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Cecilia Strzyzowski disappeared on Friday June 2, 2023 in Resistencia, Chaco. The 28-year-old was in a relationship with César Sena, the son of a powerful piquetero couple with close ties to the Peronist governor of Chaco, Jorge Capitanich.
César Sena was the one who picked her up at a relative’s house, in the 500 Viviendas de Barranqueras neighborhood, to take her to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, where supposedly Emericiano Sena and Marcela Acuña, César’s parents, had gotten her a job for their political contacts. The young woman has been missing until this Monday for ten days.
Sena turned herself in on Saturday and her parents are in custody, suspected of having participated in the girl’s disappearance after a search of her home, where they found bloodstains and millions of pesos in cash.
Cesar Sena and Cecilia Strzyzowski
The case was left in charge of the gender violence prosecutor Jorge Cáceres Olivera, who activated the protocol of alleged femicide. In the first hours of the investigation, it was ruled out that Cecilia had left the province on some public transport.
1. The disappearance of Cecilia
Cecilia and César had met through Tinder in December 2021, and they began a relationship. It was full of fights and jealousy, according to the complaint made by Gloria Romero, Cecilia’s mother, when she appeared in court last week.
According to Diario Norte, the first outlet to raise the disappearance case, César was jealous of an ex of his partner. Either way, they decided to get married. Some versions indicated that the couple was in divorce proceedings, but since the disappearance of the girl, the versions have been mixed and there are contradictions.
The last person to see Cecilia on June 1 before the alleged trip with Sena was her great-aunt, Mercedes Flores. Cecilia got into her partner’s white Toyota Hilux van and they set out on the road.
The plan consisted of sleeping at Emerenciano and Marcela’s house, and the next day going to Corrientes to take a plane to Ushuaia with a stopover in Buenos Aires.
The last image of Cecilia Strzyzowski alive. On Friday, June 2, before entering the Sena home.
A security camera from the Resistencia center recorded that at midnight on June 1 they entered the “Gato Negro” cafeteria. Another visual record known in the last few hours shows Cecilia at 9:15 on Friday the 2nd entering the family’s house at Santa María de Oro 1460. That was the last time her phone was on, and no one else saw her again. .
2. Denial
From that moment, Cecilia’s family began to denounce the disappearance of the girl on social networks and in justice. When the issue gained relevance, the Senas even denied that the two had ever been a couple, but this was false: photos of the marriage of César and Cecilia denied it. There they began to say that they did go out, but they had separated “on good terms.”
They also denied that César was with Cecilia at the time of the disappearance and stated that he was at a party rally at the time.
3. Links with politics
César Sena’s family is not just any in Chaco: there is, behind them, a lot of political power and a great connection with the Peronist governor Jorge Capitanich.
Emerenciano Sena has been the most powerful piquetero in the province since the ’90s, to such an extent that some call him “the Chaco Sala Miracle.” He leads a social organization that bears his name: Movimiento Emerenciano. His link with Capitanich reflects how his influence has grown remarkably since 2007.
The relationship between them is so close that Capitanich was best man at his wedding with Marcela Acuña in 2014.
The Chaqueño Front ballot that will be presented next week in the PASO. There Capitanich, Sena and Acuña appear.
The concern of the Sena-Acuña couple is twofold: for the future of their son and also because, according to them, this is a “political persecution”, since both appear on a ticket of the Chaco Front, aligned with the governor for the primary elections. to be held next Sunday in Chaco. After his arrest, local Peronism hastened to ask the Justice to invalidate them.
4. Suspicions about the Sena
Due to the pressure that the case was taking, César appeared before the Justice last Thursday morning, where he arrived accompanied by his mother and by militants of the Emerenciano Movement.
In that first judicial declaration there were elements that did not close and aroused the suspicions of the prosecutor Jorge Cáceres Olivera. The young man had a conspicuous scratch on his neck.
From justice they requested a medical review. The boy agreed, but his mother refused, according to the journalist Hugo Horacio Peralta on Twitter. He claimed that it should be in the presence of a lawyer.
