Mauro Aguilar
08/22/2021 3:19 PM
Clarín.com
Police
Updated 08/22/2021 3:19 PM
In a hectic day for him, after being identified during the morning as the instigator of seven shooting attacks against judicial targets, Ariel “Guille” Cantero (33) was indicted on Friday afternoon as the leader of a gang that carried out extortion and extortion maneuvers.
instigator of an aggravated homicide
.
For both crimes, the head of the drug gang Los Monos can be sentenced to 33 years in prison.
Thus, he would long exceed the 100-year sentence: he has already been sentenced to 64 years and 8 months in prison for other crimes and, in addition, the 24 years requested by the Prosecutor's Office in the case for the attacks on Justice could be added.
The accumulated,
to receive the maximum sentences, impacts: 121 years.
During the morning, at the hearing of the first trial, Cantero had surprised everyone by appearing in court, during a routine procedure.
"
Office
?" Judge Hebe Marcogliese asked him.
"
Various offices
", he released before pausing and surprising with a brutal phrase to complete the answer: "
Contract hitmen to shoot the judicial judges
."
Cantero followed the trial against him from the Máximo Paz prison, through videoconference.
During the afternoon he faced another accusation hearing.
Photo: Juan José García
In the afternoon it was time to hear the accusations in the other case facing the head of Los Monos.
This file analyzes his responsibility in
the crime of a gambler
who was attacked when he was in the smoking area of the Casino City Center in Rosario, an event that occurred on January 11, 2020, which shocked the city.
"Guille", as part of a plan of maneuvers that he orchestrated from jail seeking to obtain money in exchange for not attacking people, businesses, businesses and union leaders, prepared the plan against the mega betting enterprise located in the southern area of the city. town.
"Let's see how it turns out"
"Pay attention. We do it well to see if they give us something good piola ”
,“ Guille ”encourages Maximiliano“ Cachete ”Díaz, a man of his confidence, in a communication on January 7, four days before the deadly attack.
“Boludo, all good. There already type eight I'm going to the (casino) City for a little while to see what's up
,
”
“ Cachete ”responds to Cantero in that communication.
The drug lord asks him to elaborate the plan well to obtain a good economic arrangement.
"Yes, yes, boludo.
There I already told the guachos what to do.
So let's see how it turns out, ”
Diaz responds.
“Cachete” had already been indicted months ago for other extortions - now he was added two more as the perpetrator - and for the crime of Enrique Ensino, a
64-year-old bank manager
who was like another client of the casino and was shot in his head when he was in the smoking room.
The security operation in Rosario, before the start of a new trial against the leader of Los Monos.
Photo: Juan José García
Díaz received the orders that Cantero brought him down from prison and was in charge of speaking with the extorted persons
("
If there is no money, there are bullets,
"
he told one of them) to provide mobility and weapons to the people who attacked the casino.
Another member of the group, Carlos “Toro” Escobar, was indicted for the Ensino crime and for various extortions.
In the case of Fernando “Enano” Morel, who had people available for different shootings, six acts of gun abuse were attributed to him as the primary participant.
In that criminal group, union member Horacio Boix sought support, a leader who was fired in August 2019 from the Rosario taxi laborers union for fraudulent administration.
Boix asked the band for collaboration to intimidate his former colleagues, seeking to regain the leadership of the entity, something that ultimately failed.
Six shooting attacks were registered against the homes of the main members of the new executive committee, attributed to the gang and to Boix himself.
The episodes happened between September 2, 2019 and January 6, 2020.
Boix was charged with two acts of extortion as an instigator and six acts of abuse of a weapon as an instigator.
You will be detained at your home, without deadlines.
For the extortions and the gambler's crime, Cantero could receive a sentence of between 18 and 33 years in prison.
Rosary beads. Correspondent
LM - EMJ
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