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The search for Cecilia Strzyzowski has Chaco on edge. Twelve days after the disappearance of the young woman, on Sunday a series of raids were carried out in the field that belongs to the piquetero leader Emerenciano Sena, where elements were found that allow the prosecutor in the case to suspect that the young woman would have been murdered right there. .
Sena, the most powerful piquetero leader in the province and an ally of Governor Jorge Capitanich, is being held with his wife Marcela Acuña and their son, César Sena, who was Cecilia’s partner. He is also the person who came looking for her hours before she disappeared.
According to judicial sources confirmed to Clarín, Cecilia and César were together touring various points of Resistance throughout the night of June 1, including a gym and a bar. The reconstruction was made based on the material from several security cameras that captured the couple’s night.
The last image of Cecilia alive is around 9 in the morning on Friday the 2nd, when she was entering one of the Sena homes. That was the last time she was on her cell phone.
This is just one of the various indications that allow prosecutor Jorge Cáceres to point against the ‘Sena clan’ for the disappearance of the young woman. This Sunday an exhaustive search was carried out in one of the family’s fields, a property of about 100 hectares where sausages are produced.
The last image of Cecilia Strzyzowski alive. On Friday, June 2, before entering the Sena home.
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.
In any case, 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.
Once the sun went down and the searches could not continue, the prosecutor began to investigate two other people close to the Sena and carried out tests on two vehicles belonging to the clan, which could provide relevant information.
But it is not a simple investigation, recognize sources of Justice. It is that Sena is synonymous with power in the province and has people everywhere. “El Milagro Sala Chaqueño”, affirm several consulted provincial sources, in reference to the territorial power that he built.
That is why the secrecy around the case is total. Even so, one of the confidential raids that the Justice ordered mysteriously leaked almost a day before. “It goes through many hands,” protests a source from the investigation to Clarín.
To the pressures of politics are added those of the street. It is that while justice was investigating in the countryside, a march promoted by Cecilia’s family began in the Resistencia center to demand justice and the appearance of the young woman alive.
It is estimated that some 2,000 people accompanied the family, on a very cold afternoon. The mobilization toured the Government House, the Procurator General of the Province and culminated in front of the Third Commissioner and the Department of Family and Gender Violence, according to Diario Norte.
Massive march in Resistencia to request the appearance alive of Cecilia Strzyzowski (Courtesy of Diario Norte)
The case had moved intensely on Saturday, first with the arrest of César Sena, Cecilia’s husband, who was a fugitive for 24 hours after testifying as a witness on Thursday. 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.
That Saturday, in one of the raids on the Sena field, the Justice encountered another surprise. The landlord responsible for the house was a man named Gustavo Melgarejo, who was on the run for a case of gender violence. Melgarejo was detained for that other cause, although he was previously asked to collaborate with the rakes in the field, indicating the key points.
Emerenciano Sena and his wife, Marcela Acuña, are two of the leading piqueteros with the greatest weight in the province. For more than a decade they have been synonymous with shock forces on the streets. His organization, the Emerenciano Movement, has social neighborhoods in the south of the capital and a fluid link with the government of Jorge Capitanich
In the last hours, from the provincial government they sought to detach themselves from Emerenciano. The Chaqueño Front itself came out to ask the electoral justice to allow the removal of the name of Sena and Acuña from the electoral lists that were being prepared for the elections next Sunday.
It is that Sena and Acuña headed the ballots for candidate for provincial deputy and mayor of Resistencia respectively, in a list that was led by Capitanich. From the provincial government they hope that Justice can authorize the change to reprint the ballots before they reach the dark room.
How was the disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski
Cecilia was last seen on June 1, when César Sena, her husband, picked her up at a relative’s house to accompany her to Ushuaia, where Acuña, the young woman’s mother-in-law, had gotten her a full-time job. permanent by his contacts in politics.
He arrived aboard a white Toyota Hilux van. They were going to sleep at the house of Emerenciano and Acuña and the next day they would go to Corrientes to take a plane to Ushuaia with a stopover in Buenos Aires.
There contact was lost. Gloria Romero, Cecilia’s mother, wanted to exchange audio and video calls with Cecilia, but her response was that “her cell phone had broken.” Then they turned it off. A great-aunt of Cecilia wrote to César’s phone to find out about the girl’s whereabouts, to which he first replied that she was already in Ushuaia and then that “Cecilia had run away with a lover in Buenos Aires or something like that.” The two phone lines were never turned on again.
Marcela Acuña, Cesar Sena and Emerenciano Sena
From then on, Cecilia’s family began to denounce the disappearance of the girl on social networks and in Justice. When the issue began to gain importance, the Sena clan even denied that the two had ever been a couple, but this was false: photos of the marriage of César and Cecilia denied them. There they began to say that they did go out, but they had separated “on good terms.”
As detailed by Ángela, the sister of the disappeared, “César’s mother did not accept the relationship between them.” Even the same girl asked her family not to associate with the Sena: “She had asked us to stay away. She supposedly wasn’t afraid of him, but of his environment. We never had much contact with them, we never met them. They didn’t even go to the wedding.”
“César went out everywhere with a firearm, since he stated that he was politically persecuted; and that he was a person with psychiatric and psychological treatment, ”Cecilia’s mother told local media.
Cesar Sena and Cecilia Strzyzowski
But as the hours passed, the situation became more complex. Due to the pressure that the case was taking, César gave a statement last Thursday morning before the Justice. He arrived accompanied by his mother and by militants from the Emerenciano Movement who took over the place.
In that first statement before the court there were elements that did not close and aroused the suspicions of the prosecutor. The young man had a conspicuous scratch on his neck.
But the situation became more complicated after the statement by Fabiana González, the second detainee, who 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” González, at a time when they threatened to lynch several police officers.
The next day, Justice raided the Sena house. There he found bloodstains, five million pesos in cash and “other useful elements for the cause,” according to local media reports. With these elements, the prosecutor moved forward with the arrest request against Emerenciano Sena and Marcela Acuña, after finding elements to affirm that they “had direct participation” in the disappearance of their daughter-in-law.
The three Sena are expected to testify between Monday or Tuesday at the latest, to explain the inconsistencies in the story and help solve the mystery of what happened to Cecilia Strzyzowski.
