A few thousand people demonstrated, on Saturday, September 27, in the center of Buenos Aires to claim justice and denounce the feminicides after the murder in sordid conditions this week of two young women and a teenager, a case at the alleged link with the narcotrafic, noted the Agency France-Presse (AFP).
Several members of the families of victims, united behind a banner bearing the first names of young women «Lara, Brenda, Morena» And signs in their effigy have taken the lead in the procession, reinforced by several radical left -wing organizations, which, from the Place de Mai, had to rally the Parliament.
The bodies of Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo, two 20 -year -old cousins, and Lara Gutiérrez, 15, were found on Wednesday September 24, buried near a house in the big southern suburbs of Buenos Aires, five days after their disappearance. According to the Minister of Provincial Security, Javier Alonso, they were trapped, believing to go to a party, and suffered before being killed a torture session that would have seen 45 people members of a private account on Instagram, apparently to make an example in a criminal group.
A call for mobilization against gender violence
“We must protect women. That never happens again “said shortly before the demonstration to journalists, Leonel Del Castillo, Brenda’s father, very moved. He said he had “Not to recognize” his daughter’s body, due to the abuse suffered. “It was a narco-feminicide!” »», “Our lives are not disposable!” »», “We love each other!” »»could we read on signs and banners, in the event, of very relative magnitude compared to recurring social mobilizations in Buenos Aires.
The march had been summoned by the influential organization nor an una Menos (“not one less”), which fights against gender violence, in the wake of the discovery, Wednesday, of the triple female, which occurred between Friday evening and Saturday September 20 in the morning.
A fifth suspect, suspected of having provided logistical support with a car, was arrested on Friday September 26 in Bolivia near the Argentine border, after the arrest on Wednesday September 24 of two men and two women who were placed in pre -trial detention. Two other young men, including a 20 -year -old Peruvian suspected of being the sponsor, are actively sought.
