A police officer from Neuquén went to a friend's workshop last March and, in the middle of a "joke", he pointed his service weapon at him and fired it thinking it was unloaded, but the bullet hit the man's chest and killed him: now A court will announce its verdict on Tuesday and it is debated whether he will be convicted of a homicide with "possible intent" or if it was unintentional. The trial is being conducted by the Neuquén Oral Court and the accused is the police officer Nicolás Leopoldo López (29), who was arrested at the debate accused of "homicide with possible intent, aggravated by the use of a firearm", to the detriment of Diego Escobar. (28). Judicial sources reported that the prosecutor Silvia Moreira and the legal assistant Pablo Jávega required in their argument on Friday that the police officer be declared criminally responsible for this crime - he has a minimum of 10 years and 4 months in prison - for having used his service weapon. with which he fired a shot "at point-blank range" and killed the victim. "On the first day of the trial we said that we were going to be able to prove that the accused killed Diego Escobar. We understand that with the evidence we gave these days it has been proven," he said. He then referred to the fact that the discussion in the trial focused on determining whether the homicide was intentional or negligent. "There is a thin line between both concepts," the prosecutor acknowledged and specified: "In the case of eventual fraud, the subject accepts that the conduct is capable of causing injury to the legal right, and left it to chance that this harmful result would not occur." will happen and he is indifferent.