A 63-year-old veterinarian
died of a heart attack after suffering enormous anguish after being assaulted, tied up and threatened two days earlier
by two criminals in her villa in City Bell, in La Plata. The woman had left a message telling about the robbery and she even gave an interview where she recounted everything that happened in the criminal act. There was outrage from family members and neighbors about the situation and the police actions.
Emilia Merlo, a much-loved veterinarian
in the area, was on Good Friday in a house she rented on 28th and 476th streets to carry out her activity. There, at night, she went out to feed the cats that she was taking care of and she found two criminals who had crossed the fence on the side of the house.
According to what she herself said in a conversation with
El Día
, one of the thieves
grabbed her from behind and covered her mouth so she wouldn't scream, telling her to stay still
and that nothing was going to happen to her. At that moment it was she when she saw the second offender. According to her assessment, they were between 30 and 35 years old, although the youngest "was the bravest."
"One of them was hooded and the other was not. They made me enter with them and in the living room
they tied my hands
with the strips of a kitchen apron, my feet with a sole and
they gagged me
with a scarf," he said.
And he continued: "Then
they made me lie face down
, always in the living room, covering me with a blanket." He also revealed that both of them told him that they had knives on their waists, but that neither of them took out weapons during the entire robbery, although
the younger one told him that he was going to cut off his head
if he didn't pay attention.
After the psychological abuse, the criminals - they did not find any cash in the entire house - left him a knife on the table and instructed him to use it to untie himself when he heard that they had already left.
Furthermore, Emilia assured that she believed
they were the same criminals who entered the same house a year ago
one day when she was not there. "As they searched the entire house and didn't find any cash, one of them told me
'how can it be if you have a Honda Biz motorcycle'
. It's a motorcycle that I no longer have, but that these guys tried to steal from me when they broke in here last time. It seems that they thought that this time they were going to be able to take her."
Finally, the thieves managed to take Emilia's cell phone, a wallet where there was only personal documentation and all the keys, those to her house and her car. Furthermore, before leaving the property, one of the criminals forced the woman to access her Mercado Pago account to transfer the money she had there,
about 251 thousand pesos
. They also took her credit and debit cards.
Once the robbery happened, the woman managed to call the police and filed a report at the 10th police station. But the traumatic situation did not stop there for her.
After the robbery, the woman
remained in a state of shock for several hours and began to feel chest pains
, according to the reconstruction made by Emilia's relatives. That's why she was taken to the hospital, but the doctors couldn't do anything, as
she went into massive arrest and finally she died.
The post on networks that the woman made after the robbery and hours before dying of a heart attack.
On Sunday, the day she began to feel bad, the woman had left a message on social media explaining what had happened in the robbery and thanking her for not having been murdered: "I'm very bad. Last night two guys robbed me, mistreated me "They left me tied and gagged inside. They took my cell phone. But they were looking for more.
Anyway... they didn't kill me, thank God.
I don't have a cell phone, it's disabled until the problem is solved..."
The messages from his Facebook friends did not wait, many of them offering their help after the bad moment he experienced. Until the tone of the greetings began to change: "How sad, may the family rest in peace and strength."
The story of the neighbors, outraged by the actions of the Police
Neighbors of the block where the robbery occurred said that the first patrol car that came to help her could not take her to the hospital because
he did not have gas
. They also said that they were offered to pay for the fuel to transport it, but that they received the response that "they didn't even have enough money to get to the station." Then, her own neighbors were the ones who put her in a car and took her away.
They also revealed that they discovered right there that the Mercado Pago transfer had been made to a woman and that she was the partner of one of the criminals who entered the house. Given that, Emilia herself would have identified him and reported him to the police present, but "they told her that they could not do anything with that information."
And that was not all. Because the woman also had the GPS activated on the cell phone that the thieves took and even she had the exact address of the place where the phone was after the robbery. But from the Police - the neighbors reproached in dialogue with El Día - they gave the same answer:
"They couldn't do anything with that information either."