Diaria.

According to that outlet, one of those convicted received a sentence of seven years and three months in prison as the intellectual author of criminal association, attack and arson. The other was sentenced to eight years in prison as the author of criminal association and co-author of attack and arson.

Also according to La Diaria, one of those convicted is a young man who had been detained in another case and became the subject of an investigation for his alleged participation in planning the attack. The second was linked to the logistics needed to carry it out.

The Prosecutor’s Office’s main line of inquiry holds that the incident was retaliation for the seizure of drugs on a farm in Punta Espinillo in August 2024. The outlet noted that, although the investigation initially focused on Fernández Albin, it later moved on to people allegedly linked to Marset’s organization, also investigated for the 2020 attack on the Anti-Drug Brigade and for a prior threat against Ferrero.

La Diaria added that there is also a man under investigation since January, after a raid in Las Piedras in which weapons, cartridges, narcotics, vehicles, money in several currencies and allegedly forged documents were seized.

With these sentences, four people have now been convicted in this case, including one of the intellectual authors, who received a sentence of nine years and six months in prison, the outlet reported.

Sources

• La Diaria

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