02/24/2021 10:43 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/24/2021 10:51 AM
A brutal femicide shakes the Neuquén city of Villa La Angostura: a 20-year-old girl died after being stabbed by her ex-partner in the center and
before the astonished gaze of neighbors and tourists
.
The attacker was hospitalized after he attempted suicide.
One of the many people who witnessed the horror committed by Juan Bautista Quintriqueo, 33, recounted: “We were with my family riding in the car on the avenue.
When we turn at the ACA as for the Plaza de los Pioneros, we see that a girl comes running screaming for help, a
man with a huge knife was chasing her
behind
”.
The victim ran through the service station, crossed the avenue and began to climb the stairs of Plaza San Martín.
"The girl ran desperately, they looked tired, as if they were running from the square," added the woman, who along with the rest of the people present began to shout for help, but the man reached the young woman and
stabbed her in full view of all
.
Neighbors demanded justice for the murder of Guadalupe Curual.
Photo Daniel Osovnikar - El Tren radio program, Fm Los Lagos.
“The guy
stuck the knife in the middle of the sternum
, it was terrible.
The girl was still.
The guy was threatening with the knife those who tried to stop him, "said the witness, still shocked by what she saw.
The woman and her family went to notify the police and the femicide ran across the Paseo de los Artesanos.
Several people tried to stop him, even a tourist threw a stone at him.
In the flight he also
wounded another man
and then tried to kill himself with the knife, but they managed to avoid it.
After detaining him, he was admitted to the City Hospital.
After the event, some neighbors convened themselves in front of police station 28 to demand justice for Guadalupe.
Other witnesses told local media that apparently a female police officer from Zapala who was in civilian clothes walking with her family through Villa La Angostura, had a gun, took it out and warned the subject to
throw himself on the floor or shoot
.
The Security Director of the South Zone, Inspector Commissioner Daniel Castillo, in dialogue with LU5, confirmed that the victim had previously denounced her attacker and that a
restriction of approach
fell upon him
.
Castillo confirmed that the man had waited for her when she got out of the car in which she was traveling with her little daughter, chased her in the downtown area of the town and that "
the minor was left alone
because at the beginning of the attack, the girl, who he got off the road, he had to flee to try to escape the aggressor. "
The assassination of Guadalupe Curual motivated a mobilization to demand justice.
Photo Daniel Osovnikar, El Tren radio program, Fm Los Lagos.
According to the commissioner, the incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. and was witnessed by a large number of witnesses.
The operator alerted the units that "a man ran with a knife at a woman."
The attack was carried out on Arrayanes and Nahuel Huapi streets.
Two police officers who were out of work hours ran to the femicide and managed to reach him in the area of Paseo de los Artesanos.
There, when he was surrounded, the attacker tried to injure himself while throwing insults and telling what he had done.
Health personnel tried to revive Guadalupe, but it was not possible.
The injury to the chest was fatal.
The femicide is admitted to the hospital with a superficial injury to his neck and other cuts to his chest, which he caused himself.
The victim's daughter was left in the custody of her maternal grandparents.
Relatives, friends and neighbors gathered last night in front of police station 28 and called a
march for 10 in the morning this Wednesday
to demand justice for Guadalupe.
The case is in the hands of the Prosecutor Adrián De Lillo, of the Multi-Law Court of Villa la Angostura.
LGP
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