03/21/2021 11:06 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 03/21/2021 11:06 AM
Two seriously injured was the result of a fierce shooting attack on a house in the Florida neighborhood, in Rosario.
The shots hit
a two-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man,
who are hospitalized.
Everything happened at the intersection of
Agüero and Maestro Massa
streets
(Agüero to 4300), in the north of Rosario.
There, for reasons that are being investigated,
unknown persons arrived on a motorcycle and began shooting towards the front of a home
with the consequence of two wounded who were walking through the place.
The baby was transferred urgently with a gunshot wound to the right hemithorax
, as confirmed by the director of
the Children's Hospital "Víctor J. Vilela"
, Viviana Esquivel, who explained that although the child was lucid, he underwent surgery to extract him. the projectile.
Meanwhile,
the 35-year-old man was transferred to the Eva Perón de Granadero Baigorria hospital
.
Both are hospitalized with a reserved prognosis.
According to the preliminary police report,
15 heavy-caliber pods
and traces of blood
were found at the scene
.
The shooting was carried out in the block where Olga Beatriz “La Tata” Medina resides, convicted of "drug dealing."
The act of violence is added to that which occurred last week with another similar attack in the Triángulo neighborhood of Rosario, which left four dead.
The escalation of violence in Rosario does not stop:
49 crimes so far this year
.
For the prosecutor Marisol Fabbro, three out of every four episodes that the Homicide Unit of the Public Prosecutor's Office (MPA) works
are linked to the drug business
and the territorial disputes that different gangs star.
The brutal attack occurred after the arrival of another
300 agents from the Naval Prefecture and the Federal Police
who joined the patrol in the center of Rosario.
However, the bloodiest and most recurrent episodes occur in the neighborhoods.
There were previously 3,400 federal troops in the province.
And at the end of 2019 there were 1,900.
The drug trafficking problem settled in Rosario a couple of decades ago, but it surfaced more harshly
in 2013
.
That year the dispute between gangs was exposed and
271 crimes
were registered
.
Among other emblematic events, Claudio “Pájaro” Cantero, leader of the “Los Monos” group, was assassinated.
Although some organizations were disrupted and their leaders were arrested, and the number of murders was even lowered, the situation has not been reversed.
The shootings and attacks are daily.
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