The society Argentina receives 2024 shocked by several crimes that occurred on a tragic New Year’s weekend, in which at least five people died under violent circumstances.
On Saturday, in Chascomús (province of Buenos Aires), a young agent of the Provincial Police would have ended the life of his father, Diego Reddy; his wife, Maria Eugenia Suarezand his little 12-year-old son and half-brother of the alleged murderer, Ignacio Reddy.
Initially, the suspect, Francisco Reddywould have shot the woman and the child to death, hitting them with the butt of his gun, police sources reported.
The doctors managed to reach the scene of the crime when they were alerted by the administrator of the property where the murders were committed.
To the father, who remained missing and he was the first suspect for the agents, they found him lifeless hours later among some grasslands.
One day later, in the midst of celebrations for the New Yearanother violent death took place on the coastal promenade of the tourist town of Holy Teresita (province of Buenos Aires).
A group of young people punched and kicked an 18-year-old young man, Tomas Tello Ferreirabefore stabbing him in the chest with a knife.
Badly injured, tello He was taken by ambulance to Saint Therese Hospitalwhere he finally died.
So far, the Police have arrested nine young people involved in a crime reminiscent of the murder of Fernando Baez Sosadied in January 2020 in the also tourist Villa Gesell.
The same day, in the city of The Silver (capital of the province of Buenos Aires), the teenager Isaiah Cordoba14 years old, was murdered by a shot to the head by a 27-year-old man when he was returning home from the traditional celebration of the ‘burning of dolls‘.
According to police sources, the incident took place after a fight between several youth groups.
Before the La Plata Police could reach the home of the suspect, family and friends of the victim They burned the house of the alleged murderer.
Insecurity is one of the main problems for Argentines, mainly in the most populated areas of the South American country: the surroundings of the capital, Buenos Airesand the city of rosary beadsimmersed in a serious citizen crisis due to drug trafficking.
The new Executive of Argentinachaired by Javier Mileihas announced very tough measures against crime, while it has already begun to make actions more flexible “in self defense” of the citizen.
