The police found a charred and dismembered body in a precarious structure on Luis Pasteur and Terencio streets in the Peñarol neighborhood this Wednesday morning, according to a police report to which he agreed The Observer.
Its about fourth homicide in the last 48 hours in the area and the ninth in the year. In all of 2021, 10 homicides were recorded in the Peñarol neighborhood.
The authorities received a call from a user who protested the burning of a pasture in a vacant field that is next to the patio of his house. Upon arrival, around 5 in the morning, the policemen They found a charred and dismembered body in a 2 meter by 2 meter structure. Two of the three bodies found early Tuesday morning were also semi-burned.
Still the sex of the victim could not be identified. Personnel from the 8th Section of Montevideo works at the scene.
The escalation in homicides and violence is causing concern in the government and the Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, will meet this Wednesday with President Luis Lacale Pou on this issue.
Heber assured in a press conference this Tuesday that the violence is due to “a very tough dispute over territory” between “drug gangs”.
The director of Coexistence and Citizen Security, Santiago González, meanwhile, indicated in a press conference held on Monday that the Ministry recognize these “bad days for homicides” and will work “to change it.” “The sun with a finger should not and cannot be covered. We take charge of what happens for better and for worse”added the director of Coexistence.
Violence
On Tuesday, three murders occurred in the same neighborhood: Around 1 a.m. that day a 56-year-old man was shot to death. Then, at 3:47 a.m., the homicide of two men who were semi-calcined near the train tracks that pass through the neighborhood, near the corner of Camino Edison and Fulton, a few blocks from what happened this Wednesday.
Over the course of 2022 there were another five homicides in the area, two in January, one in March and another two in April. With a total of nine homicides, the neighborhood suffered in just over five months only one homicide less than the ten of 2021. In 2020 there had been six and in 2019 there were 15.
Nationwide, there are 15 homicides reported since Monday, May 2of which nine were in Montevideo, three in Canelones, two in Maldonado and one in Salto.
