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The wave of violence continues in Rosario: the beach attendant at a service station was murdered

2024-03-10T05:28:38.707Z

Highlights: The wave of violence continues in Rosario: the beach attendant at a service station was murdered. The attackers left a note with threats for Governor Pullaro and his Minister of Security. The Government believes that the events respond to the Bukele-style searches carried out in the Piñero prison, where high-profile prisoners linked to drug trafficking are housed. "The entire country saw the terrible events that occurred in recent days, and if we do not put an urgent stop, the violence will continue to escalate," says Patricia Bullrich.


The victim was 25 years old and was shot at least three times. The attackers left a note with threats for Governor Pullaro and his Minister of Security. The city had just suffered the crimes of two taxi drivers and the attack on a bus, among other episodes.


The episodes of violence and horror in

Rosario

seem to have no end.

The fact is that, to the recent crimes of two taxi drivers and the shooting attack against a trolleybus driver, among other events, was added this Saturday night

the murder of the beach attendant of a service station

located in the western part of the city. .

The victim, 25 years old, worked in the business located in Mendoza at 7,600, where minutes before midnight, in an office,

he was shot at least three times

by a person who then escaped with an accomplice in a car.

Before fleeing, the attacker left

a note with threats

for the governor of Santa Fe,

Maximiliano Pullaro

, and his Minister of Security, Pablo Cococcioni, in which they make reference to the situation of prisoners in provincial prisons.

“This war is not about territory.

It is against Pullaro and Cococcioni,” the paper reads.

All this happens in a context where gangs

use innocent people to spread terror

.

During the last day, in fact, they also hung a cloth on a Ring Road bridge with an intimidating message for the governor and his minister.

This Saturday they also hung a cloth on a Ring Road bridge with an intimidating message for Governor Pullaro and his Minister of Security.

Photo Juan José García.

The Government believes that the events respond to the Bukele-style searches carried out in the Piñero prison, where high-profile prisoners linked to drug trafficking

are housed

.

This Saturday, Patricia Bullrich referred to the crisis of violence that affects Rosario and wrote an open letter to its citizens in which she affirms that the government "will go all out" to stop the escalation, considering the attacks an "act of terrorism." .

"The entire country saw the terrible events that occurred in recent days, and if we do not put an urgent stop, the violence will continue to escalate. Rosario bleeds. And it does not need a simple tourniquet to get better. It needs a definitive cure. That is why we are going to go to the bottom," said the Minister of Security.

The Government, for its part, will order on Monday the

sending of 150 vehicles, helicopters and communications equipment from the Armed Forces

to support the “saturation operation” of the Gendarmerie, other federal security forces and the Santa Fe police that are being carried out. will be deployed against the new narco offensive.

The murders of taxi drivers in Rosario

On Tuesday night,

Héctor Figueroa

, a taxi driver and father of two daughters, was murdered while driving his vehicle in the Tiro Suizo neighborhood, on the border with Las Delicias, when an alleged passenger

shot him twice in the head

in the vicinity of Flammarion and Lamadrid.

Next to the body they found his cell phone and his wallet with the proceeds.

They did not take any valuable items.

Around 11:30 p.m. this Wednesday, meanwhile, in the front of his vehicle they found

Diego Alejandro Celentano

shot

in the head

.

"Everything has to be in the application, they handed it over to him and the trip came out of the radio, they will have to explain how a trip came out of the app in that area," said Cintia Lares, his widow.

Hours after the crimes, investigators discovered that both men

were killed with the same gun

.

One person was arrested accused of being involved in those episodes.

On Thursday, for his part, an attack was recorded

on a driver of the K trolleybus line.

The driver was shot by a young man who posed as a passenger and shot him in the head.

He remains in serious condition.

The alleged shooter and the person driving the motorcycle on which he escaped were also captured.

The murdered taxi drivers, Diego Alejandro Celentano and Héctor Raúl Figueroa, and the shot trolley bus driver, Marcos Iván Daiola.

That same night, criminals

shot up a police station in the city and set a car on fire

.

The two attacks occurred shortly after 11 p.m., a few minutes apart.

The attackers shot at least six times and there were no injuries, although these people lost their nerves.

Shortly before, in the western area, a taxi was set on fire in Pasco at 5400. The car was parked, in the middle of a strike declared by the union after the murder of two taxi drivers this week.

IS

Source: clarin

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