Friday, November 29, if no decision is taken in his favor, the father of Laura de Pradena Caceres’ three children, Mauricio Ramirez, will be deported to Chile, his country of birth. However, his presence is required for the trial of Laura’s alleged murderer. Younès Moudi, arrested the day after the discovery of the latter’s lifeless body a few meters from her home, in Marmande, will appear before the Lot-et-Garonne criminal court from January 27 to 30, 2025.
Identity check
“It’s a humanly dramatic situation,” despair lawyers Franck Dupouy and Eléa Cerdan. If he is not there in court, no one will be able to represent his children’s voice in this matter. The goal is that they are not completely orphaned and supported through this ordeal. » For the advice of Mauricio Ramirez and his 16-year-old son, Marcos, “no legal emergency justifies this expulsion to the extent that the man does not persistently disturb public order. »
Mauricio Ramirez surrounded by his two children.
Ramirez family
Since the separation of the couple and the death of Laura de Pradena Caceres in February 2022, Mauricio, 36, who claims to have been living with a friend in Agen for a year, and his three children have experienced different trajectories. Marcos was placed in a closed educational center in Bergerac; Alexis, 10 years old, is housed in a home specializing in welcoming minors in difficulty. As for Maria, 17 years old, the eldest, she returned to her paternal grandmother’s home in Spain.
If he is not there in court, no one will be able to speak for his children in this matter.
The thirty-year-old sees his boys as part of family mediation, “once a week”. On October 28, Mauricio Ramirez was subject to an identity check near Toulouse station. The police found after research that an Obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) had been taken against the person concerned, his residence permit having expired. He was subsequently placed in an administrative detention center in Haute-Garonne. “I’ve been waiting for help for a month, all alone here. I have two children in France, already deprived of their mother: I cannot be forbidden from seeing them,” sighs the thirty-year-old, who has an appointment this Wednesday, November 27 with the judge of freedoms and detention.
In view of these decisions, the Lot-et-Garonnais and Toulouse lawyers requested the suspension of the effects of the OQTF, at least until the trial is held at the end of January, and contacted the rights defender, who will intervene in the procedure to support the rights of children, “distraught” by this “complex situation”. They also tried to raise awareness among the magistrates of the Assize Court.
“Today, we would like the prefect to reverse his decision,” says Eléa Cerdan, the lawyer for young Marcos, “terrorized by the trial.” This Tuesday, November 26, the situation of Laura’s ex-spouse has not evolved positively since the interim freedom order aimed at suspending the effects of the OQTF and ordering the prefect to re-examine Mauricio Ramirez’s file was rejected by the administrative court of Toulouse.
