Every time he tried to write about the best memories he has of his mother Nora Dalmasso, Facundo Macarrón had to erase them. As if a kind of curse fell on those words.

The trauma left by the prominent 32-year-old diplomat made him fear that those words, if spread, could be used against him or his father in the trial that begins tomorrow, Monday, at 10 a.m. in the Río Cuarto Courts.

Facundo and his sister Valentina will accompany their father Marcelo Macarrón, who will begin to be tried this Monday, March 14 for being the alleged intellectual author of the murder of his wife Nora, which occurred in the country Villa Golf de Río Cuarto.

On November 25, 2006, the victim was strangled with the lace of a robe and with her hands in her daughter’s room, where she was resting after returning from going out with her friends. Her room was in repair and therefore she could not use it. Her husband was with her friends in Punta del Este, where he won a golf tournament.

For the prosecutor Luis Pizarro, who was in charge of bringing the case to trial, Macarrón had his wife killed. The motive is not clear, but he suspects that it could be for economic reasons. The strange thing is that the previous prosecutor, Daniel Miralles, came to suggest thatMacarrón took a “ghost” plane from Punta del Este, hanged his wife and returned on that plane to finish the tournament.

If found guilty, Macarrón could receive a life sentence, but according to his lawyer, Marcelo Brito, “There is no proof, no indication, it is all a delusion”.

“All this is nonsense,” the defendant came to say, who before the trial received a wink in favour: his former mother-in-law, Delia “Nené” Grassi, Nora’s mother, withdrew from the lawsuit. In addition, Macarrón will not be alone: during the trial, he will be accompanied by his children Facundo and Valentina.

Facundo came to the country from abroad, where he holds an important position in an embassy.

“The wound does not go away,” Facundo told Infobae a year ago.

For him, returning to Río Cuarto is like remembering the tragedy he experienced just over 15 years ago. He feels like one more defendant as if he and his sister were also in the dock. He considers that the prosecutors who went through the case, from Javier Di Santo to Pizzarro, targeted the family without following other leads.

300 witnesses are summoned to the trial and it could take three months. Eight popular juries must determine if the widower hired a hit man to kill his wife.

Facundo is confident that everything will turn out well. He tells those around him that the truth is obvious but it is not convenient or they do not want to see it.

To his relatives, he said: “I am a little anxious and anguished to have to face, as a family, the pain of the bench since the real murderer is on the loose and I am even satisfied that he will not be able to stand trial. But we will do everything possible to cope with it and hope that at least this instance sheds some light and with the release of my old man we can find, as far as possible, some peace.

Facundo and his sister will testify as witnesses. One of the greatest injustices in the case has been committed against him. Facundo, then 19 years old, was charged in the case on June 6, 2007. The prosecutor’s only argument against him was that the Macarrón lineage appeared in the DNA from the crime scene. As Marcelo’s father was playing a golf tournament in Uruguay at the time of the femicide, the suspicion (“slight”, as Di Santo pointed out, of scandalous work), fell on his son.

They did not arrest him, the prosecutor himself considered that there was not enough evidence. However, his theory was that Facundo killed her mother and abused her. Not only that: he came to look for the cell phone in an alleged fight between mother and son over the sexual condition of the young man. Some skills revolved around his private life, despite the fact that they had nothing to do with what was being investigated. They even subjected him to a humiliating psychological test.

In 2012 he was dismissed by the Rio Cuarto Control judge, Daniel Muñoz.

Facundo had two big wounds. One for the crime of his mother. The other, the unjust accusation.“They destroyed my youth”, he told Infobae on June 20, 2020, in his first demonstration to a media outlet since his mother was killed.

“When I spoke openly about my mother, at the age of 18, months after the crime and alone in my apartment before a team of self-proclaimed forensic psychologists from the Córdoba judicial police, the result was a psychological autopsy that ended up being evidence for my accusation, talking about a supposed perversion in the mother-son bond” Facundo recalled in a letter he sent to Infobae two years ago.

And everything, according to him, for commenting that he liked his mother to accompany him or buy clothes because he always had a good taste for that: “Not to mention when I remembered that on weekends he loved being with the plants in the garden in the morning, drinking mate, with the radio playing some classics from the 80s and 90s, while my old man played golf or went to see patients who were hospitalized: dysfunctional family, they concluded. What did they do apart one weekend in the morning?.

From all that, “and so many barbarities that they committed in the judicial investigation”; Facundo reveals that his basic confidence has been destroyed. Especially when he has to publicly remember his mother.

“This did not happen only to me, but to many other members of my family, friends and friends of mom, who prefer to remember her in silence because every time they naively talked about her, what they said was interpreted for the less thoughtful side or the more thought (read, premeditated) for the investigators: blaming someone from the intimate family circle. This is how most of these crimes are closed. Easy. Justice, it doesn’t matter, the important thing is to have a convicted man or woman, today the target is my old man, “he continued.

Facundo is convinced that they covered the gaps with news and statements published by the media: “It doesn’t have to take time for me to talk about my mother without fear of harming my dad or trauma, there simply has to be justice, and this implies investigating who actually committed the horrible crime, and convict that person. Not to mention ending the persecution against my family, today against my old man. It is so simple but so difficult to understand for those who owe us that service of justice, that I do not know if one day we will be able to have the peace of mind of being able to remember her, in public, having done justice. I do not lose hope”.