Lázaro Victor Sotacuro, Bolivian citizen and with Argentine ID for foreigners, had crossed from La Quiaca to Villazón, according to preliminary reports. The union He would be the owner of one of the cars involved in the disappearance of Brenda, Morena and Lara, The three young people who lost their lives on September 19.
Triple feminicide
According to the publication of some Argentine media, the torture and murder of these three young people, one of them teenager, was already a terrible enough news. But what really caused shock in Argentina was that drug traffickers accused of carrying out the murders They issued their crime on social networks.
Last Friday, women were taken to a house outside Buenos Aires where their torture and murder were broadcast in a private broadcast on Instagram to an audience of about 45 people, according to regional authorities. The victims were identified as Brenda del Castillo, 20, Morena Verdi, 20, and Lara Gutiérrez, 15.
Police believe that an international drug trafficking organization was behind the crime, which, according to the authorities, intended to convey a message after the Theft of a small drug package, apparently by one of the victims.
A Bolivian involved
Sotacuro, the fifth arrested for the triple crime of Florencio Varela, is indicated as the driver who supported the truck in which Brenda, Morena and Lara were transferred.
The arrest It was announced on Friday night by the Minister of Security of the Nation, Patricia Bullrich. Later, the secretary of that portfolio, Alejandra Monteoliva, said that Sotacuro would be “owner of one of the vehicles” who participated in the disappearance of the three girls from La Matanza, and that he had managed to cross in the last hours from the quiaca to Villazón, in Bolivia.
The union had fled to the Argentine. Police and Gendarmes participated in the search, who set up controls on national, provincial routes and border crossings of Jujuy, under the suspicion that the fugitives tried to flee to Bolivia.
When confirmed that they were not in Argentine territory, the collaboration of the National Police of Villazón was requested, with whom joint tasks were carried out. Fruit of that coordinated work, this Friday they managed to locate and detain Sotacuro in a lodging of the Bolivian city.
While the other four detainees are Miguel Ángel Villanueva, 27, Daniela Ibarra (19), Maximiliano Parra (18) and Magalí Celeste González (28), charged with aggravated homicide.
According to the investigators, these four include torture prior to the murders, in a case that has caused great shock in Argentina, they refused to declare Thursday and were transferred to the Melchor Romero prison, in the province of Buenos Aires.
