El periodista Miguel Ángel Montefusco murió tras un violento asalto en su hogar. Los delincuentes, cuyas identidades aún se desconocen, irrumpieron en la casa y amordazaron a su nieto de 12 años antes de golpear brutalmente al anciano. A pesar de entregar todos sus bienes, el hombre fue golpeado hasta fracturarse dos costillas, lo que finalmente le causó la muerte.
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00:00He is a 77-year-old man who had retired, but he was also a colleague of ours.
00:05He was a journalist, he had worked as an editorial coordinator in El Cronista, in El Multimedio.
00:11Miguel Ángel Montefusco, a 77-year-old man, you can imagine,
00:16all his life working to enjoy his grandchildren, a new life.
00:21Here he lived, in Turdera. This is Turdera, a beautiful place in Lomas de Zamora,
00:27but it is also a place of insecurity.
00:29These places, which are beautiful, middle class,
00:32are now threatened by the issue of insecurity.
00:35This happened 11 days ago, but as a result of the beatings
00:41that were given to this poor grandfather, he died yesterday, precisely.
00:46Where he lived here, for a long time, he was a man from the neighborhood,
00:49but also, Cata, a man who is noted for his solidarity,
00:54for his companionship, because he accompanied not only his family,
00:59but also the children, he participated in several clubs in the area.
01:03A great guy, from what you say, he is a great guy.
01:06For reasons that still remain to be established,
01:10the three criminals entered through this door.
01:13Perhaps the man got confused, believing that some of his grandchildren were coming,
01:17he opened the door, that they were coming from school.
01:20He was with one of his grandchildren inside, 12 years old, who was sleeping.
01:25The criminals entered, they gagged the 12-year-old boy, Catalina.
01:29You can imagine that he is a 12-year-old boy.
01:32They don't care about anything, they gagged him,
01:36they threatened him, they left him in a corner,
01:38they went up to the man's room and there,
01:43because the man gave him everything, he didn't want anything to happen to his grandson.
01:46He gave him money, appliances, everything he had at hand,
01:50they ground him to the point that they fractured two ribs,
01:54that punctured his lung, he had 11 days in agony,
01:57and unfortunately, yesterday he died.
01:59It's terrible.
02:00An atrocious fact, because of the violence, Catalina,
02:04because of the violence that these criminals exercise,
02:07who not only steal, but also kill.
02:11And imagine, this 12-year-old boy now,
02:14I don't know if he saw his grandfather die,
02:17but obviously he was at the scene where they killed his grandfather.
02:22Now, it's terrible what Fabian said, because it's not enough.
02:27There was a boy, you say, he didn't resist, he gave them everything,
02:30because he knew how to move so that he wouldn't do anything to them,
02:34and the criminals and murderers didn't care.
02:38I want to go over with you and Javi who this colleague was,
02:42because he is a very dear colleague, he worked in several media,
02:45and he worked in the closing edition of El Cronista Comercial.
02:48At one point he even received an award, Javi.
02:51Yes, also, because he was, for 30 years,
02:54he was in the youth football of the Workers' Youth there in Tordera,
03:00where, of course, he has been a very recognized man,
03:03a very dear man, as you said there,
03:06also very dear in El Diario El Cronista,
03:10in the last place where he worked until 2022.
03:13Now I'm going to tell you a kind of farewell editorial
03:17that the colleagues of El Diario El Cronista did,
03:20where they said Miguel solved everything,
03:22all the problems that could arise, I'll fix it for you,
03:24excuse me, stay calm, I'll fix it for all the colleagues there.
03:28But let's see the recognition that they have made to the club, right?
03:32About his task there with youth football.
03:35Let's see.
03:37It's good that you also have a, I don't know, you want a guide, right?
03:42Someone who marks the way, outside of sports, right?
03:46Who marks the way as a person.
03:48Because, ultimately, not everyone has the chance, perhaps,
03:51to develop himself as a sportsman professionally,
03:54but we are all people, ultimately, there.
03:57And that is very, very important, very important.
04:00It is a life story, too,
04:03that has a link with sports, with the youngest.
04:06A life story.
04:12I've been at the Toblera Youth Club for almost 30 years,
04:17with youth football.
04:19We have worked with the number of dads
04:23who have passed in all these decades.
04:26Today, luckily, we are very happy
04:28because it is growing day by day.
04:32I don't think it's important
04:34the sports preparation, technique and so on.
04:37But the important thing is also the education, the training.
04:41Because, I always say it,
04:45you win, you lose, you tie.
04:49But everyone has to learn to know how to win,
04:52how to lose, how to tie.
04:55And, above all, we have to recognize
04:58that times have changed.
05:01I have it very clear and we have it very clear here
05:03that this is sports, but above all, social.
05:06And that's why I also have to say
05:08that we thank the municipality.
05:10Now, precisely, I say that, I don't know,
05:14we are very happy to have new teams and jerseys
05:17for the competition.
05:19Dad will never stop playing a kid
05:21because he doesn't pay the fee.
05:23Is that clear?
05:24Like that dad who wants to come and see him
05:26and doesn't have money to enter, he will enter.
05:28This is a very different club.
