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Femicide in Ostend: they suspect that her partner hit her and drove her over with her truck

2020-06-02T23:27:09.857Z


She had denounced him last November at the Women's Police Station but, due to the pandemic, they lived together.


06/01/2020 - 19:10

  • Clarín.com
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Despite the coronavirus quarantine, two couples had decided to meet on Sunday at noon in Ostend . By midnight they were still together, but the weather was no longer so good. And Maria left after an argument. His partner came out behind and  then his body appeared,  lying on the street.

Sources of the investigation reconstructed for Clarín what the last hours of María Mamani Condorí, a 42-year-old Bolivian who lived in Ostende, a party in Pinamar, with her family were like.

And also why the suspicions about the authorship of the femicide fall on the couple of María, and father of their three children, Martín Edmundo Cruz Torres (45) .

Femicide in Ostend. The victim was 42 years old and her partner was arrested for the crime. They suspect it went over the top with the car. (Facebook)

Cruz Torres was arrested and will be investigated this Tuesday by the prosecutor of the case, Juan Pablo Calderón. Expertise on his gray Chevrolet Montana truck was key. "The suspicion was that he was run over and not exactly by accident," sources said.

And they detailed that "there are traces of the filler material from María's jacket on one of the fenders of the car and also blood stains on the rear wheel," as part of the evidence against Cruz Torres.

Maria's body appeared this Monday morning, around 2.30, lying on Prague Street, a few meters from Chapeaurouge Avenue. There were indications that she had been hit and run over by a vehicle that escaped.

After raiding two Ostende properties linked to Cruz Torres, the Police found the cell phone of "María kept in a pocket of his vest, at his home". Also the suspect's cell phone and another unarmed phone, hidden behind tiles and in a nylon bag. And some marijuana .

In one of those properties, the gray Chevrolet Montana truck was found, which was appraised by the Scientific Police and where "traces were found that this vehicle had been linked to María's crime ."

A Renault Sandero was also hijacked. While, the result of the autopsy is awaited to the body of Maria to know how was the mechanics of death .

Femicide in Ostend. The van of the accused of the crime of his wife. (Facebook)

For now, the prosecutor Calderón will shortly raise the request to the Justice of Guarantees to formalize the arrest of Cruz Torres for the femicide of his wife.

In November of last year, she had denounced him at the Women's Police Station. According to sources, "it was due to psychological violence" although the file of the Justice of the Peace awaiting the case for more data is awaited.

Yes it is known that the restriction of approach that weighed on Cruz Torres for 180 days from the start of the cause was automatically renewed, in the face of the pandemic , they expanded. 

"Despite the restriction, the couple lived together due to the pandemic . They have two children of legal age and one younger. The oldest did not refer to the father mistreating the mother," the sources concluded.

Source: clarin

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