A
suspect in the bloody crime of chef Nicolás Tapia Páez in his
Pinamar
apartment
was identified this Wednesday. This is a man who was detected by a security camera in the vicinity of the house where the murder occurred and who was
recognized by a merchant in the area
, who said that he served him at his kiosk, although at least until the last day he did not. had given a statement.
The kiosk owner distinguished him because in the images released by the local Security Secretariat the subject, who according to his calculations "
would be between 42 and 45 years old
," was dressed in the light blue and blue jacket with which
he went in to buy two loose cigarettes at his business
. Regarding that particular garment, he said that it caught his attention because “it was very pretty” while he clarified that “it didn't have a drop of blood.”
“(The suspect) was very calm.
I know him and I saw him almost every day
because the place of the incident is the everyday path that I take from my house, with the motorcycle,” admitted Hugo Ordóñez, the merchant in question, in statements to
Telpintv
.
He then insisted that he saw “a lot of times” the young man who was under the scrutiny of the Prosecutor's Office as the alleged perpetrator of the incident. “
I took care of cars on the Zamba block. But I never saw him with Nicolás
,” Ordóñez said.
“I never spoke with the suspect, but many times he sat on the bench at the door of my kiosk to listen to national rock, which I play. I had no dialogue with him,” added the kiosk owner, who also pointed out that he knew the chef who was stabbed to death because he was going to buy from his store, but that “I didn't know anything about his life.”
A businessman from Pinamar said he saw the suspect in the chef's crime “a lot of times,” but “never” with the victim.
Eduardo Nicolás Tapia Páez, who worked at the Zentiva hotel, was found dead on Monday night in an apartment located at the intersection of De la Sirena and Del Caracol streets, near Bunge and El Mar, a central beach in Pina Mar.
The authorities' main hypothesis is that it is a crime of passion. The police found no missing persons in the home, so the version of a robbery was ruled out.
According to the local newspaper
Pinamar a Diario
, neighbors heard an argument and a request for help in the morning. Around 6 p.m., finally, his roommate found him dead with 40 stab wounds in his neck.
Who was the cook murdered in Pinamar
Nicolás Páez was a renowned chef from the city of Pinamar who came to the city to work in the summer. He had been repeating that swallow modality since 2020.
Unlike previous years, the 36-year-old man had planned to stay all year in the spa town, since he had left cash in the restaurant at the Hotel Zentiva. It is one of the top gastronomic establishments in Pinamar, in Bunge and De las Totoras, about 2 kilometers from the beach and next to the penultimate roundabout exiting Route 11.
She was in a relationship with a man and shared the apartment with a 28-year-old woman. He had reached an agreement with her: that Nicolás meet her partner when he left him alone in the building.
The case left the neighbors, who knew Nicolás, and the regulars of the Zentiva Hotel, who have good memories of him for his cordiality, dismayed.
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