Lucas Gonzalez died this Thursday at the age of 17, killed by City Police officers. They smashed the head of two bullets when he returned with three friends in a car from the Barracas Central club, where he played in the lower divisions. “It was easy trigger“, sentenced his mother to deny the initial version of the Buenos Aires force, which had unofficially installed that the four boys had been intercepted in”suspicious attitude” for him Senior Officer Fabián López, Officer José Nievas and Inspector Gabriel Isassi.
The effective They operated in civilian clothes and in an unofficial vehicle, so the boys believed that they wanted to rob them and accelerated, according to their testimonies. “They were shot to killLucas’s family denounced. The evidence raises a key question: what does a civilian brigade, without identification, shooting four boys who come out to play ball?
“They shot my friend”
“My nephew just passed away. I ask you now to respect the family in this sad moment. ” 17.30 Thursday, Emanuel, Lucas’s uncle, communicated the news to the press at the doors of El Cruce Hospital in Florencio Varela. Lucas had arrived at that health center in the early hours of Thursday. Since 9:30 on Wednesday, when it was shot at the intersection of Alvarado and Perdriel, Barracas, had been interned in the Hospital Penna. The family reported mistreatment by the security agents who were at the health center: they told them that Lucas was a criminal. The version is consistent with a police audio that you accessed Page 12: “A wounded by a firearm from the robbers, he fell to the hospital, “says an agent.
Major Officer López, Officer Nievas, and Inspector Isassi, who was in charge of the group, They were reviewing at the Barracas 4D Police Station. The three were separated from the force and indicted.
On Thursday night, Alejandro Cilleruelo, in charge of Juvenile Court No. 4, ordered the arrests of López, Nievas and Isassi, the three from the Barracas 4D Police Station. The same judge separated the City Police from the investigation and left the expert reports in charge of the Federal Police. They hijacked the three statutory weapons, pods served 9 millimeters, and they investigate which weapon (s) the bullets came from. In those hours, also, the Buenos Aires Minister of Security, Marcelo D’Alessandro, presented the judge with a brief in which he required “urgent measures” regarding the three policemen to “avoid any obstruction of the investigation”
Of the three investigated, at least one had a curious background: In 2016 Isassi was part of a delegation of Buenos Aires police arriving in Río Gallegos supposedly out for a walk, but armed with at least una Glock, according Cristina Fernández de Kirchner denounced then, shortly after it appeared the door of Nestor Kirchner’s father’s house was violated.
Lucas lived in Varela and on Wednesday morning he left with his three friends for Barracas. I was going to accompany a test that was carried out in the lower divisions of Barracas Central. He, already a club player, excited about the possible promotion of the team (although he was a fan of Defense and Justice), every day he went to train in public transport, but this Wednesday traveled in the car of one of his friends. Upon leaving the club, rebuild the family from the story of the three survivors, the friends They got in the Volkswagen Suran and stopped to buy a juice. A few blocks after restarting, they were crossed by a Nisan Tiida, without official identification. On board were the three policemen dressed in civilian clothes, so the boys they thought they were thieves and sped up.
“When we crossed the vehicle to force them to stop, the companion wields a firearm, collides with the driver and there the procedure continues “, says one of the policemen in another audio, with which initially the Police tried to establish that the boys were in “suspicious attitude“. The” procedure “was to shoot the car directly to the glasses.
The “firearm” that the police officers and the boys denied having was a lie. “The skills began and at eight o’clock they found a plastic gun“said Emanuel, who denounced that the object was planted by the police force. The father of the boy who was driving, meanwhile, said that, minutes after the shooting (the car had four bullets), your son called you to tell you what happened. “Daddy, they wanted to rob me and they shot my friend“he said, still believing it was an assault.
The three friends looked for other policemen to ask for help: the troops detained them. While Lucas was fighting for his life and López, Nievas and Isassi were still free, his three friends they were at the Inchausti Institute. It was not until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, 24 hours after the shooting, that they were released in the context of a case labeled “illegal investigation.” “That there is no more Lucas. There will not be because we are going to be in charge of clarifying all things. We are not afraid of anyone“said Mario, Lucas’s father, late Thursday night.
“It was trigger easy”
“From the first moment we made ourselves available to Justice“said the Buenos Aires Minister of Justice and Security, Marcelo D’alessandro, at a press conference at 7.30pm on Thursday, 34 hours after the events occurred. It was the first official voice to speak. On Wednesday, no representative of the GCBA denied the version installed by the police force. While the minister spoke, on his Twitter account, one of his latest publications It was celebrating the fifth anniversary of the creation of the City Police, whose celebration – later suspended – was to take place last night at the Colón Theater.
“It was a bad performance by police personnel“, indicated in turn the head of the Buenos Aires Police, Gabriel Berard, brandishing the black sheep version. “We will be inflexible with police officers who act outside the law, “the head of government reaffirmed on his Twitter account. Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
“Enough of the easy trigger. Not a kid less”Answered at the same time one of the posters that were raised in front of the fenced 4D Police Station. There, friends, family, neighbors and fellow club members asked for justice for Lucas. The news of the boy’s death had found them in Vélez Sarsfield and Iriarte, where the concentration began, the place where the three policemen began to chase the boys.
“They look at you badly when you walk, they want to stop you, they ask you for a document because of the way you dress. With or without a uniform they look at you badly for having a visor“, said a colleague of Lucas de Barracas Central, about the daily operation of the police in the southern part of the City. At the press conference, when asked about the modus operandi of the three agents, D’alessandro himself confirmed that it was a brigade that operated in civilian clothes and without identification. “Many times they do prevention tasks,” he argued, without elaborating.
Also in Varela, in front of the Hospital, from early in the morning neighbors and relatives of the young man gathered. “We want Justice for Lucas, killed by this damn police. Enough Argentina. Let us realize that this does not have to happen anymore. It has to end, “said Emanuel when giving the news of the death of his nephew. Hours before, early in the morning, when the version of the Police still ran as true, the broken voice of Cinthia, Lucas’s mother, had sentenced : “It was easy trigger“.” The Police know very well what they did and I am not going to stop, I swear to you that I’m not going to stop until this comes out “he added.
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