Maria Paula PizarroThe 29-year-old doctor broke his silence for the first time after the tragic attack he suffered by his ex-romantic lover, which left his body punctured. broken eardrum, multiple bruises all over the face, jaw, eyes, eye sockets and three dental crowns.
(In context: Photos of the couple seeking a surgeon’s conviction for domestic violence)
The events occurred on November 13, 2021, while she was in a relationship with him. Antonio Figueredo, a famous doctor from Santander and was working at HIC International Colombian Hospital at the time.
Their relationship started in March of the same year and everything started with the doctor’s allegations against her. This was done secretly, since the expert was a very close friend of María Paula’s father, was also the victim’s direct boss, held a very important position in the institution, and the two were separated by at least 20 years.
María Paula started working in the HIC intensive care unit and He met Figueredo there, not knowing that everything would turn into a nightmare. Cardiovascular surgeon.
Their first relationship was purely professional, but as time went on, they started inviting people to bike rides and share in non-work environments.
The illness of the victim’s grandfather would have been the perfect excuse to appeal to Pizarro’s family, considering they all worked at the same institution.
“He started to attract my attention in late April 2021, I started a relationship with him. My grandfather’s life depended on heart surgery; this was the gateway to all kinds of physical, verbal and violence. Antonio” He took care of me. , he bought me things, gave me gifts, it was my birthday, he gave me things. I was fragile because my grandfather died in July; He said that my grandfather sent him to me to save me,” said María Paula. TIME.
“He started threatening me not to say anything about his relationship. He said he would throw my father out if I told him,” she said.
The 29-year-old woman reported that she experienced the first physical, verbal and emotional attack on August 29, 2021, after they had been together for 5 months. According to his version, an argument led Figueredo to spit on him and hit him in various parts of his body.
“He said rude words to me, there were very rude words. After the argument, he hit me in the eye, my left arm, my chest and spit in my face. This was the first beating,” he said.
María Paula was in love and gave him a chance because he was constantly after her, even though he was filled with anger.
“I broke up with him, told him I couldn’t continue. I went to Bogota to take the anesthesia exam. Antonio continued to talk to me, I blocked him. He was talking to me on his son’s cell phone, told me to meet. I told him no. I fell in September; I was in love. “He told me it wouldn’t happen again.”
María Paula’s father turned 50 at the end of September, a party to which Antonio Figueredo was invited, where he made many complaints to her for talking with several of his friends.
“I went on a long trip in October, but in September he became obsessed and insisted we have a daughter; he wanted her name to be Macarena. Already in October, during the trip, he desperately called me and asked who he was with.. “There they wrote to me from a fake Instagram profile.”
Pizarro returned from a trip with his family and immediately met the famous doctor, who had his second episode of aggression.
After posting the swimsuit photos, she said: “I got angry. He ripped my shirt, pulled my arm, hit me again. I said, ‘I can’t be with you anymore’.” It is predicted that Figueredo will lose control for the second time.
On November 13, 2021, Antonio Figueredo and María Paula Pizarro agreed to go out to celebrate the promotion in the position of surgeon.
The couple, who argued several times in the middle of the party, eventually went to a motel. While María Paula was sleeping, the alleged attacker relayed all the conversations he had with his co-workers.
He never thought that tragedy would begin when he woke up. Figueredo hit him with his first punch. María Paula assures this medium that this is one of the strongest blows. He immediately grabbed her by her hair and threw her to the ground.
The doctor continued to attack with kicks and punches. He returned and threw her on the bed and continued to beat her wantonly and shamelessly.
“The strongest punch I’ve ever seen; he grabs my hair, throws me off the bed with all his might, and continues hitting me. I fall to the ground, he hits my chin with his fist, I stand up.” , and he kicks me in the head,” part of the lungs. He threw me on the bed. I had no strength left. This man got so excited that he then approached me without my permission. I struggled with him, pushed him, and told him how he could do this to me,” she told TIME .
María Paula was shocked. I did not understand what happened. There was a lot of pain in his body. The two got into the car and continued arguing. While this was happening, she called her mother in despair and said: ““Mom, they just hit me and it was Antonio Figueredo.”
Figueredo allegedly knocked out her teeth with another punch and questioned her mother why she had betrayed her in this way.
The desperation of that moment was so great that he thought he would lose his life because he held his head and said: ‘I don’t know what to do with you.’
“Antonio stopped the car, turned around and looked at me, saying how I could defraud him, how I could tell people about it. At that moment, he punched me, tried to take my mobile phone to lose all the evidence. He broke his money there.” “My three teeth.”
They finally arrived at HIC and in the midst of despair, the surgeon told his mother that he was damaging her life and image by telling her. Despite all this, I would even suggest they go to Cúcuta.
“He said to me: ‘I don’t know what to do with you, I don’t know what to do with you’. I thought you were going to kill me.”
María Paula managed to drive to her mother’s house and the next day, on November 14, filed a complaint about domestic violence.
“I was in love, I felt bad, the psychologist told me that this happens to all women who are subjected to domestic violence, men manipulate them, threaten them, scare them.”
Figueredo apparently continued to insist that he loved her and suggested that she go to Cúcuta, but María Paula refused and began criminal proceedings with the Prosecutor’s Office.
Finally, in December of the same year, a judge in Bucaramanga, after learning his story of mistreatment and assault, deemed Figueredo not a danger to society and He granted his freedom by providing house arrest. It needs to be with a bracelet right now.
The hearing on the allegations is scheduled for November 22 this year. Figueredo is required to be held accountable for domestic violence, aggravated assaults, and violent sexual intercourse.
This wasn’t the only case made public. At least as soon as María Paula Pizarro complained 15 victims of alleged physical assault, but only two of them decided to announce it to the media.
One of them was from another doctor. Erika Plata with whom she has a similar working style. It was an affair she had with a plastic surgeon in 2013.
He said at the time that the day he thought he would die was the day Figueredo attacked him in his apartment in Bogotá.
“He came in and pushed the door on me. I said go, then he started hitting me, throwing me on the ground, scratching me, pulling down my pants and underwear, so I hit him and locked him. ‘I’m in my room,'” Erika said. She filed a criminal complaint to the prosecutor’s office, but no progress was made in the investigation. said Plata.
It was known that in 2015, there was another complaint about physical assault against another woman, who did not want to give her name at that time. The beating was the same: She was attacked, her hair was pulled, one of her teeth was knocked out, and she was subjected to countless insults.
According to the victim, the surgeon made it clear to the court that: His only relationships with María Paula were sexual relations.
He denied that he had other moments to share with her and his family. However, there are photographs that contradict his version. In them, María is seen riding a bicycle with Paula’s father and in restaurants and bars with the victim.
Pizarro said the version Figueredo gave to authorities was that “she fell and hit the bed; a lot of things that had nothing to do with the case were false complaints.”
He also said that María Paula had psychological problems. “The statement states that he does not have the ability to harm anyone, that he does not have the ability to hit anyone. He only says that he is not involved in scientific activities. He says that he does not remember when they started talking to him. He only said, “They saw him 10 times. We have lots of photos.”
Gender violence is often difficult to recognize. If you or a woman around you is a victim of psychological, physical, economic or sexual violence, contact the national helpline number 155.
MELISSA MUNERA ZAMBRANO
EL TIEMPO correspondent – Bucaramanga
Write to me: [email protected]
Source: Exame
