03/21/2021 19:05
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 03/21/2021 19:05
The confrontation was filmed by the images of the security cameras of the hospital and by neighbors who used their cell phones to record the stones and the shots.
It is not clear what happened between the inhabitants of Villa Melo and the Buenos Aires agents this Saturday night, around 10:30 p.m.
The truth is that José Luis González (33), a bricklayer from the neighborhood, is dead: he received three police bullets.
The situation got out of control from one moment to the next and the versions are crossed.
According to judicial sources, the assistant officer Juan Maximiliano Barrionuevo Núñez (31) was inside the Manuel Belgrano General Provincial Hospital, in San Andrés, San Martín district, by court order: he had to verify the state of health of an injured person.
"At that moment, when the police were with the family of the other wounded man, who had nothing to do with what would happen next, they heard a noise in the street and they all ran out to see what happened. According to witnesses, they found a young man breaking the glass of a vehicle, of the relative of another patient. The officer asked for support and detained him. That person is apprehended and tomorrow (Monday) he will be investigated for the theft ", indicated sources of the case consulted by
Clarín
.
That arrest was the tip of the ball of the conflict that ended the life of Luis and the eyes set on the agents who intervened in the operation.
The residents of Villa Melo, Constituyentes and Barrio Santa Rosa knew the young detainee.
They reported that the policeman began to beat him while he was handcuffed.
That is why, they say, they reacted.
"I was at the kiosk, where I work. I heard banging noises and saw that they were breaking down a car. Several young people ran out of the hospital to confront this person. A while later, plainclothes police arrived, reduced him and beat him. a group approached to ask them not to abuse themselves and one of the
gray-haired men
began to incite, to say that he was the owner of the street, that he commanded and '
go all out, we're going to kill you all,'
"said Julia Navarro ( 32), Luis's wife.
Sources agree that the riots began just after that and that the fatal victim had not arrived at the scene until the clashes between police and neighbors began.
The pain of Luis González's family.
Photo: Federico Imas.
It is at this point that the versions fork.
"Luis was an excellent person, a very good neighbor. He
was not a criminal nor did he want to steal
anything as they wanted to say at first. They said he had a knife but he did not stab anyone, he was a working man, a laborer like all of us" complained one of the relatives, who denounced that it was "easy trigger".
However, the investigators point to a homicide within the framework of legitimate defense.
"The man had a knife and began to run at the agent. Eyewitnesses indicated that the policeman, who was dressed in civilian clothes, tried to escape, stumbled and lost the regulation weapon. The one who was chasing him with the knife
jumped at him and started to stab him
", described judicial sources.
In addition, they detailed: "At that moment a policeman intervenes who was doing additional custody in the hospital, whom they had summoned for the arrest, and tries to separate them. As he could not, he fired twice. At that same moment, the officer who was on the ground, he managed to retrieve his weapon and also fired. "
The fight was filmed by surveillance cameras but the knife or stabbing cannot be seen.
In principle, while waiting for the result of the autopsy, they counted three impacts on González's body.
"One of the shots was at shoulder height, another in the thorax and the third in the costal area," said
Télam
.
Police and neighbors who knew the man managed to admit him to the hospital, but could not do anything to save his life.
He died on the spot.
The man
had four children between the ages of 4 and 16
, lived with his wife and had a shop right in front of the hospital, which is why he was able to see the entire sequence of the riots.
The investigation, titled "
homicide, injuries and resistance to authority
", was left in the hands of the prosecutor Gabriela Disnan, of the UFI N ° 5 of San Martín.
This Monday, Ariel Barrera, who is at liberty, will investigate the police, as well as Barrionuevo Núñez, who was assisted for "defensive wounds in the arms and cuts in the legs" but was discharged.
The bullet holes in front of the Manuel Belgrano hospital.
Photo: Federico Imas.
The Justice derived the investigation in federal forces and points to the hypothesis of legitimate defense.
Meanwhile, Luis's family demands justice.
David González, nephew of the deceased man, told
Clarín
: "
My uncle had a knife but he didn't use it, he didn't hurt him, he didn't even have blood
. That stabbing is an invention. They said it to justify what they had done. No he was a criminal, he was a calm and hard-working person, that's why no one falls for what happened. "
In addition, he was once again outraged by the first versions that pointed against his uncle: "They wanted to say that he was a thief, that he had stolen, after he wanted to defend the jet so that it escaped and that is all a lie. He lived between Santa Rosa and Melo, about Constituents, is not even Melo's. He had his business, he made barbecues to sell and worked as a bricklayer, everyone knows him and they know how he is, that's why the impotence was so great. We want there to be real justice. "
EMJ