Nahuel Gallotta
10/24/2020 7:43 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 10/24/2020 7:43 PM
In this territory there are scenes from fiction: Ricardo (Rodrigo de la Serna) knocks on the door of one of the departments of "Las Torres de Dock Sud".
He asks for "El Pollo", introduces himself as his friend and they make him pass.
After hours, "El Negro Pablo" (Dante Mastropierro) and his friends tell him the truth: with "El Pollo" everything is wrong;
they beat him, take off his clothes.
"Now you're going to have to dance for all the bums," they threaten him.
Suddenly, the door rattles again.
"Chiqui" (Franco Tirri) pretends to be a client.
He claims to come from a contact and asks to be sold seeds (LSD).
Behind him enter Walter (Ariel Staltari) and "El Pollo" (Diego Alonso), who surprise the locals, rescue Ricardo, and escape.
The scene, one of the best in the "Okupas" series, is still in the memory of its fans.
Twenty years later, in those same towers, a non-fiction dispute ends in a tragic event:
a five-month-old baby is shot in the head.
There are no clapperboards, no makeup artists, no directors.
Just reporters and news cameras.
The first scene of the non-fiction tragic event is starring
"Marianito"
, from Tower 5 of the Nicolás Avellaneda Housing Complex, next to the Buenos Aires-La Plata Highway, at the height of Avellaneda.
Around noon on Thursday, he enters the rival territory: walk through Tower 3, enter a delicatessen, show a gun and say to the woman who attends:
"Where is your son? I'm going to kill him !.
Tell him. I'm looking for it! ".
One of the points of conflict, Tower 5, where some of its inhabitants have a rivalry with Tower 3. Photo Marcelo Carroll
Since he was released from jail, he promised shots for the two "referents" of Tower 3:
Hernán García (21)
and
Iván Amarilla (24)
.
The first is the son of the woman from the rotisserie.
"Marianito" is leaving.
Automatically, the woman calls her son on the phone.
He tells you what just happened.
One of the many differences between fiction and non-fiction is the "codes."
Rarely does a series or movie reflect the logic and laws of a setting like the Towers of Dock Sud. "And what did you want me to do, friend?" Asks
Clarín's
contact
to enter the neighborhood.
It refers to Hernán García.
"They threatened the mother ... and in a place like that, if they mess with your mother and you do nothing, you are nobody ... you lose respect. I had to go look for him ...".
The neighborhood has its vocabulary.
In the jargon, García and Amarilla were going to "get revenge."
If they didn't, they would be
"broke" by "Marianito."
"Marianito" had broken two "criminal" records.
The first, messing with the family of the person with whom he had a problem.
The second, showing a weapon and threatening someone during the day.
The neighborhood law says that such acts are done at night, when most of the neighbors who have nothing to do with the issue are in their apartments.
Fans of the Doque on one side and San Telmo on the other.
An ingredient that usually warms up the climate.
Photo Marcelo Carroll
"The kid got drunk. He called his best friend (by Amarilla) and they went to Tower 5", details the contact, who for obvious reasons prefers not to reveal his identity.
Hernán and Iván did something that they are not supposed to do: they entered Tower 5. The neighborhood is divided: in towers 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 10, that is, the ones that face the highway, fans of Dock Sud. And in the rest, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 11, which face Avellaneda avenue, San Telmo fans gather.
The teams, classics of promotion football, influence the dispute.
Although they are not determinative.
At least in this fight.
"This is a reckoning"
, defines another person who knows the story and talks to
Clarín
.
In the towers there are kids who can cross the rival territory.
And others, like the three protagonists of the story, no.
Actually, they can.
But they know that doing so will have consequences.
Although this time, if Hernán and Iván did not do what they were about to do, the consequences would be on their own side.
Las Torres are on one side of the Buenos Aires-La Plata highway.
Photo Marcelo Carroll
Already on the inner side of Tower 5, always at noon on Thursday, they begin to look for "Marianito" in the shops.
They apparently find him coming out of a greengrocer.
It is believed that he was not armed, and ran.
His rivals triggered.
Some witnesses calculate between five and six times.
The concrete thing is that one comes to the head of
Lola Jazmín Montero, five months old.
He was in the arms of his mother, Carolina, who was shopping at a bakery.
That same noon, the residents of Tower 5 got together and went at 3. They entered and destroyed everything they found.
They broke shops, beat people and set Garcia's motorcycle on fire.
Despite this, the rest of the neighborhood points to "Marianito" as the culprit for what happened.
They know that if he hadn't gone to attack Garcia's family business, no one would have entered Tower 5.
Even "Marianito", who is called Mariano D'Acosta, is 28 years old and has been admitted to the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service jails for two hours. He would go to offer an apology to a part of Lola's family, hours before his arrest.
The baby's remains were inhumane this Saturday morning.
The funeral procession left at 11 am, towards the Avellaneda cemetery.
The municipality's DDI and Police Station 3 arrested the three protagonists of the story.
On Friday they were investigated by prosecutors Elbio Laborde and Solange Cáceres, from UFI 3 in Avellaneda.
They refused to testify.
They are charged with
"aggravated murder by the use of a firearm
.
"
García and Amarilla are also charged with "illegal possession of a weapon."
Lola Jazmín Montero, the 5-month-old baby who was killed in the middle of a shooting in Dock Sud.
In a neighborhood full of disputes, the differences between Towers 3 and 5 are the bloodiest in the Complex.
Those who know the universe say that the pike is historical.
Decades.
But that there is a previous fact that made the new litters maintain their rivalry.
Those who know the story tell of a certain "Yaca".
A neighbor from Tower 7, who had nothing to do with gangs.
The wanted victim was a member of the Tower 3 gang.
"Three kids killed him, friend. They were drugged, they mistook him for a kid they were looking for and hit him in the back," is what is told in the Complex.
There were no arrests for the murder.
And the neighborhood, acted with another of its logics.
Self-righteousness.
Over time, and in revenge, "Leíto" and "Nahuel", from Tower 5, were assassinated. The third man named for the death of "Yaca" (it is estimated that it was five years ago, approximately) had to leave the neighborhood. .
"These deaths are the root of the problem for the new generations of towers 5 and 3", is another of the testimonies, without identity details.
The last release of "Marianito" intensified the dispute.
He was released and the first thing he did was swear shots at Amarilla and García.
That upon hearing the rumor, they decided to arm themselves.
In the months leading up to 2020, they and their groups reportedly shot each other several times.
Both towers had gunshot wounds.
On Thursday, the victim was a person who could not defend himself.
Worse still, a baby that was in her mother's arms.
"That the media do not abandon us. Those responsible have already been arrested, but what we are going to ask is
that they no longer get out of jail
and it be known what really happened. My niece died from a problem outside her family circle. It was a crime and they have to pay for it, "said Fernando, Lola's uncle, after the last goodbye.
As if the impact of Lola's death weren't enough, a phrase resounds.
"The fight continues to surface ...", they warn, in case "Marianito" ever gets out of prison.
GL
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