Daniel, the father of Tomás Tello, the 18-year-old who was brutally murdered in Santa Teresita, took aim at the Minister of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires. He did so hours after Javier Alonso, an official in the government of Axel Kicillof, questioned him for not having denounced the threats that the young man was receiving. "Do you mean to tell me that they killed my son because of me?" asked Daniel.
Tomás was stabbed to death by a gang that attacked him in the early hours of Monday morning, in the middle of the New Year's celebrations. For the case, recorded in several videos, there are ten detainees, including two teenagers who were sentenced to preventive detention on Thursday.
Minister Javier Alonso later questioned Tomás' father for not having gone with his son to the police station to report the threats he had received a week before the crime. His words infuriated Daniel.
In addition to insisting on the demand for justice, the man questioned the lack of security in the area during the season and criticized the provincial government.
Tomás Tello's father, at the wake of the young man murdered in Santa Teresita. Photo: Federico López Claro
"It's a. This would have been avoided if he and the people who work for him had been working," Tello told Urbana Play.
"They had to be there when the people of Santa Teresita needed them, not be on vacation or that the police officers he sent to work were celebrating New Year's Eve," he insisted.
In that sense, he recreated that Tomás was chased by a group of more than 20 people for several hours with a fight that began on the beach and ended some time later seven blocks away: "There were no police, in the middle of summer, knowing that every year there are similar situations."
Tomás Tello, the 18-year-old murdered in Santa Teresita.
It was at that moment that he visibly angrily disqualified Alonso and replied: "I didn't think about making the complaint because it was nothing. He's a jerk, he can't tell me this now... Did they kill my son because of me?! Does that mean?"
Anger over lack of police and call for "life for all"
Daniel Tello also criticized the absence of security personnel on the beach, a point on which several witnesses agreed. In addition, she demanded "life imprisonment for all" those involved in the attack, not just for the person who stabbed her son.
He went on to wonder: "Why don't they send police to keep them from getting together or to control them? If it happens every year. I've been living in the Coast district for 38 years, I was born here. We know everything that happens here. They know everything."
Then he reiterated his request: "We want justice and for it to be healthy: perpetual for all. I'm not going to forgive anyone who was there."
And he doubled down on his demand for a harsh penalty for all participants: "I ask for life imprisonment for everyone who hit him, who threw a bottle at him, who grabbed him. All of those have to be imprisoned for the rest of their lives."
Video
It shows the final sequence, where the 18-year-old is left lying in front of a house.
Tomás was killed before 7 a.m. at the corner of 44th Street and Costanera Avenue. A few meters from that place, he had celebrated New Year's Eve with his friends on the beach until he began to be chased - for reasons that are still unknown - by a dozen people. Tomás tried to run away, but was intercepted meters from the sea.
There, the group of people began attacking the 18-year-old with fist blows and at least one knife.
Like Daniel, the father of the murdered young man, several witnesses also said that at the beginning of the episode there were no security personnel on the beach and that a patrol car only appeared when Tomás was dying from the stab wound.
The autopsy confirmed that the victim suffered a puncture wound to the chest that damaged his heart.
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