The
parish priest
of the Nuestra Señora de los Trabajadores church, in the town of Villa Caraza,
prevented a femicide in full mass
, when after taking communion a man tried to stab his ex-partner with a cleaver.
Oscar Eduardo Casagrande, 63, attended the religious ceremony and took the seats farthest from the altar, waiting for his opportunity to attack Dolores Rolón (60), with whom he had a romantic relationship.
At the culminating moment of the mass, that of the Eucharist, Casagrande joined the line, received communion and, far from lending himself to the usual moment of recollection and prayer,
he took out of a bag the knife he uses in his butcher shop and tried to stab Rolón
.
Oscar Casagrande tried to stab his ex-partner in full mass
Quick reflexes,
the priest Adrián Marzilli stood between the attacker and the victim to prevent the murder
, while the other faithful managed to disarm the attacker, who was later arrested and taken to the 5th police station.
of Lanús.
The woman had already denounced her ex-partner
, so she had an anti-panic button.
She also had a perimeter restriction on Casagrande for a while, but she had won because Rolón did not renew the request.
The meat cleaver used by Casagrande
"This was a tremendous case and if it had not been for the intervention of the priest and the neighbors who were at mass today we would be talking about another femicide in the country," said Diego Kravetz, Lanús' chief of staff and security secretary.
The case was in charge of the Functional Instruction Unit number 8, specialized in family and/or gender violence, of the Avellaneda-Lanús Judicial Department, in charge of María Soledad Garibaldi.
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