Maria Laura Balonga
07/12/2021 18:07
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 07/12/2021 18:07
"
God did justice
."
Graciela waited almost 18 years to say those words, because
Justice did not do or will do justice
for the crime of her son, Cristian Agusti (28), a policeman murdered in 2003 in Mar del Plata.
His murderer was a fugitive for 16 years and ended up being
dismissed
when the cause prescribed.
Why then does Graciela Panebianco speak of
divine justice
?
Because Alejandro Salaverry (40), the man who killed Cristian and who waited for the cause
expire
To appear before the Mar del Plata Courts and leave free of guilt and charge, he was
arrested
this Sunday.
It fell, yes, but another fact.
Salaverry was arrested when he went to get vaccinated against the coronavirus at the Mar Museum: he had an arrest warrant from the Morón Justice for a
"attempted homicide and threats"
that occurred
in Parque San Martín in 2018.
"Many years waiting for this. He did not know that he was a fugitive from Morón's justice. Finally, after so long,
he is detained and my son rests in peace,
" Graciela Panebianco completed in dialogue with the
Télam
agency
.
Gone for this mother was that helplessness, that anger, that indignation and that sadness that she experienced two years ago.
On July 10, 2019, he
came across Salaverry
in the courts of Mar del Plata and
saw him walk away
without having purged even one day for Cristian's crime.
He had just signed his dismissal.
That day, the
news of this injustice
went through the media.
What Graciela did not know at the time is that this would be the
kick to catch her son's murderer
, according to
Clarín
from sources in the case.
It turns out that
Gladys
arrived at the Morón Prosecutor's Office No. 5 - from Prosecutors Claudio Oviedo and Marisa Monti-
.
There the complaint for the brutal attack suffered by her husband was being investigated.
The assailant, whom she knew as
Lucas
and who had been her neighbor, was at
large
.
Cristian Agusti, murdered in October 2003.
Gladys warned them
that this Salaverry
that the media was talking about, the one who had been dismissed in Mar del Plata,
was
Lucas
, the one who in 2018 in Parque San Martín left
her husband seriously injured
after attacking him with machetes to the head.
Oct 15, 2018
Gladys and her husband were neighbors of
Lucas
and his wife, who had a kiosk for 13 years in Parque San Martín, well to the west in the suburbs.
On October 15, 2018,
that bond was severed
.
This
Lucas man
not only threatened Gladys's husband twice but left him seriously injured after hitting him on the head with a machete.
The aggressor was swallowed up by the earth
.
History seemed to repeat itself.
After the complaint for "
threats and attempted homicide
" against this
Lucas
, the case fell to the Prosecutor's Office No. 5 of Morón.
They compared his face at the time of the crime to a computerized projection.
"We raided the house of the aggressor
and we found documentation, in the name of that
Lucas,
for which the
arrest warrant
was requested
,
"prosecutor Marisa Monti told
Clarín
.
At the end of 2018, a
traffic operation
stopped the march of a car.
When the driver provided his identity, he turned out to be the man wanted for the attempted murder of Gladys' husband,
this Lucas
.
"He
was a gendarme
whose
identity was used by the
aggressor
; and he had a warrant for his arrest and detention when
he had nothing to do with it,
" the prosecutor described.
The case
returned to zero
: who was then the man who had tried to kill Gladys's husband and who stole the identity of the gendarme
Lucas
?
Jul 10, 2019
That day
the news of the injustice
about the dismissal of Salaverry for the crime of the police officer Cristian Agusti reached Gladys.
They let him get vaccinated and arrested him.
The woman
saw the photo in the media and recognized him
immediately: it was her former neighbor, that man who called himself
Lucas
, and who had savagely assaulted her husband.
He immediately notified the prosecutors.
"He went to look for him at the address he had given in Mar del Plata after being dismissed in 2019 for the crime of the police, but
he was
gone
and he was
left with a request for his arrest," explained prosecutor Monti.
The news came when Salaverry signed up to get vaccinated for coronavirus.
"We learned that he
had a turn for this Sunday at 11
o'clock and the operation was armed with the DDI of Mar del Plata for his capture," the prosecutor explained.
July 11, 2021
The DDI operation in Mar del Plata, where Cristian Agusti worked until Salaverry and his accomplices killed him, included
police dressed as nurses
and even pretending to be people who had a turn to get vaccinated.
Thus they arrested Alejandro Salaverry.
The fugitive arrived a little after 11 o'clock, the time he had to get vaccinated at the Mar Museum. He lined up like another neighbor
without knowing that the police were around him
: the agents waited for him to complete the paperwork, to be vaccinated and then , they caught him.
This Monday, before the prosecutors of the case being processed in Morón, Salaverry
testified
and gave his version of what happened in 2018. He said that he
got on badly with his neighbor
, who had had previous problems.
He was arrested.
But Salaverry, in his 40s, also alleged to prosecutors that he
suffers from a terminal illness
for which he takes
morphine
.
"He said that there is evidence of this in the Mar del Plata hospital, where he
was treated but used the brother's name
. We await the medical history and that his statements are confirmed. In the meantime, he will continue to be detained," they said from UFI No. 5 of Morón.
This is how the fugitive was lining up to get vaccinated.
October 2003
In October 2003,
Salaverry and three accomplices
attacked a premises on September 20-2900, near the Mar del Plata DDI.
Cristian Agusti, who had been a father recently, 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
Panebianco's
son
.
One of Salaverry's accomplices, at the time of his arrest in 2003.
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, nine years after Graciela traveled the country looking for the two fugitives: he
worked as a waiter
in a Buenos Aires pizzeria and called himself Roberto Percia.
He was also convicted.
Now, Salaverry,
finally, faces Justice
, although it will not be for Agusti's crime.
But as Graciela said: "God did justice."
DD
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