07/09/2020 - 13:44
Clarín.com
Society
This Saturday night Ludmila went out with a friend.
They went together to a meeting with other young people, only six blocks from her house, but she never returned.
She was the victim of a femicide and they suspect that she was murdered between 6.30 and 11 on Sunday.
By the fact they are looking for a 19-year-old young man who rented the room where they found the body.
The property is located at 4038 Diario La Nación street, in Francisco Álvarez, Moreno district.
On Saturday night a young man named Cristian Jerez organized a meeting, despite bans to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
According to neighbors, this person did it "every weekend" regardless of the restrictions imposed by the isolation.
It is a piece of land with several rented buildings that share the entrance and a patio.
Jerez is in the background.
Ludmila and her friend Mayra went to this house on Saturday night.
They knew Jerez through her cousin.
About 10 people passed through the place during the night, but by dawn four remained: Ludmila, Mayra, Cristian and her cousin.
It was they who declared that Ludmila was left alone with Jerez, in addition to the testimony of the neighbors.
Cristian Jerez (19), wanted for the femicide of Ludmila Pretti in Francisco Álvarez, Moreno.
From Ludmila's cell phone they sent a message advising that she was about to return home in a remote area.
It was around 6.30 in the morning.
It is not clear that she was the one who did it.
As he did not arrive, his mother made the complaint at the police station after tracking down those who had participated.
It was Ludmila's parents who identified the people who were at the meeting and named them to the Police.
An uncle, who is an agent of the Federal, tracked the location of her cell phone and detected that the phone never left that house.
The phone had its last connection at eight in the morning and then disappeared.
Thus, an hour later, at the request of the prosecutor Federico So Señora, they raided the home and found her.
Ludmila was dead and her body was hidden under the bed.
Judicial sources confirmed to
Clarín
that, according to the first indications, the adolescent was killed by "
mechanical asphyxia
" and that the scarf she had around her neck "is compatible with the injuries found on her body."
While they wait for the autopsy to be finalized to be more certain, the family hopes to say their last goodbye to the 14-year-old girl.
Ludmila Pretti (14) was murdered in Francisco Álvarez, Moreno.
Ludmila had a brother and lived with her mother six blocks from the scene.
Her father, Leandro Pretti, told
Semanario Actualidad
: "He's the one who was renting the house.
They all left and the girl was left alone with him
. There are neighbors who said he was used to threatening."
"The one who escaped was talking to me here, he looked me in the eye. He said he was going to look for a document and never came back. They shouldn't have let him out. Today it was my turn. I hope it won't touch anyone. father more, "he closed.
The fugitive was in the vicinity of the police station before the search was requested, he spoke with the policemen who began the search and escaped before they entered his house.
Now he is on the run.
A neighbor who lives on the same land, in another apartment, declared that she had heard the victim asking for help: "That witness stated that she saw Ludmila at Cristian's house on Sunday 6 at 7 o'clock at the bottom of the same lot. And she listened shouting, she said that
Ludmila wanted to leave
and that Jerez would not let her. She also saw that there was someone else but she saw that they left. She said that Cristian was left with Ludmila, the two of them alone in the house, and she never heard her again. "
"He said that Jerez is
a violent person
and always threatened them with death for anything. That he saw him during the day (on Sunday) and in the afternoon after 5:00 p.m. he did not see him again," said police sources regarding the story. of the witness.
For investigators, there are indications that Ludmila tried to resist
a sexual assault
and that she was murdered inside that house.
Ivana Pretti, Ludmila's aunt, posted on social networks: "There are no words to express what she feels, she always watched TV when girls disappeared and today it is our turn to ask for justice for you, my only niece, the one loved by all To think what you have suffered in those moments, my heart breaks into a thousand pieces. God, I only ask you for justice for Ludmila Pretti ".
At around 1 p.m. a demonstration began at the door of the Francisco Álvarez police station to demand justice for the femicide and the arrest of the fugitive.
The investigation was left to the Prosecutor's Office No. 4 of Moreno, in charge of Federico So Señora.
In the last ten years in Argentina there is an average of one femicide every 30 hours.
According to statistics from the Office of Domestic Violence of the Supreme Court, in 2018 alone there were 278. Most murders occur in the homes of the victims and are committed by partners or exes.
Where to call
Line 144
Care for women in situations of violence.
Line 137
Attention to Victims of Family Violence.
911 Emergencies
EMJ
