The Argentine Police announced on Monday, September 29, the arrest of a seventh suspect in relation to the murder of three young women broadcast live last week on Monday, September 29, which is linked to drug trafficking last week.
The bodies of Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo, two cousins of 20 years, and Lara Gutiérrez, 15, were found on Wednesday, buried near a house in the great suburbs of southern Buenos Aires, five days after their disappearance.
According to Provincial Minister of Security Javier Alonso, they were trapped, believing to go to a party, and suffered before being killed by a torture session that 45 members of a closed social network would have seen live, apparently to give an example in a criminal group.
Police announced on Monday the arrest of a young woman after an interview that gave a local television channel.
The sponsor would be a drug trafficker
The suspect would have been seen in a car belonging to his uncle, arrested on Friday in Bolivia, very close to the Argentine border, suspected of having provided logistical support to the transport of young victims.
On Wednesday, two men and two women were arrested before a sixth suspect this Saturday.
According to the authorities, the man suspected of being a sponsor of this massacre is a 20 -year -old Peruvian, a drug trafficker, nicknamed “Petit J”, who carried out criminal activities in a disadvantaged area south of Buenos Aires. An international arrest warrant against him was issued. His alleged Lieutenant, 23, is also sought.
“You have to protect women”
Several thousand people demonstrated on Saturday in Buenos Aires to claim justice after this murder. The march had been convened by the influential organization “or less” (not a less) than fight against gender violence.
Parents, brother, cousin, grandfather … several members of the families of the victims, behind a flag with the names “Lara, Brenda, Morena” and signed with the effigy of the three “girls” who paraded at the top of the procession, launched by a feminist movement and swollen by several radical organizations of the left, between May and Parliament.
“You have to protect women, that this never happens again,” said Leonel del Castillo, Brenda’s father with a lot of movement. In the week, he said that “he could not recognize” his daughter’s body, due to abuse.
“They were not murderers, but Seditos de Blood. Even in an animal we do not do what they did to them,” said the grandfather.
“It was a narco-feminicide!” “Our lives are not disposable!”, “We love each other!” Could we read signs and banners, in the case, of a very relative magnitude compared to recurring social mobilizations in Buenos Aires?
“The socioeconomic injustice” that weighs girls
The cousin of Brenda and Morena, and present in the demonstration, Federico Celebon declared in an interview that he reached his cousins to participate in prostitution “to survive”, in a context of poverty and knowledge of the family. According to several media, they were invited to this goal at the fatal night last Friday.
For Federico, they had “bad luck” to “be at the wrong time with bad people.” “They were only victims of a system that left them another option to access ‘this type of work’ to survive (…) to have to offer their body for one night, two nights, a weekend or the time it takes in exchange for a little money,” he said.
“We always try to feel guilty, we know everything about their lives, what I was doing there, how is the family (…), we publish their photos, but we don’t know anything about the authors, not their names, their faces are blurred …” Yamila Alegre rumbled, a 35 -year -old leather walking on Saturday.
He also pointed out “socioeconomic injustice” that weighs first in girls “, when you live in a poor neighborhood, with few resources, few possibilities, such as where I grew up, in Ituzaingo”, in the great suburbs of Buenos Aires.
“There is poverty in our neighborhood, but what is said in Lara is false,” he protested from the Galvan Valley, Lara’s aunt, refuting any bond of her niece with drugs or prostitution.
Brenda was her, mother of a one -year -old baby, whom her grandparents will collect, her cousin said. “I promised the family that we will accompany the little one until the end. We hope to see him grow, and one day we will tell him about the mother he had (…) a super mother.”
Source: BFM TV
