05/28/2020 - 16:40
- Clarín.com
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"This is from Marcelo," Gustavo "El Oso" Pereyra's assassin shouted in the moment before killing him with 7 bullets that came out of a 9-millimeter weapon. This gangster message was heard before he was shot through the door of his apartment in the Don Orione neighborhood of Claypole. For that reason, the Buenosairean Police looked for and looked for this "Marcelo". And, in that context, there was a bar that had all the tickets for the magnifying glass of Justice to point on him.
The cannons -then- went towards Marcelo de Lomas , also nicknamed "El Manco" , who -in the end- was arrested for another cause (La Salada) when he was number three in driving the Boca bar, behind Rafael Di Zeo and Mauro Martín. But it was even ruled out by the Bear's own family : his mother and sister declared that this "Marcelo" was someone linked to the meat guild.
“We are all shocked by what happened to Pereyra. Aravena, Di Zeo and everyone who knew him is amazed. But this happened has nothing to do with the rostrum. Neither Rafa, Mauro nor Marcelo Aravena have anything to do with it. Nobody from the bar ... El Oso was distanced from the court, but they had affection for him (sic), " the lawyer at the top of La Doce , Diego Storto, told Clarín.
Gustavo Amadeo "El Oso" Pereyra, together with Rafa Di Zeo, in Courts. Pereyra was riddled with 7 bullets in the Don Orione neighborhood of Claypole. (Photo: DyN / Ricardo Abad).
Aravena is a historic Barrabrava from Boca who two months ago was released from prison. This Tuesday he went to open the door of his house in Lomas de Zamora after the bell rang, but when he left he found a person who shot him three times. He was saved because the shots did not go out. Was it a "comeback" ? A reckoning? Who sent to kill him? Questions that the Justice already began to investigate after a complaint was filed at the 9th Police Station in Parque Barón.
Marcelo Aravena, on the right, in a 2009 image. It is a key bar of the Lomas faction. (Photo: Clarín Archive).
The cause for "attempted homicide" that occurred on Tuesday 26, at 11 am, is being investigated by UFI Number 3 in Lomas de Zamora. Witnesses said they saw a person get off a motorcycle with a white mask , ring the bell of Carolina Muzzilli's house at 400 (almost at the intersection with Calle Madrid), return to the vehicle to look for a weapon and flee after the missed shots. According to sources in the investigation, "there are prints on the doorbell and on the door of Aravena's house" that have already been picked up by the Police.
In addition, the Justice is analyzing the videos of the surroundings of the home to find the author of the act .
Rafa Di Zeo, Mauro Martín and Marcelo Aravena in a Boca-River Superclassic played in the summer of 2015 in Mendoza. (Photo: Clarín Archive).
Marcelo de Lomas was also the head of the brave bar of Los Andes and was in Florencio Varela's prison with Alejandro "Cepillo" Vélez Robles, another former member of La Doce who lives in Ingeniero Budge. That prison housed more than double the inmates of their full capacity. Aravena and Vélez Robles have been in preventive detention since 2017 accused of being part of an illicit association that "squeezed" the fairgrounds of La Salada, in Lomas de Zamora, to ask them for money for "security".
What are Cascini, Basualdo and Turco García doing being functional to a faction of the Barra de Boca crime? There are serious problems in the Lomas de la 12 faction because Aravena left and the others stayed inside. Why are these former players functional to crime? pic.twitter.com/t0JggDklPT
- María Florencia Arietto 🇦🇷 (@Florenciarietto) April 22, 2020He was released by Chamber 3 of the Court of Appeals in the criminal area of Lomas de Zamora and -now- Aravena has been monitored for two months, after being detained with preventive detention and leaving for having completed the maximum time to be in prison in that condition.
He was released from prison in early March, a few days before the National Government decreed the start of social, preventive and compulsory isolation as part of health prevention due to the pandemic unleashed by the coronavirus.
Aravena was the bodyguard of Enrique "Quique" Antequera, owner of the Urkupiña fair, located a few meters from the Riachuelo, in Lomas de Zamora, and awarded several bars with a trip to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa that ended with one dead: Luis Forlenza, also member of La Banda de Lomas. Antequera, called "Rey de La Salada" and founder of the Urkupiña fair, is also serving house arrest after being prosecuted in 2018 for heading the illicit association that handled illegal posts and extorted money from shopkeepers.
In La Salada many "excellent profitability" businesses were carried out (more than 60 million pesos per month) that the Justice grouped into two cases for "illicit association, theft, extortion of fairgrounds, sale of street stalls, drugs and rags to park in place . " These arrests were ordered by the judge of guarantees Gabriel Vitale, at the request of the assistant prosecutor Sebastián Scalera.
A year ago, three footballers from the Xeneize squad (Mauro Zárate, Emanuel Reynoso and Julio Buffarini) went to visit Aravena in Unit 23 of the Florencio Varela prison. It was the day after the Superclásico by date 5 of the Superliga. And ex-soccer players Walter Pico and José Pepe Basualdo also participated . But what attracted the most attention was the presence as "visit" of Rafael Di Zeo, the historical leader of the Boca bar. From the prison they reported that it was a "simple recreational activity" ...
Among his history of violent acts in soccer, Aravena was imprisoned for 12 years for the murders of two River fans (Angel Delgado and Walter Vallejos) , in an ambush that occurred in April 1994, when José Barritta -alias "El Abuelo" - He was the boss of La Doce.
The Aravena-Di Zeo relationship always had its twists and turns. According to the journalist Gustavo Grabia, Aravena led an attack in February 2006, shortly after he was released from prison, against the Boca bars that, led by Di Zeo, played soccer and shared a barbecue on the club's premises, at Casa Amarilla. The attack miraculously ended with no injuries.
He was also involved in the crimes of Marcelo Carnevale and Angel Díaz, in August 2013, killed by an internal fight at the Boca bar in the vicinity of the Nuevo Gasómetro, in San Lorenzo. Judge Manuel De Campos ordered his arrest in the Ezeiza prison, but later released him because he could not verify that he was one of those who shot from a motorcycle wearing a helmet. His defense could prove that he was somewhere else at the time of the attack. Carnevale's father publicly accused "Rafa" Di Zeo of being the mastermind behind the two deaths.
The historic leader of the Lomas faction, the most dangerous of all, was also the protagonist, in February, of another internal confrontation in Córdoba, where Boca played against Talleres for the Super League that in the end ended up conquering. As if to make it clear that The Twelve is -almost- always on fire ...
