While Alberto Fernández pointed out on television that one of the security problems in Santa Fe is its police, the provincial Justice ordered this Friday an important operation in Rosario with an eye on that issue.
In parallel with the
arrest of uniformed officers and the raid of former local bosses ,
three homicides
were added during the night,
complicating the scenario after the threats against Lionel Messi.
The procedure requested by the Organized Crime and Complex Crimes Agency added
new indications of structural corruption in the city
.
The two detainees at the request of prosecutors Luis Schiappa Pietra and Matías Edery worked with the Intentional Homicide unit of the Public Prosecutor's Office (MPA).
Luciano Arellano and Mauro Barúa remained under arrest until Monday, when they will be charged with
concealment and breach of duties as a public official
.
The case with which they are linked is not one more.
It is about the death of Nelson Andrés Aquiles Saravia (41), riddled with bullets in his house on Saturday, October 23, 2021.
Until mid-2016, "El Chivo" was one of the leaders of the Newell's barra brava in Rosario.
The Prosecutor's Office maintains that different gangs dedicated to the sale of drugs converge there, including factions of Los Monos.
Although Ariel Máximo "Guille" Cantero is at the top of the pyramid,
the cyclical fight for control of the organization and the drug business continues
.
In the red and black record, Saravia was the only former boss who was not in prison or had not been assassinated.
A year and a half after he was killed, a
chilling chapter
recently added to that violent saga.
On Wednesday, February 1, a group of criminals kidnapped the musician and street artist Lorenzo "Jimi" Altamirano (28) when he was returning to his house.
Minutes later,
they took him to the court and executed him for leaving a note threatening
an antagonistic group.
In a new step towards the clarification of the "Goat" crime, the MPA went to look for the two police officers under suspicion of corruption in a shed in the west of Rosario.
During the operation in Guatemala at 2200
they found Alejandro Franganillo
, who knew how to be responsible for the former Dangerous Drugs division in the city.
The retired general commissioner was released, but his phone was seized.
Prosecutors also raided his house in the neighboring city of Granadero Baigorria, where until recently he
worked as secretary of Citizen Security for the Municipality
.
The Organized Crime and Complex Crimes Agency took the same measures in the case of Marcelo Mendoza, another guest at the meeting.
Unlike Fraganillo, the police director is still on duty.
Between the end of October 2021 and January 2022, he drove by force in Rosario as deputy chief
.
Until now he headed the regional leadership of Villa Constitución, in the extreme southeast of Santa Fe.
In total, the investigators seized
almost 2 million pesos in cash, 2,400 dollars and a dozen mobile phones
.
In the meeting attended by the detainees and the delayed, they also found a motorhome that was made available to Justice.
Three crimes in two hours
Apart from this operation, the alarming average of
almost one homicide per day has been maintained in the Rosario department since the beginning of 2023
.
In the midst of the alert that triggered the shooting in the supermarket of Antonela Roccuzzo's father,
three people were killed this Friday in just two hours
.
Judicial sources reported the
murder of a 38-year-old man who was found wounded in the street
, near the Itatí neighborhood.
Around 10 pm, the police confirmed the death of Eugenio Domingo Campos, shot near the intersection of Rodríguez and Biedma.
Prosecutor Adrián Spelta requested an autopsy of the body at the Legal Medical Institute (IML), but no indications were revealed regarding the mechanics of the event.
The second episode occurred almost an hour later in the vicinity of the Independencia and Vera Mujica alley.
There they executed Wilson David Silveira.
At least two people who were driving
stopped the 52-year-old merchant when he was about to get out of his vehicle
in the Parque neighborhood and shot him several times.
The owner of a fast food joint was murdered this weekend.
Photo Juan Jose Garcia
The owner of the traditional Milton fast food joint died at the scene.
During the operation after the ambush, the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) seized
eight pods of 9-mm caliber projectiles
.
Finally, a 28-year-old young man died in the first minutes of Sunday, when
he was shot in the skull
.
The police reported the death of Maximiliano Daniel Bazán based on a telephone complaint from Chacabuco at 3400.
At midnight, the uniformed officers
found the body in a hallway in the Tablada neighborhood
.
At the crime scene they found traces of an episode of extreme violence.
In total, the authorities collected 14 served pods and four deformed leads.
From this series of cases, this year at least
60 homicides have already been registered in the Rosario department
.
In February, 30 victims were reported, more than one a day, and March started with no sign of an improvement in security.
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