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A Criminal Lawyer Explained in Detail the Legal Situation of the Argentine Woman Accused of Racism: “She Is Not Acquitted”

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The progress of the trial against Agostina Páez, the Argentine woman accused of racism in Brazil, generated cross interpretations of her legal situation.In this context, the criminal lawyer Gastón Francone clarified that the change in the qualification of the crime does not imply an acquittal, but a reconfiguration of the case.As explained in LN+, the modification responds to a strategy agreed between the defense and the prosecution, with the va…

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Agostina Páez, a 29-year-old Santiagueña lawyer accused of racism, faced on Tuesday the formal start of the trial against her in the courts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Originally, the trial included a potential penalty of up to 15 years in prison.The young woman has been in the neighboring country for two months with a ban on going out and under electronic anklet monitoring.The case originated on January 14, when she was filmed making racist gest…

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The judicial situation of Agostina Páez added a new obstacle in Brazil: the leaking of a possible compensation of $150,000 resulted in a request from the prosecution to maintain the restrictions that prevent her from returning to Argentina. Following the hearing in which the young woman recognized the crime of racism and apologized, her return seemed to be on the way. However, the public dissemination of that figure, which would correspond to a …

Agostina Páez was very distressed this Thursday after the judicial setback that condemned her to stay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, about 10 to 15 days, accused of racial insult after having made racist gestures to the employees of a bar in Ipanema. Until Tuesday, it was believed that she could return to Argentina. “I am desperate, overwhelmed, suffering a lot, I don’t know how much more I’m going to suffer here,” she told LN+, adding: “I’m less an…

Argentine lawyer Agostina Páez will have to wait to return to Argentina until the Brazilian Justice issues a final decision after sentencing her to two years of suspended imprisonment for the crime of racial insult. The complaint and the Public Prosecutor’s Office had accepted that the lawyer would return to the province of Santiago del Estero, where she would await the final judgement of Judge Guilherme Schilling Pollo Duarte, in charge of the …

Despite the principle of agreement, new discrepancies between the prosecution and the court keep the departure of the 29-year-old girl from Brazilian territory blocked.

The Santiagueña lawyer was again in the courts of Rio de Janeiro with her father and her lawyer Carla Junqueira.

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Diario Registrado broke the news in on Wednesday, March 25, 2026.
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