Bernardo's father goes to a new trial in Três Passos

“I hope to do justice to the boy Bernardo. I really hope that Leandro Boldrini (father) remains imprisoned and condemned. This child is an angel who came into the world to suffer. I am dedicating myself to the fullest to seek Justice for the Bernardo case.” This statement was made this Wednesday (15) by the prosecutor Lúcia Helena de Lima Callegari, at the headquarters of the Public Ministry of RS, in Porto Alegre. She will act at the reopening of Leandro Boldrini’s jury next Monday, the 20th, in the city of Três Passos.

In addition to the prosecutor, the trial will have in plenary the prosecutor Miguel Germano Podanosche. “Everyone is waiting for a final outcome so that this child can rest. In fact, all of Três Passos society needs to rest in relation to this case”, he pointed out. Lúcia Helena informed that she will travel to Três Passos before the trial and will also be in Frederico Westphalen to see the grave where the boy Bernardo was placed and the house where the 11-year-old boy lived.

The trial is expected to last four days. “The Public Prosecutor’s Office expects the maximum possible penalty even more so in a crime with this refinement of cruelty. In the first trial, he was sentenced to 30 years”, he commented. However, the Court of Justice of Rio Grande do Sul (TJ / RS) understood that in the case of Leandro Boldrini there was an irregularity during the trial – during the interrogation, questions were asked by the Public Ministry despite the doctor having invoked the right to silence.

Leandro Boldrini responds for the crime of homicide, concealment of a corpse and ideological falsehood. The situation of the other defendants in Bernardo’s death is as follows: Evandro Wirganovicz is now free (responsible for having made the grave), Edelvânia Wirganovicz is in a semi-open regime and Graciele Ugulini (Bernardo’s stepmother) is serving a sentence in a closed regime with progression to the semi-open regime in 2026. Leandro Boldrini is still imprisoned in the Charqueadas Penitentiary.

Lúcia Helena said she hoped that Três Passos society could do justice. “This case is a paradigm shift and we cannot accept that our children are not cared for or that they are killed like this boy. I hope that Três Passos society recognizes the defendant’s involvement and that he is again convicted,” he added. For the prosecutor, Leandro Boldrini was a negligent father and did not care about his son. “The boy spent days at the neighbors’ house and neither his father nor his stepmother called to find out where he was”, she highlighted.

The new trial of Leandro Boldrini, accused of participating in his son’s death, will take place in the Jury Hall of the District of Três Passos, starting at 9:30 am. The defendant was tried in 2019 and convicted, along with the other three accused, but had the jury annulled on December 10, 2021, by the 1st Criminal Chamber of the Court of Justice of Rio Grnade do Sul (TJ / RS).

Judge Sucilene Engler will preside over the Jury Court. In the first phase, instruction, 15 witnesses will be heard in plenary (five for the prosecution and 11 for the defense, one being common to both parties) and the defendant will be interrogated. Then, in the debate stage, there will be an hour and a half for the Public Ministry to present its accusatory thesis and the same period for Boldrini’s defense. If they decide to go to the reply and the rejoinder, each party will have one hour to reinforce their arguments.

The boy Bernardo Uglione Boldrini, 11 years old, disappeared on April 4, 2014, in Três Passos. His body was found 10 days later, buried in a grave on a property on the banks of the Mico River, in the city of Frederico Westphalen. On the same day, the father, Leandro Boldrini, and the child’s stepmother, Graciele Ugulini, were arrested, suspected of being, respectively, the intellectual mastermind and executor of the crime, with the help of her friend, Edelvania Wirganovicz. Days later, Evandro Wirganovicz was arrested, suspected of being the person who prepared the grave where the boy was buried.

On December 10, 2021, by four votes to three, the judges of the 1st Criminal Group of the TJ/RS accepted the appeal of infringing embargoes by the defendant Leandro Boldrini, father of the boy Bernardo, so that a new trial could be carried out by the Jury Court. Although Leandro Boldrini’s trial was annulled, preventive detention was not revoked.

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