08/09/2021 7:16 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 08/09/2021 19:16
After the double homicide in a bloody attack by the Gauchito Gil mafia in a Corrientes sanctuary in Mercedes, several people
dismantled the posts in the area with their hammer blows
.
Sergio Canteros
(33) wanted to prevent his house from being taken over, in front of the property known as “
Cruz Gil
” and they stabbed him along with his father, Milton.
They both died.
The double crime shocked the town of Corrientes and exposed a mafia.
There are already seven detainees,
although relatives of those killed reported that there were ten attackers.
The brother-in-law of the victims was also injured and remains hospitalized.
According to the local media El Litoral, this Monday a group of people approached to
demolish the posts on
the land bordering National Route No. 123.
In a video published by the Corrientes media, it is seen that they
went with maces to break the walls and dismantle the posts
.
The case
Last Friday at 6.15pm,
Yesica Rodríguez
dialed her husband's number and told him the news: "They are wanting to go home."
Sergio "Checho" Canteros already knew who they were.
He had reported them to the police station and the prosecution days ago.
That is why he did not hesitate: he got into the car and started the trip, together with his father.
There were eight kilometers of distance between the city of Mercedes, where he was, and the area of the property known as "Cruz Gil", where he lived.
As
Clarín was
able to reconstruct
, Sergio and his father, Milton, 64, began to be attacked by a group of men linked to
Ramona Villalba
, creator of the sanctuary that receives more than 200 thousand faithful every first week of January.
They both died.
"She is a lady who ten years ago cleaned the bathrooms on the property and today she has hotels, properties, high-end trucks," says Andrés Pintos, a relative of Sergio.
"The previous president of the property had to leave his post due to an accident and she took her place by force. The commission was left headless. Its people run like a mafia: they are drugged and armed. They not only run all the street stalls (they He estimates that it would be between 50 and 300). Now they wanted to occupy the land on the other side of the road. "
The properties belong to the family of Sergio's wife.
After arguing with the attackers, Sergio - the father of two children - went back to the field area, behind his shop and his house.
They threatened him with knives and tried to attack him, until he fell and could not get up: he
received about twenty stab wounds
.
He died in Las Mercedes hospital an hour later.
His father was also transferred to the same place, where he was in intensive care until he died this Monday.
According to his family, he had between five and seven wounds, all stabbed.
Sergio's brother-in-law was also cut off with a stab and had to give him fifteen stitches.
The case is being investigated by the prosecutor Adrián Casarrubia.
Sergio Canteros and his father, Milton.
The two were killed in front of a Gauchito Gil shrine in Mercedes, Corrientes.
"He fought so that these garbage (by the attackers) that have already taken over Cruz Gil, who have already covered up the entire gaucho, do not come and do the same in front of our house. Please, I need you to help me so that we all demand cleaning del Gaucho, "published the victim's wife, Yesica (31), on her Facebook profile.
What Yesica raised is the main complaint of the hundreds of thousands of Gauchito Gil devotees.
Some even say that they stopped traveling to ask or thank him for miracles due to the poor state of the sanctuary.
"They put up so many stalls that you can't even see the saint from the entrance. They covered him up", "they invoice with donations, offerings and product sales and they didn't do a single work. They even charge you for going to the bathroom", are the Most repeated comments in the different Facebook groups of believers.
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