Global Courant 2023-05-15 10:49:22
It happened in Rafael Castillo and the investigators believe that it could have been a settling of scores that was not directed at the victim. There were stones against patrol cars and a police booth set on fire.
The murder of a 25-year-old girl in Rafael Castillo provoked this Sunday a strong reaction against the Police of the residents of that town of La Matanza. There were stones against patrol cars and a police booth set on fire.
The victim, identified as Evelin Marianella Portillo, was at dawn with her boyfriend and some friends at the intersection of García Merou and Polledo streets, in an area of seized land known as “La Nueva Unión”, when four suspects aboard two motorcycles they were attacked with bullets.
As a result of this attack, Portillo, the mother of a 4-year-old girl, was shot at least once in the back, for which she was urgently transferred to the Favaloro Hospital in Rafael Castillo, where she was admitted lifeless. Two other men were injured.
Investigators ruled out for the moment that it was a robbery and believe that it was in the context of a failed reckoning, which was aimed at a known drug dealer in the area.
One of the attackers was recognized by the victim’s boyfriend with the nickname “Chuki”.
At night, meanwhile, there were clashes between the residents of the place and the Police. In videos that circulated through social networks, images were seen with stones thrown against the patrol cars, in addition to the burning of a police booth.
The police personnel even had to position themselves behind the vehicles, before starting the withdrawal.
The case was left in the hands of the prosecutor Karina Licalzi in charge of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) Thematic Homicide of La Matanza.
Threats and assault on journalists in La Matanza
The party located to the west of the Buenos Aires suburbs was also in the news this Wednesday when journalistic teams from LN+ and C5N were threatened and assaulted by two young men who, holding a weapon, attacked and assaulted them during their coverage of a drug dispute in the Las Antennas, in the town of Lomas del Mirador.
The episode was recorded live and direct by one of the cameras of one of the news programs that had come to the site to report on a shooting that occurred on Tuesday night, when part of the gang presumably led by Chaki Chan -a renowned drug trafficker in the region – tried to take over the territory despite the resistance of the neighbors.
Two minutes before 8:30 and after starting his report, journalist Ignacio Damonte took a few steps back, lowered his microphone and gave the order to do the same with the camera that his coverage partner, Jonatan, was handling. And the transmission was cut off, partially.
The following postcards were as outrageous as they were incredible, because the images that were reproduced showed the pavement, a fragment of a truck, and outstretched hands, making it clear that the device and the work equipment were on the ground.
In the background, the screams, reproaches and insults added more drama to the sequence that, in itself, was tense for others. “We’re leaving, we’re leaving. They just pointed a gun at us,” the LN+ journalist managed to express, who was surprised by two attackers on Almirante Brown street, between Salcedo and Pagola.
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