03/04/2021 17:09
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 03/04/2021 17:53
There were two entrances in just 48 hours in the exclusive neighborhood of La Horqueta, in San Isidro.
The last of them, which occurred on Tuesday, was victimized by former army chief César Milani (66).
Investigators believe it was the same band that performed "on the air."
For Milani they were
"former members of the AFI."
The assault on the former head of the Army occurred in his house located at O'Higgins 3636, in that town located in the north of the Buenos Aires suburbs, on Tuesday at noon.
This is the same 1,150-square-meter property that Milani acquired in 2010 and for which he was prosecuted for "illicit enrichment."
The case was brought to trial in 2017.
At that time, at least five armed robbers got out of a gray Volkswagen Gol and entered the property, taking advantage of the fact that the gate was open for renovations.
The 1,150-square-meter house of the former Army chief, César Milani, located in the La Horqueta neighborhood, in San Isidro.
Photo Guillermo Rodríguez Adami.
Milani had gone out to the sidewalk to speak with the contractor in charge of the parts and inside the house were his wife, the domestic worker and six workers.
"The gate was open because they were doing repairs. Three or four people entered first, I just went out onto the sidewalk and one or two more appeared and they put us inside. They stayed for approximately 15 or 20 minutes, they
were all heavily armed, with important weapons
, 9 millimeters and 45, "the military man detailed, adding that the first thing he thought was that they wanted to kidnap him.
"It was not just any group, they were professionals, they acted as a kind of commando group; I
smell that behind this there are personnel from a security force
, possibly some security force that is in an anomalous situation or outside the force," he said. Milani in dialogue with the media who came to the door of his house.
However, judicial sources clarified that there is still no element to support this hypothesis and that everything indicates that it was a matter of "broadcast" insecurity.
César Milani, assaulted at his home in San Isidro.
Later, the former head of the Army said: "Now they add me a new piece of information, that apparently there would not only be former members of the Police of the Province, but former members of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) who have
already spied on me. in jail
. They spied on me, my family, my children, my wife, their phones. They bugged me to listen to my dialogues with my lawyers. When I was acquitted they spied on the court, all on the orders of (Silvia) Magdalani and (Gustavo) Arribas (responsible for the Federal Intelligence Agency during the government of Mauricio Macri). They spied on the court before, during and after the trial, "he said in dialogue with
Telefé Noticias
.
"One of the things that catches my attention is that they enter this house, where there are a lot of cameras and they know that they are not going to carry more than a few pesos, some watches. The way they entered, with the pistols down and without intimidating. A way of saying '
we are here
', "said Milani.
According to the complaint made later by the former military officer at the police station, the criminals took all the victims to the upper floor of the house, where they
locked them in a dressing room
while they seized money, valuables and two weapons from the former chief. of the Army: a Browning 9 millimeter pistol issued by that institution and a 40 caliber semi-automatic.
"They were 30 years old, 35 years old, rather short hair, they acted very naturally, it was not personal that they were drugged, or drunk, or out of their minds. They were totally calm, always with weapons out but down," described the former Army chief, who recalled that one of the robbers even carried a gun on his back.
The retired military man said that he had weapons but that he
preferred not to confront the thieves
for fear of hurting some of the people who were in his house.
"I could have made use of any of them but I didn't want to because my wife, the girl who works at home, the contractor and six workers were there. They were five armed men, if I had asked any question of wanting to use a weapon we would surely have had a personal misfortune, "he commented.
After completing the robbery, the five thieves escaped in a gray Volkswagen Gol that was later found abandoned in the area and they are investigating whether they had the support of a black Ford EcoSport truck.
Meanwhile, Milani, the wife and the employees managed to break the door of the dressing room and leave, after which they called the police and pressed the anti-panic button of the security company that they have hired for the house.
The case is being handled by Boulogne's prosecutor Paula Hertrig, who ordered various measures to try to identify the assailants.
Judicial sources indicated that although Milani suggested that there could be members of a security force, at the moment that is not proven and that they could be criminals who have already been acting in the area
"on the air
.
"
"They took advantage of the fact that the gate was open and saw the possibility to enter,"
one of the researchers
told
Télam
.
Although the car and the number of criminals do not coincide -two acted-, due to the modus operandi the prosecutor's office does not rule out that it is the same gang that last Sunday committed
another entry to a retired couple from La Horqueta
, where the victim woman ended up with a fractured septum.
César Milani at the time when the Court acquits him for crimes against humanity in 2019.
Milani assured that the Police have the images of the security cameras of his house and of the neighbors, in which all the movements of the criminals were recorded, and that the contractor also provided data with which two facial identikits were made. of two criminals.
"I take this opportunity to tell the police and provincial security authorities that they have all the elements, such as cars, patents and two identikits, to determine who was in my house," Milani said.
The judicial spokesmen recognized the existence of these videos from Milani's house - although they clarified that they are not of good quality -, from neighboring properties and the municipality, with which they try to reconstruct the route of the Gol used by the band and discover if they actually acted with some other support vehicle.
"The car was seen circulating near the Santa Rita village, in Boulogne, and
had an adulterated patent
. We are examining it in search of traces that allow us to identify some of the assailants," commented one of the sources consulted.
In some of these films it was possible to notice that one of the criminals
has a limp
due to some difficulty in his leg, one of the informants confided.
Along with the prosecutor, members of the Departmental Investigations Delegation (DDI) of San Isidro and the 9th police station in La Horqueta worked.
Milani was appointed by Cristina Kirchner as Chief of the Army General Staff in 2013 and was in charge until 2015. After his appointment, he was denounced for crimes against humanity during the last military dictatorship.
The case for the disappearance of the soldier Alberto Agapito Ledo was acquitted by the Justice, although the conscript's family demanded that the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation annul the “arbitrary” acquittal issued by the federal oral court of Tucumán and sentence him to 6 years in prison.
In October 2020, the Buenos Aires federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi dismissed him in a case for alleged illegal spying on opponents, initiated by a journalist.
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