Roxana Badaloni
06/28/2021 8:43 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 06/28/2021 8:46 PM
The Mendoza Justice advanced in the investigation of the crime of
Franco (28) and Kevin Álvarez (18)
and detained
four suspects
.
This Monday it was confirmed that the two bodies found yesterday belonged to the brothers who had disappeared on June 7 after withdrawing the charge for a job.
Forensic examinations determined that they suffered a
violent death.
All elements suggest that could be a
settling of accounts
relating to the last place where they worked as bricklayers.
According to reports, the youths were beaten and shot in the head.
One of the detainees is the
man for whom the brothers worked
in the town of Los Corralitos, in Guaymallén.
It was the same person who was collected on June 7 for the money committed for a masonry job.
Lidia Freites, the mother of the Alvarez brothers, filed the complaint after the disappearance Photo: Mariana Villa / Los Andes
Franco and Kevin Álvarez left their home at noon and, according to the investigation, they
withdrew the charge
.
Then they disappeared.
The other detainees are:
two workers
who worked on the same construction site as the brothers and
a neighbor
who acted as an intermediary to get them work.
It is not yet clear what responsibility investigators attribute to each of the suspects.
Neither is the motive for the double crime.
But it was determined that the eldest of the brothers, Franco, had
a dispute
with one of the detainees for the
consumption and sale of drugs
.
Franco Jesús (28) and Kevin Álvarez (18), the brothers who were murdered in Mendoza.
Photo Social Networks.
This information was obtained from the
expert opinion of their cell phone,
which, curiously, had not been on the day they disappeared.
He had left the phone at his house, where they both lived with his mother.
The woman suffers from an illness and the children worked to support the home and their medical treatment.
For 20 days no more was heard from the brothers.
This Sunday afternoon, a neighbor called 911 and alerted that
there was a body floating
in a drain of a Rodeo del Medio canal, in the municipality of Maipú.
When the police arrived, they confirmed that there were two bodies.
Due to the advanced state of decomposition of the bodies, Justice had to carry out a DNA test to determine their identity.
In less than 24 hours, the Genetic Data Laboratory of the Mendoza Judicial Branch confirmed that they were Franco and Kevin.
The place where a cell phone and Kevin's ID had been found Photo: Mariana Villa / Los Andes
On the night of his disappearance, at 9:30 p.m., one of the brothers wrote to his mother on WhatsApp and told her that they still would not return home because they were waiting to be paid.
About 17 minutes after that call, one of the brothers got on the phone for the last time.
The investigation revealed
a series of messages threatening one of them
.
The mother of the young men filed a complaint with Prosecutor 16 for finding their whereabouts and then, as a result of testimonies about alleged threats against one of the brothers, went to the Homicide Division.
Ten days later, a cell phone and Kevin's ID were found lying in an alley in Rodeo del Medio, a few kilometers from where the bodies were found.
The bodies were found on Sunday in an area of Rodeo del Medio, Maipú.
Photo: José Gutierrez / Los Andes
Prosecutor Andrea Lazo, who worked on the search, ordered several searches that included the last place where they went to collect the money.
The sniffer dogs marked
two refrigerators at the suspect's home
as possible evidence
, but as the bodies had not yet been found at that time there were no arrests.
The greatest expectation was on Luciano Álvarez's phone since the latest movements of the missing brothers could emerge.
However, the technological experts could not recover any data: the equipment was destroyed.
The brothers lived in Maipú, the same municipality where the bodies were found, but in another nearby town called Colonia Bombal, five kilometers away.
According to the newspaper El Sol, forensic experts determined that the brothers
were beaten and then riddled with bullets
in the head with a 22-caliber revolver.
In the next few hours, the prosecutor Lazo will have to determine what degree of responsibility the detainees have in the double crime.
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