But the situation became more complicated after the statement of a witness close to the Sena, who would have contradicted the official version.
So much was the nervousness that Acuña ordered his protesters to enter the police station to take over the place and “rescue” the witness, at a time when they threatened to lynch several police officers.
5. The arrests
The next day, Justice raided the Sena house. There they found bloodstains, five million pesos in cash and “other useful elements for the cause,” according to local media reports.
With these elements, the prosecutor advanced with the arrest request against Emerenciano Sena and Marcela Acuña, affirming that he found elements to affirm that “they had direct participation.”
After that episode, César disappeared without a trace. For this reason, the prosecutor issued a national and international arrest warrant. This Saturday he turned himself in before the Department of Family Violence of Resistencia.
Fabiana González, who was a close collaborator of the Sena, and her partner, Gustavo Obregón, who fell on Sunday, were also arrested. There are also two other people in custody who could provide key elements.
6. The hypotheses of the case
As Olivera himself stated to Diario Norte, after the arrests, there are three hypotheses he handles: identity suppression, human trafficking or femicide.
Now, it is speculated that there could be a collaborator of the Sena-Acuña family at the scene of Cecilia’s disappearance. The strongest hypothesis holds that she would be the Sena’s domestic employee.
7. A field under the magnifying glass
Last Sunday an exhaustive search was carried out in one of the family’s fields, a property of about 100 hectares where sausages are produced located in a rural area of the town of Campo Rossi, in the Chaco department of 1° de Mayo.
Police officers, bloodhound dogs and firefighters worked there to try to rake a wide area that was not completely covered by the time it got dark.
What they could find was sufficient evidence to suspect that the young woman would have been there. There were articles of clothing and documentation that was burned on the same days that Cecilia disappeared.
They also found shovels and bone remains, which were to be examined by the provincial Institute of Medicine and Forensic Sciences. They seek to determine whether or not they are rural animals.
8. Cecilia’s last message
In dialogue with the TN channel, Ángela Strzyzowski, Cecilia’s sister, said that she had a brief communication with the disappeared woman before her cell phone went off.
“We spoke by messages because I am not one to call. She asked me if I was awake, and I told her yes. It was late, so I cannot specify if it was during the last hours of Thursday or the first hours of Friday before I did not know I knew nothing more about her. And he tells me: ‘I’m leaving for Ushuaia and I wanted to say goodbye, look if the plane crashes,’ he said.
Ángela reported that there has been no contact with the family in the last few hours, but that although there has been no news, “they are prepared for the worst.”
And he added: “I don’t think we’ll see her again. The authorities gave us to understand that there was a homicide.”
9. Key expert reports
The prosecutor investigating the disappearance and possible femicide of the 28-year-old girl said that the results of the expert reports that will be carried out on the skeletal remains and blood stains found on a property belonging to the family of the woman’s partner are awaiting. , the Seine.
This Monday, a young woman from the Emerenciano Sena press team broke down in court and handed over her cell phone to the police.
He had messages from Patricia Acuña, Cesar’s aunt, telling that several members of the family clan had to change the phone that Friday because “it broke.”
10. The position of Jorge Capitanich
The governor of Chaco, Jorge Capitanich, referred to the disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski. His position on the case was highly expected, since those involved share the electoral formula.
Jorge Capitanich spoke about the Cecilia Strzyzowski case. Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi
On Sunday night, during an act in the town of General San Martín, Capitanich affirmed: “We are not going to hesitate to promote the justice that is necessary, but the head of the criminal action is the prosecutor, the auxiliary of justice is the police, and the State will propose and defend the victims of any violence”.
Through a statement, it was specified that “from the moment the young woman’s mother filed a complaint about the disappearance of her daughter, the provincial government launched the protocols of the Provincial Person Search System alerting both provincial forces as federal, and to other provinces on the case”.
This Monday, the Electoral Court of Chaco excluded Emerenciano Sena and José Gustavo Obregón as pre-candidates for Provincial Deputies in first and fifth place, respectively, and Marcela Verónica Acuña and Fabiana Cecilia González as pre-candidates for Mayor and Councilor in second place for Resistencia.
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