Jennifer, Uma, María Lucrecia and Maximiliano.
You have to remember the names.
Four executed in robberies in Greater Buenos Aires, in just 10 days,
is a terrifying number
.
But only when you think about the people behind each of these deaths do you understand the true tragedy of insecurity.
It's not just a statistic.
Jennifer was 13 years old and
she was killed with a shot to the chest
on Thursday the 18th when four thieves - who were traveling in a stolen car with which they had committed nine break-ins in six days - wanted to take the money, about $50,000, that her father was keeping. in a shoe box, in a humble corralón house in Virrey del Pino.
Uma was 9 years old.
She
was shot in the head
on Monday the 22nd, when she was leaving her house in Lomas de Zamora with her father, the custodian of Minister Patricia Bullrich.
Four criminals, at least three of them with prior records, who were traveling in a car stolen shortly before, wanted to take the Ford Ka driven by the man, who accelerated to avoid them: one of the assailants shot and killed the girl.
María was 51 years old and
she was shot in the back
on Thursday the 25th, when she arrived at her home in Castelar with her 17-year-old daughter.
Four thieves approached him to steal her car, a VW Suran.
Apparently, Ella Maria got nervous and took a while to unbuckle her seat belt, prompting some mindless jerk to shoot and kill her.
Maximiliano had turned 24 years old.
Last Saturday morning he was riding his blue motorcycle with a displacement of 110 cubic centimeters along Eva Perón Avenue, in Monte Chingolo, when two motorcycle jets pulled up alongside him.
The young man struggled to avoid the robbery and
one of the assailants shot him in the chest and killed him
.
According to official figures, in 2021 there were 797 intentional homicides in the province of Buenos Aires.
And 716 in 2022, the latest known data.
About two a day.
They are horrible numbers.
But above all you have to remember the names.
Don't let it happen like with Morena.
She was 11 years old and on Wednesday, August 9 of last year, she was about to arrive at her school, in Villa Diamante, when two motorcycle jets, to steal her backpack and her cell phone, threw her against the asphalt and the blow was fatal. .
Her murder shocked the country, to such an extent that the presidential candidates suspended their campaign closings for the PASO.
Today not many remember Morena.
It does not matter how many of these murderers are detained today (and one thing is the media announcements of arrests and
another thing is that those “instant” detainees are later the real culprits
).
Really do not care.
They are all similar: young, marginal, played.
They steal because they don't know how to do anything else, because that's what they live for.
And they kill because they believe that lives are worthless, just like theirs.
Exaggerated?
On Saturday evening, five armed robbers stole a Toyota Hilux in Ezpeleta.
Seven kilometers later, pursued by the Police, they crashed into a tree at 150 kilometers per hour.
Three died and two were seriously injured.
Two were minors.
Two others were 19 years old
.
There are many like this and locking some up is not enough.
What matters is preventing them from killing.
To do this, of course, we would have to have a political decision, and a plan.
In the Province, at the moment, there appears to be neither.
Governor Axel Kicillof,
a faithful disciple of the Kirchnerist tradition on the subject
, only made a few brief statements to the provincial radio, the afternoon following Uma's death, after participating in the CGT event in the Plaza de Mayo: he disassociated himself of the problem and held Justice responsible.
And that was it.
Yes, that was it.