Juan Manuel Britos (40)
had been targeted by drug gangs for a long time.
They had shot up his house on two occasions and left him death threats
to get him to leave the house where he lived with his family.
Because of these threats, he had received the support of Mayor
Pablo Javkin
in February of last year.
He even had police custody for a few months.
This Thursday, four months after his release from custody, a group of hitmen on a motorcycle intercepted him while he was leaving the house they wanted.
They shot him 29 times
in front of his wife and his 8-year-old son.
He died at the scene.
Juan Manuel was a taxi driver.
For some time now,
"The Mafia" had been demanding that he leave his home
in Felipe Moré at 2600, where he lived with his wife and his son, in the Triángulo y Moderno neighborhood.
“I have nowhere to go, I have no way to rent,” he had complained to Radio 2 last year, when he recounted his nightmare at the time.
They had shot him about seven times according to La Capital de Rosario.
I came to see Juan.
He lives in the Triángulo and Moderno neighborhoods.
They shot up his house twice so he could hand it over.
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— Pablo Javkin (@pablojavkin) February 10, 2023
That same afternoon he had received support.
The same day that she spoke with the Radiopolis program, in the afternoon she received a visit from Javkin at his home.
"It is most likely one of the many extortions that are ordered from prisons without anyone stopping them, and if the security forces do nothing, they end in deaths. I came to Juan's house because today it is a symbol.
These things They can't happen anymore," Javkin had said at the time.
The taxi driver had police custody, which remained for a time until the month of May.
This Thursday, Juan Manuel was leaving his house with his wife, Vanina, and his son when two men intercepted him a few meters away.
From a low-displacement motorcycle, they shot him and then fled towards the south.
The man was hit in the head, chest, abdomen and extremities.
“The taxi was on the sidewalk, they made a U shape, like they didn't see it and turned around.
We were all outside, my 8 year old boy.
I threw myself under the taxi.
All the neighbors were there, more than ten people on the sidewalk
,” the woman told Rosario 2.
The taxi driver was taken to the Clemente Álvarez Emergency Hospital (Heca), but arrived dead.
According to the police report, doctors counted 29 bullet holes throughout his body.
"The one who shot had a helmet, I don't remember who was driving. I know how they were dressed," his wife added.
After the crime, taxi drivers remained vigil in solidarity with their partner.
“We are very dismayed by what happened, beyond the fact that it was not an act of insecurity in the sense that the victim was not doing his job, it is still a regrettable event,” lamented Marcelo Díaz, representative of the Chamber. of Rosario Taxi License Holders.
DP