"They sold them, we want the money
," the thieves who assaulted a coal store in Zárate yesterday afternoon shouted at them, in a violent attack that ended with the murder of an employee and one of the policemen who confronted them when they were escaping.
This was told by the son of the owner of the company, who also maintained before the media that it was a
"command coup"
and that the thieves had made
"previous intelligence"
.
"The neighbors say that
the shooting
that took place was impressive, they could not believe the magnitude of the shots," Ramiro told the media, who works at the company, but was not present at the time of the assault on Thursday around 7:30 p.m. the fierce shooting took place between the gang of at least five robbers and the police.
"It was a commando coup," he said, and assured that in order to get there and enter, the criminals had to do "some intelligence."
Nicolás Canteros, the policeman murdered in a coal bunker in Zárate.
According to his account, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, the thieves entered the property where the coal store and the family home are located.
There were five criminals who shared out: some reduced three employees in one of the houses and others entered the house of the owner of the place, who was with his sister, his daughter and a niece.
"They reduced everyone, also the people who were in the employees' house and
they killed one of the employees in a struggle
. They notified me of this around 8:00 p.m. and I came straight, but everything had already happened, a shooting with the police," he said.
The murdered employee was Luciano Padrón.
Then the assailants took the rest of the coal workers to the owner's house, where they reduced the family.
"
They told them that they sold them, that they wanted money
. My father, my niece, my aunt and my sister were there, whom they threatened and threw to the ground (...)
they tied them up with cables and cords and they took my sister up and down the the stairs asking for more things
," added Ramiro, who added that his relatives heard the criminals tell each other that
they had "sent a shit"
in reference to Padrón's crime.
Shooting in Zárate: criminals killed a policeman and a civilian in an attempted robbery at a coal store
Asked if his family had carried out a different commercial operation for which he had more money than usual in the house, the man said that he is the one who distributes coal in the area and that the activity was "as usual ".
During the event, in addition to the crime of the employee, the criminals
murdered in a subsequent shooting the police officer from the Zárate Motorized Prevention Group Osvaldo Osmar Cantero (25)
, who arrived at the place alerted to the assault along with his partner Ezequiel Romello, who was also shot, though he survived.
The policeman remained hospitalized today with a bullet wound in the right thigh at the Zárate Hospital, where this morning he was visited by the Buenos Aires Security Minister, Sergio Berni.
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Shooting in Zárate: criminals killed a policeman and a civilian in an attempted robbery in a coal store
