07/11/2021 7:13 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 07/11/2021 7:16 PM
Alejandro Salaverry (40) spent 16 years on the run after the crime of a policeman in 2003 in Mar del Plata.
When
the cause expired
, he appeared before the Justice and left the courts free of guilt and charge.
This Sunday
they arrested him
when he went to get vaccinated for Covid-19: he had a request for capture from the Justice of Morón for an attempted murder.
Salaverry's arrest occurred at the Mar Museum this noon and had nothing to do with the crime of
Cristian Agusti
, a 28-year-old police officer from the Mar del Plata DDI who was
shot to death
in 2003, for whom he spent not a day in prison. .
Salaverry's arrest when he went to apply the coronavirus vaccine occurred because a warrant for his arrest weighed on him for being charged with
"attempted homicide and injuries"
in 2018, according to
Clarín
.
Thus they arrested Alejandro Salaverry.
"It happened in Merlo, when Salaverry had problems with a neighbor and made several blows to the head
with a machete
, causing deep cuts, a skull fissure; he was hospitalized in serious condition," explained the sources consulted.
The case is processed in the prosecutor's office N ° 5 of Morón, in charge of the prosecutor Claudio Oviedo, and in the next few hours Salaverry will be transferred to be
investigated
.
The
agents of the DDI of Mar del Plata
, the same division where Agusti worked,
captured him
after they could determine that "he had a turn to get vaccinated this Sunday at 11 am at the Museum of the Sea," the sources said.
They let him get vaccinated and arrested him.
Thus, an operation was mounted in the museum and its surroundings.
"There were
police dressed as nurses
and also pretending in line to have a turn to get vaccinated," they added.
They just waited for him to sit down to stop him.
Prescribed cause
On July 10, 2019 Salaverry entered the courts of Mar del Plata.
For 16 years the Police, the Justice and even Agusti's mother, Graciela, had been looking for him.
That day, with the case against him prescribed, Salaverry managed to be dismissed by the Justice and left as a free man.
They compared his face at the time of the crime to a computerized projection.
"I took a deep breath and began to go up, floor by floor, looking for him," she told
Clarín
Graciela Panebianco, mother
Agusti at that time, after someone notified her that Salaverry had appeared and she herself went to court.
"I did not lose hope of finding him, but
I came to think of him dead,
being a criminal that could have happened. Or with another figure, without tattoos and with another face after surgery," said Graciela two years ago.
When that July 10, 2019, Graciela reached the same floor where her son's murderer was, she found him.
He had "the same face as when he ran away,"
the woman would say.
And he would say that when he had it, "just there, 25 centimeters away", he came out to greet him, as an irony:
"Hello Ale"
.
Cristian Agusti, murdered in October 2003.
Now free, after having signed his dismissal to a Court of Guarantees;
Salaverry replied,
"Hello."
And he left
.
The crime
In October 2003 -almost 16 years before that icy meeting in court with the mother of his victim-
Salaverry and three accomplices
attacked a local on September 20-2900, near the DDI of Mar del Plata.
Agusti and his partner Cristian Fournier arrived at the scene of the robbery, after an alarm, when the thieves were leaving the premises.
The criminals
shot 11 times
.
A bullet wounded Fournier, who was saved, but three of those shots killed Graciela's son, who
had only recently been a father
.
Condemned
Two of Salaverry's accomplices,
Claudio López and Fernando Palomino
, armed with a 9-millimeter pistol and another .45 caliber, fell that same day, very close to the scene of the robbery.
In 2005 they were sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Salaverry and
Carlos Marcelo de los Santos
escaped.
The second fell in 2012, 9 years after Graciela traveled the country looking for the two fugitives.
One of Salaverry's accomplices, at the time of his arrest, a few blocks from where Agusti was killed.
De los Santos was caught
working as a waiter
in a Buenos Aires pizzeria and called himself Roberto Percia.
He was also convicted.
Now, Salaverry,
finally, will face Justice
, although it will not be for Agusti's crime.
DD
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