An extramarital relationship with the victim and the possibility that she would make it public would be the motives for the crime of Griselda Blanco, the journalist from Curuzú Cuatiá who was murdered in her home last Saturday. The detainee is Dario Alfredo Ricardo Holzweissig (46), a local businessman of the night.
This afternoon, the prosecutor María José Barrero Sahagún and the investigators of Homicides of the Federal Police issued a statement in which they detailed that "through field tasks and analysis of the information obtained in the framework of the investigation, it was possible to collect clear indications that point to Holzweissig as a possible author of the femicide of Griselda Blanco. "
Holzweissig is the man who now remained as the main suspect in the murder of Blanco, with whom at some point he had an occasional and also commercial relationship, since he had hired an advertising guideline.
The man settled in Curuzú Cuatiá about five years ago, when he arrived from Monte Caseros. First he installed a carpentry shop that made fiber-easy furniture; and after the pandemic opened the bowling alley "Punto Sur", at kilometer 159 of Provincial Route 126.
Although the arraignment hearing has not yet been held, investigators said that security cameras show Holzweissig returning home in the early hours of the morning aboard his car, after being in the vicinity of the home of the murdered journalist.
Journalist Griselda Blanco, murdered in Curuzú Cuatiá,
"In addition, other investigations established that there was a previous relationship between Blanco and Holzweissig, which would have been commercial and (later) intimate. The PFA investigators were able to know that Blanco would have extorted Holzweissig in exchange for not making the relationship public and this situation would be the motive for the brutal crime, "they said from the Prosecutor's Office.
An investigator explained that the cameras captured the businessman at 2:37 a.m. when he arrived at Blanco's house carrying a bag. And that he left at 3.12, with the same element and a cell phone that, it is believed, was that of the journalist.
"She used to ask him for money. They were not important amounts. The last one was 50,000 pesos and was to fix a bathroom," said one of the men who worked on the case.
Another image obtained in the vicinity of the bowling alley ended up closing the circle on Holzweissig and releasing the previous defendant, the victim's ex-partner. As it transpired, the moment in which the businessman discards some elements in the vacant lot that on Friday morning was raked by the Federal Police was recorded.
There they found a knife, some clothing and a blue Motorola cell phone. Seven meters away was the cover, transparent in color. The characteristics coincide with the telephone that the femicide made disappear from Blanco's house, although the recognition of the relatives is still lacking. The device was broken.
Another compromising detail is that Holzweissig deleted from his cell phone all the messages he recently crossed with Blanco. However, the experts of the Federal Police were able to recover most of them and there appeared the pressures that the businessman received from the victim.
Beyond the indications that commit the detainee to the crime, investigators said that the expertise on the cell phone found in the vacant lot and the DNA on the hair that the victim had on one of his hands will be key, clear evidence that he tried to defend himself from the attack.
From the Public Prosecutor's Office of Corrientes recalled that from the first moment Barrero Sahagún maintained that no hypothesis was going to be ruled out, despite the fact that the arrest of the former couple was quickly ordered.
The man entered investigators' radar based on information provided by the victim's children. The businessman was raided on Monday and Tuesday, but until that moment the prosecutor had not gathered evidence to request his arrest.
Once incorporated into the case the images of the cameras, the agents of the Federal arrived again at his house this Thursday at dusk and at 20.57 they informed him of his arrest. "He looked resigned," confided one researcher.
Griselda Blanco (44) lived alone on Juan Pujol Street, in Curuzú Cuatiá. In the early hours of Saturday she was beaten and killed with a puncture to the neck. The murderer then knotted a rope around the woman's neck to try to pass off the crime as a suicide.
Blanco made live broadcasts via Facebook and used to make complaints about cases of police corruption, the existence of police officers on duty despite being denounced for abuse and sexual harassment. In addition, he had charged against the directors and doctors of the local hospital for alleged cases of malpractice.
Missions. Correspondent
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