In the images he is seen happy, fun, enjoying a trip, juggling or playing in musical bands.
Nothing could be further from horror than Lorenzo Altamirano, 28, suffered minutes before 11 p.m. on Wednesday.
According to the notice received by the police, the young man's body was left lying on the street, in front of the entrance to the Newell's stadium.
It was 10:50 p.m. and it was raining over Rosario.
Altamirano was ferociously executed in that same place:
they took him out of a car and shot him in the skull, thorax, and left wrist.
The hitmen, who were traveling in a Renault Sandero found minutes later partially on fire, did not care about the presence of people in the club.
Neither did the camera system arranged in the area.
On the victim's clothes they left a threatening note:
“Damián Escobar and Leandro Vinardi.
Gerardo Gomez!
Stop taking boys out of the club to shoot in Rosario”.
The message they left written on a piece of paper between Altamirano's clothes.
It is not clear what the threat refers to.
Photo: Juan Jose Garcia
A similar text was thrown, minutes before the murder and after a shooting attack against the façade and a police mobile, in front of sub-station 26 of Villa Gobernador Gálvez.
Nicolás Avalle is also mentioned there.
At least three of those mentioned are the sides of Ariel "Guille" Cantero, leader of the "Los Monos" gang.
For researchers, the central piece of the puzzle, the chosen victim, still does not fit.
Altamirano had no record against the law.
He does not show any relationship with criminal gangs.
Much less any ties with bars or with the club where he left his body.
In the club they assure that they never saw him there.
“I dare not say that there is an inmate between bars.
Simply that the people mentioned (in the note) have integrated the bar.
If it is an inmate between bars or it is a specific problem that a member of the bar may have, but unrelated to its activity as a bar, it is too early to confirm it, ”said Homicide prosecutor Ademar Bianchini, in charge of the investigation.
The fact that one of the entrance doors to Newell's has been chosen to execute the young man forces the investigators to delve into the
possible relationship of the episode with some conflict within the club.
Although it could also have been sought to mislead with this assembly or amplify the impact of the crime.
Altamirano was shot in front of the NOB stadium.
The attackers made him get out of a car and shot him.
Photo: Juan Jose Garcia
To think that it was randomly picked up in the street, as it could have happened to anyone else and only for greater impact, opens a door to another kind of horror that cannot be ruled out at the moment.
Altamirano lived in a modest neighborhood, in the western zone of Rosario.
He used to get around with a bicycle and was known by the neighbors.
He spent a lot of time on the street, where among other activities he was dedicated to juggling to get some money.
He would stop at a traffic light and spend hours there, trying to seduce motorists with his skills.
"Jimi", as his friends nicknamed him, played bass in a punk rock band called "Bombs of Rage"
, which hours before had been rehearsing for upcoming shows.
Altamirano had been there.
There are photos taken a while before he was captured and killed.
"Last night, after the rehearsal, our friend and brother Jimi was murdered
," they state in a publication in which they invite them to collaborate to raise money to help the family with the expenses of the wake.
The same thing was said, although more harshly, by the members of CualkierAA, another of the bands that Altamirano was part of.
“Today we have to go through this enormous loss in our lives.
We are devastated and very powerless... They took the life of an innocent kid thanks to the ineffectiveness of our politicians who suck their eggs if they steal, rape or kill us," they denounced.
One of the cars shot in the parking lot of a Rosario police station, It happened after the Altamirano crime.
Photo: Juan Jose Garcia
"Pollo" Vinardi and "Toro" Escobar, two of those mentioned in the messages left next to Altamirano's body and at the police station, not only have a direct relationship with the "Los Monos" gang.
Although they are now detained for committing different crimes – along with "Dibu" Avalle they were convicted of homicides, shootings, kidnappings and drug trafficking - Vinardi and Escobar in the past had a central role within the club's bar.
Beyond the fact that Justice works all the hypotheses, sources consulted by
Clarín
assure that there is currently no inmate within the violent faction of the Newell's fans that justifies the crime.
They flatly rule out an internal conflict with a conclusive fact: for years it has been "Guille" Cantero who has managed that faction with total authority.
He changes his leaders and lieutenants, but
everything is dictated by him from jail without anyone daring to question his orders.
Ariel "Guille" Cantero, leader of Los Monos, virtually in one of the many hearings in one of the many lawsuits against him.
From prison, he manages a faction of the NOB bar.
Photo: Juan Jose Garcia
The bar, its members with the greatest weight, not only has the control of the paravalanche.
Their businesses, for a long time, have extended beyond the limits and borders that mark the field.
Drug trafficking is one of the most profitable crimes and the bloody dispute that the gangs have been settling in Rosario for more than a decade could hide the motive for the new murder.
The homicide alerted the authorities of the Santa Fe Ministry of Security. For Friday night, when Newell's must face Vélez on his court, a special operation was arranged.
To the usual 400 agents who are available for the meetings in the Colossus located in the Parque de la Independencia, events in which only the presence of local fans is allowed, another hundred will be added.
In addition, it was decided to place an extra surveillance ring in the vicinity and to open the facilities three hours before the game so that people arrive on time and not a large crowd gathers around the start time.
Meanwhile,
the reasons why Altamirano was chosen to expose a dispute between criminal groups remain a mystery.
On the young musician's social networks, one can read, in one of his publications, an optimistic fragment of a song belonging to the band Monte Zion.
“And I learned that life is an opportunity to understand what love is. And today I know. Being happy is possible
. "
The text perhaps exposes his future expectations, the happiness of the moment he was going through.
On Wednesday, however, they savagely ended his life.
Rosary beads. Correspondent.
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