11/09/2020 12:45
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 11/09/2020 12:45
An Argentine, living in Brazil for two years,
was murdered in the northern city of Preá
in the neighboring country, after having an argument with another person during a party.
After the event, which occurred last week, the family asks for justice and help to pay for the mother's trip and funeral expenses.
According to the reports that reached the family,
Rodrigo Manuel Duartes (33)
, known as "El Bocha", was apparently beaten with a stick that caused severe head trauma.
Due to that injury, Duartes was admitted to intensive care, unconscious and in a coma, in a hospital in the city of Sobral, and after surgery, he died on Saturday.
The incident would have occurred last Tuesday after a discussion in a bar where Rodrigo attended.
"On Tuesday he went to a party for the construction manager where he worked and they told us that he was beaten, he was in serious condition, he had an argument and
apparently outside the place they were waiting for him and they hit him on the head
. He had a head injury," he said. Nicolás, Rodrigo's friend, in dialogue with
El Doce TV
de Córdoba.
Rodrigo Duartes and his mother, on one of their trips together in Brazil.
Duartes, like his family, was a native of the Los Olmos Sur neighborhood in Córdoba.
Two years had passed since Rodrigo moved to Preá, some 280 kilometers from Fortaleza, to work in construction.
According to Nicolás, "Rodrigo was hospitalized until Saturday, when he died."
The mother, who had traveled urgently before the hospitalization of her son,
learned of the death of the young man on one of the stopovers.
"Rodrigo was an adventurer, he went to Brazil 2 years ago in search of a new direction and settled 300 km from Fortaleza. He traveled alone and was working, very happy. The outcome is what we know. We are waiting for the results of the investigation, "said Nicolás.
He also said that from Brazil they informed the mother by phone
"that they were going to disconnect him"
and that when he found out about it, the woman broke down.
And he revealed that thanks to the intervention of the Consul of Recife "they finally operated on him, they put a catheter on him to drain the fluid from his head and the clots."
"Unfortunately the Bocha did not hold.
They assassinated him
", said his friend, distraught by the loss.
The record with the statement from the hospital where Rodrigo Duartes was admitted.
Regarding the role that Duartes fulfilled in the fishing village of Preá, a neighbor of the family and friend of Rodrigo's mother said that he "was working with a carpenter", that "he was fine there" and that "he was very loved in the zone".
The woman said that last year they went with the mother to visit him for two months.
According to his friends, Rodrigo will be fired in an intimate ceremony in the place he had chosen to live in Brazil and his body
will not be repatriated
.
"The mother found out when she got there that Rodrigo was happy and that his home was there, so his mother asked us for forgiveness and decided that he should stay," said Nicolás.
The family, meanwhile, opened a bank account to raise money and pay for the trip of the mother, who is a retired nurse, and a companion and funeral expenses abroad.
Donations are received at the CBU 0200931911154912, according to the newspaper
La Voz
del Interior.
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