Gabriel Bermudez
07/15/2020 - 10:29
- Clarín.com
- Police
With another icy dawn in the south of Buenos Aires, the raking resumed in the Villarino district, to find Facundo Astudillo Castro (22) , who has been missing for 76 days. About 200 federal agents will concentrate their work on Wednesday between Lieutenant Origone and Pedro Luro, the city from which the young man left on April 29 for Bahía Blanca.
To the extensive operation that on Tuesday covered a vast sector of fields, mountains and flooded sectors, dogs trained by Viedma's trainer Marcos Herrero are added on this day. His presence had been requested by Cristina Castro, Facundo's mother, before the Bahía Blanca federal court investigating his enforced disappearance.
The dogs, together with the K9 canine group of the Punta Alta firefighters, work from samples of clothing or elements of the missing youth and will be destined for specific searches. Meanwhile, the agents of the Federal Police, Prefecture, Gendarmerie and Airport Security Police, coordinated by the Federal Search System, will continue to sweep the area determined by the prosecution.
Officials, NCOs and agents from Mar del Plata, Necochea, Olavarría, Tandil, Pinamar, Chascomús, Dolores, Azul and Bahía Blanca participate in this task. Most travel on foot and in parallel the extensions of field, while others with mobiles and drones follow the trail of roads and more difficult areas to access, near the muddy southern coast of Buenos Aires.
As Clarín reported , on Tuesday, the search, without positive results, was concentrated between Lieutenant Origone and the phytosanitary post at kilometer 714 of national route 3, the area closest to Bahía Blanca. For this Wednesday, the focus will be on the south of the town where two police officers from Mayor Buratovich claim to have left Facundo in the early afternoon of April 30.
In parallel, in the Alsina 317 Prosecutor's Office in Bahía Blanca, the prosecutor Santiago Ulpiano Martínez, advances with the checking of the testimonies already collected during the investigation of the case by the provincial justice. For this day, the three witnesses who said they had seen two policemen climb Facundo into a police van on April 30, near Mayor Buratovich, are expected.
The time they say that happened, around 3:40 p.m., is similar to the time one of the police officers claims to have observed, but near Lieutenant Origone, 25 kilometers south. From these contradictory statements, Facundo's mother resorted to federal justice.
White Bay. Correspondent.
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