Nahuel Gallotta
06/03/2020 - 7:00
- Clarín.com
- Police
Now that many are locked up by the numerous confirmed cases of coronavirus in the neighborhood, some residents of Villa Itatí, Quilmes, bordering Villa Azul, remember the worst times of the other problem that many times made them lock up in their homes: the micro-trafficking of drugs.
Although it is not verified by Justice, everything would indicate that what happened, and happens, in the territory is a reflection of what happens in the town 1-11-14 . A part of the drug that is sold in Itatí would be the same that is sold in the Bajo Flores settlement. And the sales system, too.
The scenes were repeated in both places: lines of clients arriving from different points in the southern zone, vendors who attended houses where only drugs were sold (no one lived there) and soldiers, armed, who felt for the addicts while they were waiting to buy. This gang, which is not the only one that dominates part of the neighborhood, is made up of Peruvian criminals.
"The drug is still being seen. Before and after the quarantine. But the neighborhood has been quieter for two years ," says a neighbor.
The place where a drug bunker worked, which was later shot down by the Police, after a double crime. Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi.
As Clarín was able to reconstruct , in mid-2017 Miguel de Armas, an Argentine who was to be arrested two years later, was released. He was a neighbor of Glew, but he settled in Itatí for his partner and copied the territory. " Itatí is my town; here I am the one who sells drugs. I command! ", He would have shouted, armed, as the neighbors recall. And a few days later he called a group of Peruvians with whom he began selling cocaine and base paste. in the area called "La Chanchería." De Armas never lived in Itatí, he lived in a small convent in Congress and spent his days in the town, controlling his sector.
The story had its first turn in April 2018. In the middle of that month, the Buenos Aires Police raided and shot down one of the bunkers of the De Armas gang and the Peruvians. "They knocked down a narco bunker in Villa Itatí," some media published. But while the bulldozer leveled the property and the policemen took photos and showed what was allegedly kidnapped, he watched everything from a neighboring house. Like one more neighbor. Twenty-four hours later, they were still selling drugs. Just like before .
Relatives of Denise Sudera (29) and Magalí Otranto (28), killed by a Peruvian drug lord nicknamed "Ben 10". Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi.
On June 13 of that year, a Peruvian named "Ben 10" threatened two neighbors in the neighborhood. He accused them of selling drugs for the competition of de Armas: the Paraguayans. Also, of having denounced them with the Police. The threat was by audio: " The only thing I want is for that fucking whore to die. For a traitor. If they want to send the hat (by the Police), send it to them. Do what you want, now they are going to meet me ... they think I'm gil, right? Now they are going to see the shit I am ", says who would be" Ben 10 ".
Eight days later he kept his word : he entered the room of his victims and murdered Denise Sudera (29) and Magalí Otranto (28). The family of the victims clarified that they were not engaged in the sale of drugs.
It was not the only crime between the two gangs: previously, “Punchi”, a young man from the neighborhood, had been killed by three shots. He appeared tied to a fence, with a scarf around his neck. The version of the residents of Itatí is that he was assassinated by the Peruvians, accused of selling for the Paraguayans. Later there would be two more deaths. But because of a discussion between addicts.
"That double crime was a before and an after, " clarifies another neighbor. In the place where the bunker worked, and thirty meters away where Denise and Magalí were murdered, the Buenosairean installed a police sentry box. In addition squares were built and the neighborhood was illuminated more.
Judicial sources add that "in 2017 other homicides in the neighborhood had been clarified." And they say: "Those arrests had some effect at least in the short term. There has been no news of shocking cases in recent times."
In these investigations, eight members of the Córdoba family, a historical clan of the town, were arrested . At the beginning of 2019 "El Indio" fell, a rival of that family. Ten months later, his wife was arrested. He had an arrest warrant. They found her at the door of the Mayor of La Plata, wanting to enter to visit her partner.
Those factors, plus the arrests of Miguel de Armas and "Ben 10" (his name is Luis Gustavo Valderrama Pac and he had an international arrest warrant for another crime in Peru) were decisive: the Peruvian cell abandoned "La Chanchería" and moved to the Southeast Access area.
" They continue to sell drugs. But no longer as before : there are almost no more shootings, the customers are much less and now it is sold on the street. They take much more care of the police, who being in the neighborhood quickly reach any corridor in the villa ", details a neighbor.
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