05:30Let the kid come, I'm satisfied,
05:32I'm happy.
05:33I have the luck that many years ago
05:36I wanted to be a soccer player
05:38and I stayed here and no one moves me here.
06:00Thank you very much.
06:22Miguel was very dear and, unfortunately,
06:25after this fact that Fabián Rubino
06:28Fabián Rubino just told us about his insecurity and violence.
06:32After 11 days of agonizing, he died.
06:37They involved his grandson, they manipulated him.
06:41He didn't resist, but they still killed him.
06:45Fabi, the neighbors have talked to you.
06:47A few days have passed, but we know,
06:49from all the material and all the people who talk about him,
06:52and all the colleagues, that he was a great person and very loved.
06:55I don't know if you had the chance to talk outside the camera
06:59with any of them, to see how they are, what they told you.
07:03Yes, totally.
07:04You know that today we made a report and two women came by
07:07and they also talked.
07:09I tell you, shocked by the way this man died
07:15in the hands of crime.
07:17And what do they say about crime?
07:19The truth is that yesterday we were in Villa Sarmiento,
07:22with Cata and Javier.
07:24And what they say there, they say here.
07:27Everywhere is the same situation.
07:30But it's incredible, isn't it?
07:32Because we go to the West Zone to cover police events
07:36and people tell you the same thing.
07:38One thing, you come here and people tell you the same thing,
07:42that they are afraid to go out, that they look when they enter,
07:44that they look when they leave, the children, the car, the car.
07:48Everywhere the same thing happens.
07:50And this man lived all his life here.
07:53And he was a man, but the flagship of the neighborhood.
07:58Because as he collaborated with the Club Obrero,
08:01Juventud Obrero, he also collaborated with the Alumni Club,
08:04Temperley, which is near here.
08:06He is very well known and very dear.
08:09I read in the networks the goodbyes that many colleagues made to him,
08:14who also said goodbye with so much love,
08:17with so much dedication, with so much camaraderie,
08:19without having known him, let's say, you learn to know him
08:23also by the words, by the letters, the messages of his colleagues,
08:27of his colleagues with whom he lived for so long.
08:30There we have the farewell of the club, Javi.
08:33Juventud Obrero Oficial, with much sadness and pain,
08:35we say goodbye to our dear Miguel Montejusco,
08:38an excellent person and always prepared for and for the club.
08:42We send our condolences and support to the whole family.
08:45When he had received the award, precisely because of his career,
08:48the pride of being from Lomas, which was the motto there,
08:51every time a distinction was given from the municipality.
08:55Now, our colleagues also said goodbye to him,
08:58the chronicler, all the fellow journalists
09:00who were lucky enough to work with Miguel.
09:04Now we are going to see the cover of El Cronista,
09:07from the day after, unfortunately.
09:09This is a simple editorial,
09:12that they put on page 2, down there, there it is.
09:16The trucks don't leave, that's the title.
09:19I'm just going to summarize it,
09:21because he was a person who helped at the time of the trucks.
09:25He said, there were times that were unappealable,
09:28and from his role as coordinator,
09:30the responsibility of the journalists and all the areas of the workshop
09:33to hurry his step, became his nocturnal obsession.
09:36Come on, guys, the trucks are leaving.
09:38It was his war cry.
09:40The materials had to be sent to the printing house,
09:42and if the copies were not ready and packaged on time,
09:45the distributors did not expect it.
09:48His coming and going constantly turned him into a figure
09:51that transcended the corridors of El Cronista,
09:53a newspaper that entered in 1988,
09:56in the old Alcina newsroom, commanded by Raúl Bursaco,
09:59creator of Argentine time.
10:01With the years and the canes, Miguel added tasks,
10:04but he never stopped affecting the warmth of his treatment.
10:06He was the person everyone went to to ask him for a favor,
10:09and even if he had to improvise a solution,
10:12the answer was always the same,
10:14I'll get it for you, I'll get it for you.
10:17All of us who go through this newsroom have one,
10:20ten, hundreds of stories shared with Miguel.
10:22He retired in 2012 because the clock was ticking,
10:25but not his desire.
10:27He remained active until the insecurity of the Conurbano
10:30knocked on the door of his house.
10:32A ruthless jump left him irreparable wounds
10:36that his body could not reverse.
10:38If injustice hurts the departure of a human being
10:41as bright as Miguel, it becomes even harder.
10:44Agustina and Juan Manuel, his children, know this.
10:47They lost someone who was always available to them.
10:50What doesn't leave are the joys and memories
10:53of every day shared.
10:56And this time, the trucks won't leave either.
10:59They will wait for you, Miguel, for you, whatever it takes.
11:03Very hard. Very hard, really.
11:06Fabi told me that while Javi was reading this farewell
11:11from Miguel's chronist colleagues,
11:14a police car was passing through your cell phone.
11:17Something that usually happens,
11:19and that grows mature every time a cell phone happens
11:22after the insecurity.
11:24In these moments they appear,
11:26but when the neighbors need it, they don't, right?
11:29Of course, exactly.
11:31Well, we are precisely close to an outpost,
11:34a police station that is a block and 20 meters away.
