Argentinian Security Minister Patricia Bullrich thanked Peruvian authorities for detaining two people in connection with the femicide, which has shocked Argentina since it was discovered last week, in a statement posted on X late on Tuesday.
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The Peruvian National Police did a fantastic job and worked together to free the two fugitives from the triple murder, according to Bullrich.
Little J, a 20-year-old Peruvian national, was detained 45 miles (72 kilometers) south of Lima, Peru’s capital. In Buenos Aires’ Zavaleta neighborhood, he allegedly runs a drug gang.
Matias Ozorio, who is regarded as the main suspect’s right-hand man, was also detained in Peru.
Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo, 20, and Lara Gutierrez, 15, were found buried in a house’s garden in the southern suburbs of Argentina’s capital last Wednesday. Five days prior, they had vanished.
The trio were tortured and assassinated on a group of 45 people on a closed social media platform, according to Buenos Aires security minister Javier Alonso, who added that the video was meant as a “warning” about an alleged drug theft.
A suspect in the case was interrogated, according to Alonso, and the footage was made public.
On Saturday, thousands of Argentinians took to the streets of Buenos Aires to demand justice for the victims and for action from President Javier Milei’s government to combat the country’s growing “narco” influence.
The three victims’ daughters Brenda and Leonel del Castillo, whose daughter Brenda was one of the three victims, said, “Women must be protected more than ever.” According to the AFP news agency, he claimed that because of the severe form of torture, he had been unable to identify her body.
Demonstrators carried banners emblazoned with the words “It was a narco-femicide”! and “Our lives are not disposable,” .
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Source: Aljazeera
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