Canserbero crime: the brothers who confessed to killing the Venezuelan rapper sentenced to 25 years in prison

The Venezuelan justice system sentenced this Friday 25 years in prison TO Natalia and Guillermo Amesticathe two brothers who confessed to killing the rapper Canserbero and his producer Carlos Molnar, according to Attorney General Tarek William Saab.

“After the admission, due to the crimes accused by the Prosecutor and the body of evidence collected, the court proceeded to impose a 25-year prison sentence on both of them,” Saab said in a press conference from headquarters. of the Public Ministry in Caracas.

The Améstica brothers were accused of the crimes of “murder qualified as treason as well as for trivial reasons in the degree of co-authorship, obstruction of the administration of justice, simulation of a punishable act, false attestation before a public official and criminal association”.

Although the Prosecutor’s Office had initially asked for a 30-year sentence, the maximum possible in Venezuela, They were given a five-year reduction as a benefit for confessing to the murders..

“His accomplices will also be accused in the next few hours of this abominable event. To add up the total seven deprived of liberty and five fugitives from justice“, complete.

On the other hand, he highlighted that “a historic result in criminal investigations” and regretted that “at first the crime was covered up” and “a false conclusion was reached”, which “damaged, offended and outraged the memory and image” of the rapper. The fact is that Initially, justice established that the singer had killed his producer and then committed suicide.

In this sense, he underlined it The case was reopened on November 1. “It was not a coincidence, but rather was motivated by the permanent communication we maintained with Canserbero’s relatives and by the requests of his thousands of followers, who They were never satisfied with the results of the first investigation“, he indicated.

And he continued: “The first step we took was to request the file and discover a revealing factwhat it was like to see two stab wounds on the left side which were not taken into consideration for the autopsy. “How does someone with those injuries kill someone and then jump off the building?”

It was then that they launched the first accusation against the Améstica brothers and placed them under house arrest. When “faced with all the evidence collected, they decide, freely and without any coercion, to denounce the execution of both murders, as well as their cover-up”.

The confession of the Améstica brothers

Natalia Améstica, former manager of Canserbero, released a video statement where confesses to having killed the rapper and his friend Carlos Molnar, after drugging them with the help of his brother.

Furthermore, he confirmed that he had been helped to cover up the crime: “He – his brother – arrived at 11pm, accompanied by three Sebin officials, whose names I don’t know. They’ve finished setting up the scene to be a murder or suicide.. That means they’ll stop stabbing Carlos, my brother Guillermo stabs him four timesthe rest is done by Sebin officials”he says in the minutes.

Sebin is the Venezuelan intelligence agency, often used by Chavismo as a secret and ideological police.

And he continued: “They take Canserbero’s body to the kitchen, they take off his flannel, they hit him with a pipe in the face, it’s Guillermo who does it, my brother, and then they explain to us what we have.” do, what it is throw it out the window to finish the murder-suicide scene”.

“My brother leaves the house because he cannot be present at the scene, I change, I make the scene that was at that moment, I ask the neighbors for help, and at the same time the CICPC arrives, standing at attention with my brother and my brother offers them 10 thousand dollars to finish fixing the scene that SEBIN officials had already left lists,” he added.

Finally, he closed: “It meant this They make me step on the blood that was on the floor and leave footprints towards the window. Then I fled to Chile, terrified, thinking that eventually the truth would be known. In March the Ombudsman’s Office reopened the case, they called me, but I went with the certainty that both the Prosecutor’s Office and the CICPC had said that it was a murder-suicide. This is why I return to make the relevant statements for the reopening of the case.”