The wife of businessman Jorge Neuss tried to defend herself from the attack

10/11/2020 3:52 PM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 10/11/2020 3:55 PM

The forensic doctors confirmed that the businessman Jorge Neuss (72) murdered his wife Silvia Saravia (69) in the country Martindale de Pilar with a single shot to the head after a struggle that left signs of defense on the woman and a rubbing of bullet in the hand of the femicide itself, sources of the investigation reported today.

This is clear from the first results of the autopsies carried out at dawn this Sunday in the morgue that works at the San Fernando Hospital.

According to what the experts told the prosecutor in the case, María José Basiglio, everything indicates that it was a femicide followed by suicide.

Businessman Neuss shot Saravia with a .357 Magnum caliber revolver and then shot him in the temple.

The man was rushed to the Austral Hospital, located about 15 blocks from the closed neighborhood, but he also died.

In that same country, on August 21, 2015 Fernando Farré stabbed his wife Claudia Schaefer (44) to death.

for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Neuss Group is a conglomerate that has been operating in the country for 120 years, the beginning of which was the founding, in 1881, of Soda Neuss Belgrano.

In the 1980s, Jorge Neuss (h) continued his businesses related to energy and financial services and joined the real estate business.

In addition, the Neuss Group owns the Dreyfus office building, located in downtown Buenos Aires, on Avenida Corrientes between Avenida Leandro N. Alem and 25 de Mayo.

With information from Télam