The former mayor of Cerro Largo Diego Saravia was discharged this Wednesday after being attacked on Monday in his rural settlement. Saravia, 73 years old and father of the late Villanueva Saravia, He was shot with a rifle that hit him in the chest area, as he told reporters.
“He hit me here, on the nipple. I jumped and locked him (the door to the criminal), because if he doesn’t continue, “he said.
The producer was finishing his fieldwork around 4:00 p.m. when he parked his quad, put his rifle aside, and noticed that the door to his shed was open. At first, he presumed that it had been his mistake. However, when sitting down to eat he was surprised by a delinquent who took his weapon, in the old mansion where he lived. “Suddenly I felt like a balloon burst and I was like, ‘What? This is rare’. (…) I had a closed door, I went and opened it to look, and a person laid the rifle on me,” he said.
“Luckily the rifle was mine and it was shot by shot. If it was semi-automatic, it didn’t tell the story.”he added.
Saravia traveled in his vehicle to the Camcel mutual insurance company, where he got off at his own expense and entered to be treated by the doctors. At that point he had noticed a significant loss of blood in his body.
This Tuesday he shared a message for his friends through social networks: “I’m zero kilometer”wrote.
The wounds were superficial and Saravia, who took over as mayor of Cerro Largo after the death of his son in December 1999 until July 2000, It is out of danger.
On Monday, the first suspect was captured, a 22-year-old man trapped in a car with characteristics similar to the one that had been seen in the area.
The 2nd Shift Prosecutor’s Office, in charge of the case, ordered the search of four more houses in the town of Santa Clara on Tuesday, and five more implicated, two women and three men, were captured in them.
Two firearms, narcotic substances and “a significant sum of money” were seized from these people, the Ministry of the Interior reported, which does not rule out that these people may be linked to other criminal acts that occurred in Cerro Largo.
So far there are seven people detained, including two women who are being investigated for the fact.
