07/29/2021 6:28 AM
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Updated 7/29/2021 6:28 AM
The story seems taken from a book or a police series, but it occurred in Uruguay and had as victims an arms dealer and his daughter, who after being
executed were abandoned in the trunk
of a car.
The incident occurred in
2008
, but the details of the macabre crime recently emerged when the Uruguayan justice ruling that
sentenced two men to 25 years in prison became known
.
According to the investigation, on June 17, 2008, Euclides Viera, who was engaged in the sale and processing of carrying weapons, was contacted by Esteban R. and Cristian F.
According to what the newspaper
El País
of Uruguay reported, the merchant knew Cristian F. because he had arranged to carry arms for him and his brother.
Even, according to the report, the merchant and Cristian F. were close to opening a security company, although the initiative never materialized.
This time, Esteban was the one who started the conversations, called Viera
interested in acquiring four pistols
, and argued that he was part of a family of four brothers who were engaged in rice production and that they wanted to have them for safety.
As part of the strategy, Esteban invited Viera to carry the weapons to his home in the city of
Piriápolis
.
According to what the file indicates, two days after that call, the merchant and his daughter traveled to the seaside resort of the department of Maldonado.
Viera
did not suspect what could happen to him
, because he knew Cristian.
Even his daughter Natalia Viera wrote the place of the appointment to which he would go with his father: "last ring house before the chairlifts".
According to what was reported by the newspaper
El País
, the businessman and his daughter traveled on June 19 in the afternoon to Piriápolis in a Volkswagen Santana car, with the intention of selling him the weapons.
Viera and her daughter arrived at the house located on the last ring of Cerro San Antonio and were received by Esteban, who
offered
the guests
a cup of tea
.
It was at the time that the owner of the house went to prepare tea and Cristian F appeared on the scene, who from the back of the house and through one of the windows executed the merchant and his daughter with three bullets.
The victims were surprised by the offender since they
had their backs to the window
that overlooked a backyard.
According to the expert reports, one of the bullets hit Natalia's spinal cord and another hit her neck,
killing her immediately
.
Meanwhile, the gunsmith suffered an impact in the right hemithorax and was seriously injured.
"Cristian F., in order to kill him, executed Viera with
a direct shot to the head,
causing him immediate death," the Uruguayan court's ruling stated when describing the cold-blooded murder.
"Gallego, what did you do?"
Hearing the detonations and returning from the kitchen, Esteban intimated his accomplice for what had happened.
"Gallego, what did you do?"
, shouted him.
However, the aggressor, who was a member of the Spanish Army for three years, aimed at Esteban's head and under threat forced him to load the bodies in the trunk of Viera's car to then travel to Montevideo.
Finally, the criminals left the car with the bodies in the trunk on a street in the Carrasco neighborhood and went to the Tres Cruces Terminal, where they took a car to return to Piriápolis.
A day later, a neighbor alerted about the strange presence of a Volkswagen Santana and when the police opened the vehicle they found the bodies of Viera and her daughter.
A toll check allowed investigators to reconstruct the events.
The police went first to the merchant's house, where they found Natalia Viera's agenda that took them to the Cerro San Antonio home.
At the scene of the crime, the agents found the bloodstains, three self-defense sprays of those sold by the deceased and a curtain perforated by the bullets with which the father and daughter were executed.
Esteban's defense attorney tried to alleviate the incident.
“The idea was for Cristian to enter the house hooded to
scavenge the gunsmith's weapons
.
My client did not know that he was going to kill the gunsmith and his daughter, ”he argued.
The truth is that the defendants face 25 years in prison for
aggravated double homicide
, since the court understood that there was a plan to murder Viera and her daughter with the intention of robbing them.
GRB
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