Virginia Messi
10/17/2020 11:54 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/17/2020 11:54 PM
What led Jorge Neuss (72) to shoot his wife in the head?
How could he, minutes before the crime, send two birthday messages to two friends as calmly as possible?
Had you drunk alcohol?
Was she about to leave him?
Is the family hiding information?
Why was the theory of a suicide pact tried to install?
What was the reason for the heated discussion the night before?
What information do cell phones keep that Justice could not open yet?
Posed to raise questions, the femicide of Silvia Saravia (69), which occurred on Saturday 10 at noon, has dozens.
However, just over a week after the femicide, the main points are clear:
the woman was killed by a bullet in the head by her husband
, who later committed suicide with the same weapon.
Everything happened in their house in the country Martindale de Pilar, more precisely in the en suite bathroom of the room they shared and that - according to a son and the married couple's domestic workers - was closed from the inside and had to be pulled down.
That is, they were alone and so far there is no reason to suspect the instigation of a third party.
With the author dead, the law automatically
"extinguishes the criminal action"
against him.
That is the legal term.
No one needs to present defense attorneys because there is no one to defend, charge, prosecute or prosecute.
In this case, in addition, the perpetrator and the victim were spouses and at first it does not seem that any of their four children is willing to go further into the details of the homicide.
Next week Saravia's sister may testify as a witness, but so far nothing indicates that she intends to present herself as a private victim.
The Neuss brothers, at the couple's farewell, in the Recoleta cemetery.
Photo Marcelo Carroll
If something can be said in the Neuss case, it is that the prosecutor Maria José Basiglio - from the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) for Gender Violence in Pilar - managed in record time to put together a skeleton of the femicide chronology.
In a few days he had an autopsy that buried the already
weak family theory of the "suicide pact"
, determined that the victim had never left the country and obtained the key testimony of Lucila Neuss, daughter of Jorge and Silvia.
Lucina told her that on the night of Friday the 9th her mother called her to ask her to sleep at her house, something that had never happened before.
He also said that the next day they had breakfast together and, each in her car, left for Saravia's house, where Neuss had spent the night.
In her statement, Lucila made no reference to her mother accompanying her to Sierra de La Ventana where she was about to leave for a few days with her children.
That as a way to calm down with Jorge Neuss.
But this rumor is the one that persists: that Silvia went into her house to get some things for the trip and there Neuss
ambushed her in the bathroom
to stop her.
The couple was buried in the same sector within the Buenos Aires cemetery.
Photo Marcelo Carroll
Having her cornered, he grabbed her by the hair with his left hand, bowed his head, put his 357 Magnum revolver on his wife's right temple, and shot her despite her attempts to get away.
Then with the same revolver he shot himself in the head.
That is what happened.
A very clear femicide.
Neither suicide pact nor madness rapture.
What happened between 10 p.m. on Friday the 9th when Saravia went to her daughter's house and 12 noon on Saturday the 10th when she returned to the house she shared with Neuss?
Did she chat with someone at dawn?
Did he do it?
Did you follow up the discussion with messages?
Unknowns that are part of the doubts.
Is it true that Silvia Saravia was sad lately?
Is it true that you wanted to distance yourself from your husband because he was becoming more and more violent?
Does your sister know anything else?
Her friends?
His daughter Lucila?
They also make up the list of questions that this femicide contains.
There are many questions but there is one that, at least for reflection, prevails over the rest: Justice, the media and the public, do they need those answers?
GL
Look also
Silvia Saravia's request to her daughter after a strong fight with Jorge Neuss: "Can I go to sleep at your house?"
Neuss case: they could not open the three iPhones of the couple and found old photos of the family in a camera
