02/24/2021 4:16 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 02/24/2021 4:16 PM
First the screams were heard and in seconds the desperate image of Guadalupe appeared in the dramatic scene.
Running, escaping from her daughter's father, her ex-partner, her femicide.
Everything happened in a couple of minutes, before the gaze of neighbors and tourists in the heart of Villa La Angostura.
Guadalupe Curual (20) parked his car in front of the fire station, on Las Rasmbuesas street, with the intention of going to the Banco Provincia de Neuquén ATM, located meters away, on Nahuel Huapi boulevard.
He got out and put his baby in the chair in the back seat.
Guadalupe Curual was 20 years old, a one-year-old baby and worked in a bakery.
On leaving, he met Bautista Quintriqueo (33), the father of his 1-year-old daughter, the same one with whom the problems, threats, and complaints had already occurred.
The last 48 hours had definitely been complex, with concrete and direct threats:
"You are mine or nobody's,"
he said.
Guadalupe began to run, perhaps looking for a more crowded place, where the presence of people could perhaps appease the murderer's madness and, at the same time, ward off the danger of her little daughter.
It was less than 100 meters of despair, the screams and the sequence were not enough for someone to help Guadalupe.
Quintriqueo reached it by arriving at the YPF of the ACA, a characteristic point of the city.
She sought to continue her career through the Plaza San Martín, but when she had barely climbed a couple of its high steps, the attacker caught up with her and when she was faced with
her, he killed her with a single
, accurate, lethal
stab
in the chest.
Guadalupe remained there, mortally wounded.
A couple of police officers, who were frankly on duty but were carrying the regulation weapons, called out.
Quintriqueo paid no attention and began his flight. He made half a block, on Siete Lagos Avenue, which leads to the bus station, and there he was finally arrested by the police.
He resisted, struggled and wounded one of them with the knife that had murdered Guadalupe.
He even tried to injure himself, perhaps
with the intention of committing suicide.
The Public Prosecutor's Office, together with police officers, will do a reconstruction of the persecution and femicide in these hours.
The Operational Coordinator of the Internal Security Directorate, based in Junín de los Andes, Commissioner Daniel Castillo, reported that "an ocular inspection and reconstruction of the events will be carried out together with the prosecutors through drones to make a survey of what happened. ".
She revealed that "she parked her vehicle in front of the Fire Brigade, went to the bank's ATM to withdraw money and as she returned to the vehicle she was approached by the man who had a knife and that is why she runs to the YPF service station of the Automobile Club Argentino (ACA) ".
Juan Bautista Quintriqueo, 33, already had three complaints of violence.
Castillo indicated that "this girl had made several complaints of violence and police personnel were accompanied when she twice withdrew her belongings from the home she shared with her former partner."
He also said that "there were rounds of police personnel and every time she requested it, she was accompanied."
Haunted and threatened
"In the last 48 hours he intimidated her by WhatsApp messages and calls" and told her that "he was going to kill her," explained Valeria Navarro, sister of a friend with whom Guadalupe and her baby lived, when referring to the accused Bautista Quintriqueo.
Valeria's sister had been a friend of Guadalupe for several years, and for four months she had been taking care of the young woman's baby.
The woman assured that her sister
proposed to Guadalupe to go live with her
due to the repeated threats and harassment she suffered from Quintriqueo.
"The murderer was in Villa Traful - 80 kilometers from Villa La Angostura - and he told her that when he returned he was going to kill her, that if it was not his, it would not belong to anyone," he said.
"It was tremendous, he cut her throat in the heart of Villa La Angostura," he
emphasized.
As expressed, Guadalupe and Quintriqueo were a couple until a month ago she decided to separate due to the violence that the man exerted on her.
"Since he separated, he did not stop harassing her. He had six complaints of threats and one perimeter," Navarro said.
Finally, the woman affirmed that "the bureaucracy of the system leaves us without Guadalupe and one woman less every 24 hours. The struggle continues and the memory of 'Guada' will be honored in each mobilization to demand justice."
GL
In the last ten years in Argentina there is an average of one femicide every 30 hours.
According to statistics from the Office of Domestic Violence of the Supreme Court, in 2018 alone there were 278. Most murders occur in the homes of victims and are committed by partners or exes.
Where to call
Line 144
Care for women in situations of violence.
Line 137
Attention to Victims of Family Violence.
911 Emergencies
Look also
Femicide in Villa La Angostura: "He told her that he was going to kill her and whoever was accompanying her"
Femicide in Villa La Angostura: Guadalupe had denounced the murderer three times in the last year and a half