First there was
Uma
, the 9-year-old girl who died after being shot when they tried to steal her parents' car.
Then it was
María Lucrecia
, who could not unbuckle her seat belt and was shot and killed.
This Saturday it was Maximiliano
's turn
, who died with a bullet in the chest for resisting the theft of his motorcycle.
Three fatalities in six days, and
a common scenario: the streets of the Buenos Aires suburbs
.
A network of diverse realities where insecurity has ruled for a long time and life seems to be worth less and less.
And beyond the setting, the circumstances and the outcome common to the three events, an invisible thread unites them: in none of the three cases did the murderers manage to take anything.
They executed their victims and escaped empty-handed.
This Saturday, in
Monte Chingolo
- a "brave" town in the Lanús district, in the south of the suburbs - a 27-year-old young man was on a motorcycle when a similar vehicle with two men pulled up alongside him.
A man was assaulted in Monte Chingolo and they killed him to steal his motorcycle.
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There was a struggle because Maximiliano Rojas - that was the victim's name - wanted to prevent the robbery.
He was shot in the chest.
He died almost instantly next to his motorcycle, which was left at the scene.
The criminals escaped, and the police are trying to identify them from security camera recordings that may have recorded the incident or their passage through the area.
Less than 24 hours ago, a woman named Graciela made a request before the television cameras: "I came out because it is my intention that Mrs. Patricia Bullrich listen to me."
She was at the door of a house in
Castelar
, where María Lucrecia Arias had been murdered the night before.
Her daughter, 51 years old.
María Lucrecia was returning to her house - the same one where her mother asked the Minister of National Security for answers - on Thursday around 11 p.m., when she was approached by four criminals who wanted to steal her Volkswagen Suran.
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"Just as they caught Uma's murderers, I want them to catch my daughter's murderers," asked the mother of the woman murdered in Castelar.
The investigators' main hypothesis is that Arias's seat belt would have gotten stuck and she could not immediately get out of the car when the criminals threatened her, so they shot her in the chest.
A single fatal shot.
Until now, the investigation in search of the culprits is trying to advance with the few clues they have collected so far.
The experts lifted fingerprints at the crime scene and seized images from security cameras in the area, which will be analyzed to make progress in identifying the criminals.
Furthermore, shortly after the incident, a black Peugeot 2008 car, which would be the one used by the criminals, was found in the area of the Ejercito de los Andes neighborhood, known as "Fuerte Apache", of Ciudadela.
The first link in this tragic chain occurred on Monday in
Villa Centenario
(Lomas de Zamora district).
Uma Aguilera, 9 years old, was in the back seat of her father's Ford Ka, a member of the Federal Police who serves as Minister Bullrich's custodian.
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A camera was able to capture the moment of the alleged attempted robbery of a custodian of Patricia Bullrich.
Together with the mother, the three were aboard the car leaving the family home, when a black Toyota Corolla tried to block their way.
Uma's father dodged it and accelerated, but two people got out of the other car and shot.
One of the bullets hit the girl in the back of the head, causing her death hours later.
For this fact, five have been arrested so far.
The last one fell on Friday, and joined the other four who were apprehended over the days, and among those who the Ministry of Security affirm is the author of the fatal shot.
Two of those detainees refused to testify on Friday before the prosecutor in the case.
This Saturday, meanwhile, it will be the turn of another of them, a minor, who will sit before a representative of the Juvenile Criminal Responsibility Jurisdiction of the same judicial department.