Femicide of Silvia Saravia: the domestic worker confirmed the fight prior to the crime

10/19/2020 21:03

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Updated 10/19/2020 9:03 PM

After the autopsy of Silvia Saravia (69) confirmed that the woman tried to defend herself from the attack of her husband, Jorge Neuss (72), the investigation by the Pilar Prosecutor's Office for Gender Violence began to work on the profile of the femicide , who committed suicide after killing his wife.

With a family that flatly denied previous acts of violence (and even tried to install the theory of a suicide pact), the witnesses of the environment became key.

And this Monday, one of the two domestic employees who were at the Martindale house at noon on Saturday, October 10, declared once again before the prosecutor María José Basiglio, when the crime occurred.

This worker -the longest in the job- was asked about the sequence prior to the murder, the moment when Saravia entered the house after spending the night at her daughter's.

And he particularly confirmed that on the night of Friday the 9th

The fight was so serious that Silvia Saravia called her daughter Lucila, who lives in the same country and asked her to spend the night at her house.

The employee confirmed in her statement that the woman

and when she returned the next day she stated that she would look for some things and leave, probably with Lucila and her family to Sierra de la Ventana.

The funeral of Jorge Neuss and Silvia Saravia, after the femicide committed by the businessman, who committed suicide.

Photo Marcelo Carroll

As the daughter herself stated last week, her mother told her that she had argued with her father but, she assured, 

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Both she and her other three siblings spoke of arguments, although they tried at all times to frame them in the "normality of the couple."

It is at this point where the facts and the investigation by Basiglio do not coincide with the family version that nothing could predict what ended up happening.

Jorge Neuss shot his wife in the bathroom of the room they shared and did so after she spent the whole night outside, which she had never done before, according to Lucila herself.

The businessman ambushed her, grabbed her by the hair, leaned his head over his left shoulder, rested his .357 Magnum on his wife's right temple and shot her.

He had 30 registered guns, he went hunting.

He knew perfectly well that with such a revolver at that distance death was certain.

After murdering his wife, he committed suicide with the same weapon.

Femicide followed by suicide in Pilar's country Martindale.

Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi.

Prosecutor Basiglio believes that what happened was more than a "homicide aggravated by the bond."

The cause, then, would be framed in the figure of "femicide" and would necessarily refer to a history of violence in which the family does not want to delve into.

Perhaps the biggest clues are given by the witnesses who have yet to testify and the picture is completed with the chemical and telephone expertise ordered by the Justice.

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