A heartbreaking shout of “Jus-ti-cia” toured on Saturday all the great cities of Argentina. Thousands of people took to the streets to repudiate the triple feminicide of Lara Gutiérrez, 15, and the premiums Brenda del Castillo and Morena Verri, 20, and demand that all those responsible will be imprisoned. Argentina is not accustomed to crimes perpetrated with as much viciousness as the one that ended the lives of these three young people. On September 19 they were tortured to blows and blank until death. Everything was recorded and broadcast live to more than 40 members of the alleged narco band that is accused of having perpetrated the murders.
The relatives of the victims headed a march in which a climate of sadness and bewilderment was breathed. “I need to know the truth. I need a truth for my son, for my daughter -in -law, for my other daughter,” Antonio, the grandfather of Brenda and Morena, said before the cameras. “Morena was a spark and Brenda was very affectionate,” he remembered them in front of the Argentine Congress. Antonio said that “the entire country is shockeado With what happened ”and thanked the support of the thousands of people marched from the Plaza de Mayo to the Legislative building.
“I thank all of you, the whole neighborhood, all our neighbors who are present today,” said another relative before having to interrupt the speech for emotion. “They are not alone, we are with you. Force,” the protesters encouraged them.
Lara, Brenda and Morena left their homes on Friday night towards an alleged party that was actually a trap. They rose to a van that took them to a house in Florencio Varela, on the southern periphery of Buenos Aires, from which they did not come out alive. After five days of search, the police found their bodies buried in the garden, with multiple signs of blows and cuts. Lara was cut the five fingers of one hand and part of the ear before slaughtering it. Brenda was killed by a strong blow to the head and before tortured her sinking a knife repeatedly in the body. MORENA was beaten in the face before breaking her neck. The preliminary results of the autopsies showed that much of the injuries were caused in life.
International capture request
So far there are 12 arrested for triple feminicide. Four were arrested Wednesday for their relationship with the house where the crime was committed. This is Andrés Parra, Miguel Villanueva Silva, Celeste González Guerrero and Daniela Ibarra, who are charged with “Homicide qualified for having been committed with the premeditated contest of two or more people, for being committed by alevosía and cruelty and for being committed by a man against a woman through gender violence.” One of them told the police that they killed them because one of them had stolen five kilos of cocaine to a narco capo, a hypothesis to be confirmed.
The other eight detainees were arrested in a misery town in Buenos Aires, accused of integrating the organization that committed crimes. Police seek the alleged intellectual author, a Peruvian drug trafficker known as little J and on which an international arrest warrant weighs, and two hitmen.
Narcocriminal Bands in Buenos Aires
Triple feminicide has shown the cruelty with which narcocriminal organizations act and how roots have already thrown in Buenos Aires and their metropolitan area. For Esteban Rodríguez Alzueta, researcher at the National University of Quilmes, these are “new more rustic bands, with another arrogance and other expectations, which are made and feel through excessive use of violence.” According to Rodríguez Alzueta, these bands use violence “to send a message to the community of neighbors where they settle or the other groups with which they can have some rivalry; or to inspire fear or have fun for a while.” Scenes that had only been seen in the city of Rosario, now break into the most populous area in the country.
One of the most listened to songs on Saturday accused police and judges of being complicit in criminals. “The most humble neighborhoods today handle drug trafficking with police complicity, it is like that,” says Vanina, owner of a popular dining room in the Buenos Aires city of Moreno who prefers not to give her last name. “They want to stigmatize the victims saying that they wanted easy money or that they were prostitutes as if that is why they were well killing them, without even knowing what life is like in our neighborhoods, the few options that are given to the kids to live, to survive,” adds Vanina.
Rodríguez Alzueta warns that “if the State wants to prevent violence from being, some type of regulation is needed.” This investigator, author of the Podcast Mundo Transa, points out that today the police is “the invisible hand of criminal economies “, but there is a risk that they grow too much, or, on the contrary, they are atomized and violence triggers.
The relatives of the victims claim that the cause passes to the federal jurisdiction because it is a crime that points to a narcocriminal network. “They are wanting to cover up someone,” Brenda’s father hinted at this Saturday in the absence of response to that request.
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