Security chief at Buenos Aires Federal Criminal Court, site of numerous headline trials, found dead. [View all]
Police Commissioner Mariano Coustau, head of the Federal Police Security Division at the Federal Criminal Court for Buenos Aires, was found dead in his office yesterday afternoon. Coustau, 46, died of a gunshot wound to the head in an apparent suicide, leaving behind a wife and three children.
According to witnesses, the commissioner had appeared to have gone about his daily routine coordinating security operations at the courthouse normally. He committed suicide at 4:45 p.m. after receiving in-house correspondence; the courthouse courier, who heard the gunshot and discovered the body moments later, suffered a nervous breakdown and has made no public comments thus far.
Coustau, who was found sitting at his desk with his standard issue gun by his side, left no suicide note; but he was reportedly under investigation for sexual harassment in the workplace. The case is currently being investigated by the 46th municipal police precinct and Prosecutor César Troncoso of the 5th District of Buenos Aires.
The Federal Criminal Court for Buenos Aires, located in the city's port district and colloquially known as the Comodoro Py Tribunals, has been the site of many highly-publicized federal government corruption or malfeasance trials since the large Rationalist building, inaugurated in 1952 for the National Highway Directorate, was converted into a courthouse in 1992.
In recent months former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and numerous officials in her 2007-15 administration have been repeatedly summoned over a number of different allegations, which the former president describes as "a concerted effort to discredit, and if possible, ban, Kirchnerism and anyone associated with it."
The only one of the twelve federal judges headquartered at Comodoro Py to routinely approve trials against Fernández de Kirchner, Judge Claudio Bonadío, is a close ally of her right-wing successor, President Mauricio Macri.
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