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Heartbreaking testimony of the widow of the bus driver murdered in La Matanza: "They took away my desire to live"

2023-04-03T22:48:59.404Z


Andrea, wife of driver Daniel Barrientos, said that her husband "was everything" to her. She related how the transport company informed her of the crime. The dreams they had for when she retired.


The wife of

Daniel Barrientos

, the bus driver murdered with a shot to the chest in the early hours of this Monday, made a heartbreaking portrait, assured that the criminals "drew the desire to live", since her husband was "everything"

for her

.

Barrientos was murdered by thieves who assaulted the passengers of his bus on line 620 and shot at an agent of the City Police who was traveling aboard the same unit, in the town of Virrey del Pino in Buenos Aires, La Slaughter.

"

For me it was everything

.

Half of my life was taken from me

. They took away my desire to live," said the sorrowful woman named Andrea in statements to the C5N channel on Monday afternoon.

She said that feelings of "pain, anguish and a lot of sadness" invade her.

"The only thing I can ask for now is justice, that they pay what they have to pay," she said.


The widow recalled that her husband "

already wanted to retire

" and that they were only

waiting for "the response from ANSES"

to then dedicate themselves to their new "projects", which were "a lot":

Daniel Barrientos, the bus driver murdered in a robbery in Virrey del Pino

"

We wanted to travel

, buy our house. Live what we had left, start a business.

We had the project to leave Buenos Aires

. Everything is very complicated.

We could not

, "said Andrea.

According to the woman, Daniel, 65, "

lately I no longer wanted to go to work

" but "wanted to enjoy life and family."

"He always sent me messages when he arrived. Today it was exactly the same.

I told him to call me

when he arrived so he wouldn't use his cell phone when he was driving. And

he didn't answer me anymore

," she said excitedly.

"I sent him a couple of messages and he didn't answer me anymore.

All the rounds he was telling me

," recalled Andrea, who admitted that it seemed "strange" that he did not communicate with her again.

And in that sense he added: "

I found out from people from the company that they had killed him

."

Andrea described her husband as "an excellent person" and only asked for "justice", that what happened "come to light" and that this

"cannot continue to happen"

.

The widow of the murdered bus driver was afraid: "All the routes he took were very dangerous"

"Today it was the turn of

the person I love the most in life

, but there are many colleagues who go through the same thing," said Andrea, who preferred not to refer to the incidents in which the Buenos Aires Security Minister, Sergio Berni, was attacked.

Attack on Sergio Berni in the protest against the death of Daniel Barrientos.

Photo Maxi Failla.

Regarding what her husband's job was like, the woman said that

"all the routes she took were very dangerous"

and

that her bus "did not have a security camera

."

Andrea recalled that "many years ago" Daniel had already had an "act of insecurity", and that he still had not told his daughter what had happened, who

has a developmental delay

.

"He adored his profession.

I was afraid something would happen to him

," the woman concluded.

With information from Telam.

DS​


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