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They offered $ 5,000,000 to catch him: he was in a police station under a false name

2023-05-31T09:41:28.713Z

Highlights: Leandro Strassera (21) remained a fugitive since New Year's Day 2022, when he killed Lara Fernández (17) with three accomplices to steal her cell phone in Lomas de Zamora. The police received the information that the only fugitive from the gang that killed Lara was detained under a false name. He had been there since May 11, arrested for an assault. He was transferred to the 1st police station of Avellaneda, where prosecutor Alejandra Olmos Coronel charged him with aggravated robbery.


Leandro Strassera (21) remained a fugitive since New Year's Day 2022, when he killed Lara Fernández (17) with three accomplices to steal her cell phone in Lomas de Zamora.


The police received the information that the only fugitive from the gang that killed Lara Valentina Fernández (17) on New Year's morning 2022, by a cell phone, in Lomas de Zamora, was detained under a false name. Then he began to visit the police stations in the southern zone of the GBA and the only one that could not be allowed to see the files without a court order was in the 1st. of Avellaneda.

Leandro Nicolás Strassera (21), for whom the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security offered a reward of 5,000,000 pesos, had been there since May 11, arrested for an assault. He had given a false name and ID: he said his name was Antonio Miguel Ramos, unemployed, with address in Dock Sud.

Maria Laura Fernandez (41), mother of the murdered teenager, found out about everything last Wednesday. He took a deep breath, because he was the last member of the group that killed Lara with a shot in the back of the head who was at large.

Lara Valentina Fernández (17) was killed to steal her cell phone in Lomas de Zamora. In the photo, with his mother, María Laura.

On May 11, after one o'clock in the morning, a 25-year-old Paraguayan national was assaulted by at least three criminals who took his wallet and cell phone. Agents of the Naval Prefecture who were patrolling the area of Villa Tranquila, in Dock Sud, party of Avellaneda, saw them running and caught one in the corridors of the settlement.

The young man, who had weapons, was in yellow shorts and a beige jacket. He was transferred to the 1st police station. of Avellaneda, where prosecutor Alejandra Olmos Coronel (UFI No. 1) charged him with "aggravated robbery for being in a town and in a gang."

A few days passed until, based on intelligence tasks, they managed to detect that it was Strassera. They confirmed it with their fingerprints. It was the millionaire reward for the crime of a girl who was just beginning to live, who was going to start her last year of high school and who dreamed of being an agronomist.

The four young men who killed Lara Valentina Fernández (17) in Lomas de Zamora to steal her cell phone.

"This is a little relief, a little, not much because nothing is going to give me back my daughter, but well, now behind bars I am relieved by the fact that she is not going to steal from anyone else and at least she is not going to hurt anyone else," Lara's mother told Clarín.

The woman, who is an officer of the City Police, insisted: "Let's not forget that there were four and they were all armed and they did not care about stealing or killing or anything, so knowing that it is one less on the street that is going to commit a crime is like a little relief."

Fernández lamented that the four accused of Lara's crime will not be subjected to a jury trial because at least two of them have already opposed it.

"Obviously it does not suit them because society is already so tired that we know that it will condemn them to the maximum, so it was obvious. Hopefully at some point that will also change and give a little more support to the victims. That would be nice to at least know that you have the state, you have the support," he added.

The request for a millionaire reward that had been disseminated to catch the only fugitive from the gang that killed Lara Valentina Fernández (17) to steal her cell phone in Lomas de Zamora.

Lara's crime

On January 1, 2022, at six in the morning, María Laura Fernández arrived to take service to Directory and Thompson, in Caballito, where young people usually gather to drink alcohol and celebrate the arrival of the New Year. She was the driver of the patrol car.

"Lalu", as she used to say to her eldest daughter (the other is Estrella, now 10 years old), had raised her alone, because her partner left her when she became pregnant. That's why he bore his mother's surname.

The New Year had been spent apart. The girl was with her friends and Laura went to La Matanza with her boyfriend.

At 6:30 a.m., the woman sent him a video of the boys' party at Directory. The same age as Lara. She never got to see him. When he returned to the patrol car after half an hour to check the time on his cell phone, he had three missed calls: from his mother, from a neighbor and from an unknown number.

"

Look, Laura, don't panic, they wanted to rob Lara," was the first thing he heard on the phone. Desperate, she begged, "Please tell me it's okay." But on the other side they had to tell him the truth, half-heartedly: "Look, they shot him in the back of the head."

The assault occurred after six in the morning in Falucho and Olmos, where the girl was with a group of 10 friends. They surprised her when she was on her back sending a message with the cell phone that one of the boys had lent her, because her old Samsung Galaxy J2 Prime, which was not worth 10,000 pesos and had been passed by her mother, no longer had a battery.

"

Don't touch me!" was the only thing he managed to shout. One of the criminals hit him in the head with a butt and at the same time the shot came out.

A few hours after the murder, Cristian "Chula" Maidana (23) was arrested. And on March 28, 2022, they caught Alan Benjamín González (22), who was working with an uncle at the Central Market. He had a cross tattooed on his face and is undocumented. He took refuge in his relative's house.

"Martincito", accused as the author of the shot, fell on March 3 of last year, with 15 years. He did not do the easy task for the Buenos Aires policemen who went to his mother's house: he resisted and shot with a .38 caliber revolver. He ended up in prison and in a hospital, with three bullets in his legs.

Days later he escaped from the juvenile institute of La Plata and returned to the adventures: he robbed a woman's car at gunpoint, shot himself with the police and was recaptured.

The last fugitive, Leandro Strassera, spent 405 days in hiding: the lie did not go far.

"Martincito"; accused of killing Lara Valentina Fernández (17) to steal her cell phone in Lomas de Zamora.

EMJ

See also

"Martincito", the teenager who lives on the edge of death: he escaped and the next day he returned to the shots

Reward of up to $ 5,000,000 for the crime of a 17-year-old girl

Source: clarin

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