Mariano Gaik Aldrovandi
04/03/2021 15:48
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 04/03/2021 16:13
Milagros Silva (21) went out to buy a soda for dinner in Morón.
Matildo Nieva Santos (57) was making a trip to Grand Bourg for an application.
Alejandro Jesús Sagripanti (44), a retired police officer, was driving his motorcycle through Burzaco to visit a friend.
María Daglio (56), a psychologist, spoke on a cell phone on the sidewalk with a patient, in Ramos Mejía.
Names and real lives in different daily situations in the Buenos Aires suburbs with the same end as tragic as absurd: dying from insecurity.
The first tranche of 2021 was not at all auspicious in an area that has been desperate for decades.
A review of the cases that gained public importance shows that between January and March there were
70% more deaths due to robbery
than in the same period a year ago.
Alejandro Sagripanti, a retired city police officer who was killed by motorcycle jets in Burzaco.
In the first three months, 53 people died in acts of insecurity in the Province of Buenos Aires.
They are 22 more than in the first quarter of 2020
, when they were 31. The figures include both victims and thieves.
The increase is 70%.
Although the survey may not be representative of the number of criminal acts that exist every day in Buenos Aires territory and do not have a fatal outcome, a priori it shows that insecurity is growing and is increasingly violent.
The cases represent
a robbery that ended in death every 40 hours during the first quarter.
In all of 2020 there was one every 56 hours.
Of course, last year's figures are altered by the effect of the mandatory quarantine due to the coronavirus, when the little movement in the streets led to fewer crimes.
The social psychologist María Daglio (56), with her four children and her two grandchildren.
Of the 53 events, 60 percent correspond to robbery victims (32) and 30% to thieves (20).
Clarín
collated the data with judicial sources, who indicated that so far 30 fatalities have been counted for homicides on the occasion of robbery.
They had no record of the number of deceased assailants.
Month to month
The survey carried out by
Clarín
based on journalistic publications showed that
in January there were 18 acts of insecurity that ended in death
, five more than the same month last year.
One of the most shocking was that of Joel Alexis Quinteros (25), father of a 5-year-old boy and an employee of Fate, murdered on January 28 in Pablo Nogués, a Malvinas Argentinas party.
The case combines elements that frequently appear in robberies in the suburbs: cell phone, bus stop, motorcycle jets.
Joel Alexis Quinteros (25) was 25 years old and was killed in an assault when he was waiting for the van to go to work at Pablo Nogués.
In September the Government announced
the construction of 4,000 safe stops
in the Province with Wi-Fi, security cameras, an anti-panic button, among other accessories, for an amount of 3.7 billion pesos.
They haven't installed any yet.
February left 17 homicides during robberies in Buenos Aires territory, ten more than in 2020.
The first ten days were particularly violent, with thirteen cases.
One of the most remembered is the one that was victimized by Marcos Ignacio Mendoza (18), murdered during an entrance to his house in Ezpeleta, Quilmes district.
The boy tried to defend his family from three thieves who surprised them when they entered the garage.
They shot him in the chest and fled.
The
entrance
modality
is one of the most characteristic of the Conurbano.
They almost always occur at night, when the victims come home and put the car away.
Last year, according to the Complaints Information System of the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security, there were
6,140 cases throughout the year, that is, one every one and a half hours.
Marcos Ignacio Mendoza Arnez with his godmother.
The young man was 18 years old and he was murdered by three bullets in a robbery.
In addition to the assault in which Marcos Mendoza died, in February there were two other fatal entrances, which happened on the same day and in Merlo.
In those episodes, Gabriel Omar Medina (45) and Carmen López de Vargas (61) were killed.
In March there was also a strong increase in deaths due to insecurity.
18 facts against 11 from a year ago.
It should be clarified that the Preventive and Mandatory Social Isolation (ASPO) was decreed on March 20, so in this case the comparison of one month and another is conditional.
Released by covid
That of María Rosa Daglio was one of the most shocking crimes due to the circumstances in which it occurred: a motorcycle attack in Ramos Mejía, La Matanza party, starring a thief who was released by the coronavirus and should be imprisoned.
Alejandro Miguel Ochoa (55) had been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison
in 2017 for two robberies of women under the motochorro modality in Mar del Plata.
They released him on April 30 of last year with the excuse of the pandemic.
In October Ochoa stole again and they arrested him but, unusually, he gave the police a false identity and they released him.
When they realized who he was, they could not locate him and he had a warrant for his arrest since November.
On March 19, Ochoa reappeared in Belgrano at 300 de Ramos Mejía, pulled at Daglio's wallet, who was talking on a cell phone on the sidewalk, and dragged her across the floor.
It caused him to fracture his ribs and injure his spleen.
An internal hemorrhage would end up causing death.
Ochoa was arrested in a house in Castelar, Morón district, where the motorcycle that appears in the video of the robbery was also located.
Mirta Barcia (64) was shot to death during a robbery at the door of her home in Cañuelas.
She was a municipal employee and a folklore teacher.
A history of a release from prison for the coronavirus that led to death is that of Juan Corvalán (30), the thief who killed Mirta Barcia (64), a municipal employee of Cañuelas, on September 8 of last year.
The victim, who was also a folklore teacher, was surprised when she was saying goodbye to a friend at the door of her house, around 10 p.m. At that moment, two thieves appeared and stole her cell phone.
The woman tried to defend herself and, as they escaped,
Corvalán shot her twice.
The image of the suspects was recorded by security cameras and three days later they were arrested.
As
Clarín
revealed
in a report on March 26, in the Province of Buenos Aires there are 168 prisoners released by the Violini ruling who do not know where they are and appear when they are detained for repeating the crime.
As for the municipalities where the events occurred, the one that suffered the most from insecurity was La Matanza, with 16 cases, followed by Moreno, with 7;
Quilmes, 5;
Merlo, 4;
Almirante Brown and Malvinas Argentinas, 3;
Morón, Pilar and José C. Paz, 2;
and Avellaneda, Berazategui, General Pueyrredon, La Plata, Lanús, Lomas de Zamora, Presidente Perón, San Martín and San Miguel 1.
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Deaths due to insecurity in 2021
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