A 33-year-old woman was
murdered this Sunday with 24 stab wounds
in her home in the Buenos Aires district of
Berazategui
and her common-law husband was arrested for the femicide, who himself called the Police and confessed to the femicide.
Witnesses from the couple's inner circle reported that the man was a violent person, both with his own family members and with his common-law wife, although she never reported him.
The incident occurred around 4 in the morning, in a house located on streets 115 and 12, in that district in the south of Greater Buenos Aires, where the victim, identified as María Belén Muñoz, lived with the now accused, Alejandro Muñoz, 34 years old.
According to sources,
the woman had four children, three from a previous relationship
, and the remaining one with Albornoz, with whom she lived in a house at the back of the land, while her sister lives in the front part.
According to the spokespersons, it all started when Muñoz's relatives heard the victim's cries for help and mercy, who said
"Ale, no!"
, and they went to the back house to see what was happening.
Under these circumstances, these witnesses began to demand that Albornoz, who had been reported for domestic violence by his own mother, leave the property or they would call the police, to which he himself contacted
911 to say that he had killed to your couple
.
The sources indicated that when the police arrived at the scene
they found Muñoz dead in the bathtub
, with multiple stab wounds, and they interviewed Albornoz, who stated that he had changed his bloody clothes and had thrown them away, along with the knife used. kills attacking the woman, in a back room, where she accumulated different objects.
Given this situation, the man was detained, while the investigations found in that small room the clothing stained with blood and the murder weapon.
In turn, eyewitnesses reported that
Albornoz was violent with Muñoz
, that, at the beginning of the relationship, in 2020, it was more psychological and verbal, but that later became physical, to the point that the woman
hid the injuries with makeup.
.
A judicial spokesperson explained that the testimonies indicated that the man
did not let his partner see
her family, and that this situation was the main trigger for the violence carried out by him, although the couple
never formally reported him out of fear.
.
In fact, Albornoz was restricted from approaching his own family, following the complaint made by his mother.
Meanwhile, the autopsy on the victim's body determined that he had 24 stab wounds, most of them in the chest area and even defensive ones, in the upper limbs.
While Albornoz was housed in a police headquarters and tomorrow he will be investigated by prosecutor Daniel Ichazo, from the decentralized Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 1 of Berazategui, in charge of the file and who has already taken testimony from several of the direct relatives of the woman, present at the time of the crime.
With that of Muñoz, there are already
32 femicides committed so far in 2024 throughout the country
, according to the information provided to Télam by judicial and police sources who intervened in each case, which shows one murder of these characteristics becoming less common. of 30 hours.
Added to this is the violent death of another that occurred today in Junín de los Andes, which is being investigated as a possible femicide.
According to data from La Casa del Encuentro, 67 of the 334 victims registered in 2023 for crimes motivated by gender had previously reported the femicide and 20 of them had a precautionary preventive measure issued against them.
With information from Télam.
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