Roxana Badaloni
07/25/2021 18:32
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 07/25/2021 6:34 PM
The crime of the Mendoza sports journalist Luziano Moreno (30) generated shock and indignation among his friends and acquaintances.
"El Lucho was a very special being, very good, full of goodness. He gave you everything, his life," said his girlfriend Julieta Peralta, with whom he had planned to emigrate to Spain in October.
Social networks expressed impotence and pain: “
Brother, I can't believe you are leaving like this!
Great person, excellent guy, I am in shock, today you are in a better place although you should not be there it is not fair that you are there RIP Lucho Moreno, goal hug, my brother
”, wrote a friend on his Facebook profile.
The journalist, who worked on sports digital portals and as a press for the Academia Chacras club of the Mendoza Football League, was stabbed to death in an alleged robbery attempt, in a frustrated exchange of pesos for dollars.
“
Luchito, what it cost me to wink last night, I can't believe it brother.
We met when we were very little, you went to my house, I don't forget it anymore… rest in peace brother
”, another friend posted.
And Rodrigo, who said he was a “friend of the soul”, fired him: “
Fly high, I will always remember you as the excellent person you are.
I love you a lot, friend, always in my heart
”.
Luziano Moreno, the victim.
Last Thursday, the journalist met with Pablo Rivas Stewart (28) from San Rafael, with whom he had agreed to purchase $ 22,000.
Luziano had sold many of his things to travel and cover the first months of his stay in Europe, where he
wanted to start a new life
.
He took 4 million pesos to the appointment with Rivas Stewart.
The meeting was inside the journalist's car on a corner of the Bombal neighborhood, a few blocks from the Government House of Mendoza.
There was an argument between the young men, a struggle and a tragic ending: the murderer stabbed Moreno.
On Twitter, the club for which the victim worked published: “
With pain, we learned the sad news that Luziano, dear Lucho Moreno, who knew how to be a journalist and press for our club, has left us.
We accompany your family and friends at this time, hoping you have an eternal rest.
RIP.
You will be eternal in each memory
”.
The victim's girlfriend gave details of the plan to emigrate to Spain.
"We needed enough money to leave and we got it, but I never imagined that it would end like this." And he continued: "There are no words, I feel pain that is inexplicable. I hope that justice is done because like this, by killing people, this country does not it works, "Peralta told
Channel 9
of Mendoza.
Key witness
A neighbor, who witnessed the sequence from the window of his apartment, notified the police.
This was decisive in stopping the murderer.
After the attack, the victim, badly wounded, managed to throw the car keys out the window, but the assailant picked them up and drove to the west of Godoy Cruz, with the victim still inside the white Volkswagen Fox.
Rivas Stewart was arrested minutes later, when he tried to discard the body of the victim.
The police found the car with a can of fuel, for which it is suspected that he was trying
to set fire with his victim inside
.
The suspect.
Prosecutor Claudia Ríos charged him on Friday with the crime of "
homicide criminis causa
", as accused of killing to hide a crime.
If found guilty, Rivas Stewart could be sentenced to life.
The young detainee is a former judicial employee of San Rafael, he was living in Godoy Cruz, Mendoza, and is the brother of a former queen of the San Rafael Harvest.
Witnesses said that he met Moreno through a mutual friend, but that it was the first time they saw each other for this transaction, which was fatal.
The dollars that he was supposed to exchange never appeared, but the 4 million pesos that the victim was carrying did.
The sanrafaelino was arrested in Contraventores, the same Thursday when he was discovered by the police in a field with the body of the victim inside the car.
This Monday he will be transferred to the Mendoza prison, according to judicial sources.
EMJ
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