11:38But the truth is that crime, I think,
11:41is not fixed in these institutions
11:45and they destroy everything.
11:47Because, of course, they attack where there is no one.
11:50And it was precisely at three in the afternoon
11:53when they attacked this man.
11:55Look, practically at this time.
11:58And adding a little more to what Javier said,
12:01because here a lot of people talk about Miguel Ángel,
12:04or Miguel, as they call him here.
12:06He is a man, for example, who brought the boys from the club
12:09to eat at his house.
12:11He gave them noodles because they said it was good for sports.
12:14When they had to play, they gave them noodles.
12:17And besides, he couldn't see that a little boy didn't have shoes
12:20or didn't have his pair of boots.
12:22He himself put his hand in his pocket
12:24and bought him the boots or the shoes
12:27so that they could play soccer.
12:30We have a note that you made earlier
12:34working in the place with the family.
12:37We listen to it.
12:40Yes, this was on Tuesday, October 22.
12:43We have more or less between 1 and 4 in the afternoon.
12:46They tell me I was working,
12:48that they had come in to steal.
12:50My 12-year-old son was there with my dad.
12:53And well, they came in to steal
12:55and a kind of intrusion.
12:57And well, they started hitting him.
12:59Apparently he had no weapons, nothing.
13:01They were just blows.
13:03But well, they gave him such a beating
13:05that, well, they fractured his ribs
13:08and that caused problems in his lungs.
13:11And well, he beat him and beat him and beat him.
13:13And well, unfortunately, on Saturday he died.
13:15He had retired and we had talked about how lonely he was,
13:18but also the recognition of his companions.
13:20There is no person in all of San Azur
13:24I would dare to say, so as not to say another place,
13:26that is as good as my dad.
13:28The reality is that no one deserves this,
13:31but my dad less.
13:33There is no person who speaks ill of my dad,
13:36who can say something bad about my dad.
13:39He was a guy who dedicated his life to the newspaper,
13:42to the editorial office, he worked in Multimedia America,
13:44he was a screenwriter.
13:46Many, surely, colleagues of yours and companions who are here today
13:48know him.
13:50They called me from everywhere, from all over the country,
13:52from all over the world, talking to my dad.
13:54And in reality nothing surprises me
13:56because I know that the dad I had.
13:58So nothing, basically that's it.
14:00What I ask for today is that, justice.
14:02And your son who told you, how is he?
14:04And my son is here, behind the camera,
14:06and what he tells me is terrible.
14:08And he didn't deserve it because he's 12 years old.
14:10That's the reality.
14:12My dad didn't deserve the beating
14:14and my son didn't deserve to see his grandfather beaten.
14:16I'll put your headphones on for a second,
14:18Agustina, so you can talk to Guillermo Andino,
14:20who is listening.
14:22Hello, Agustina.
14:24Thank you for attending us.
14:26The truth is that we are very sad.
14:28Our parents can die,
14:30not in this way.
14:32Exactly.
14:34So unfair, I mean, the beatings.
14:36Are you listening to what your son saw?
14:38What did he tell you, Agustina?
14:40I listen a lot.
14:42Can you hear me?
14:44No, well, my son told me that
14:46my baby was sleeping
14:48and they woke him up
14:50by grabbing him by the face
14:52and the thieves entered my house.
14:54My dad was upstairs.
14:56And since my son is here,
14:58I don't want to go into details,
15:00but my grandfather had been beaten a lot
15:02and he had heard everything.
15:04Let's see.
15:06The question is,
15:08you enter a private home,
15:10you go for a boot that you want to take.
15:12Why this feat?
15:14I'm going to tell you the version I have.
15:16Since my dad is not here anymore
15:18and my son was sleeping,
15:20it's very difficult.
15:22But what my dad told me,
15:24I have another son who goes to school,
15:26he was beaten at the door
15:28and he thought it was my other son
15:30who came back from school.
15:32And my dad is very confident,
15:34very good, let's say.
15:36He opened the door and they entered.
15:38That's what my dad told me,
15:40the police, at the time.
15:42But really, because I know
15:44that they come back here,
15:46or sometimes we, because we are confident
15:48and because Tordera is a quiet neighborhood,
15:50we leave the door open,
15:52they will have entered.
15:54But those are conjectures or hypotheses
15:56or facts that the police are going to draw.
15:58What draws attention to the Fiscalía,
16:00the UFI 1 that intervenes,
16:02is first the violence with which they were handled.
16:04Unnecessary for the number of people
16:06who were in the house.
16:08The second, what they took,
16:10appliances and a number of dollars,
16:12which they already handled
16:14with a person who was waiting for them
16:16in a car outside.
16:18What they tell me is that it is a matter of hours.
16:20There would be progress in that sense.
16:22Do you have communication
16:24with the Fiscalía to follow up?
16:26Yes, the truth is that the Fiscalía
16:28communicates with me, everything.
16:30The truth is that from Saturday to today
16:32I am focused on what is the funeral
16:34and burial of my father.
16:36So it's like, honestly,
16:38my cell phone explodes,
16:40that is, this weekend I dedicated it
16:42to say goodbye to him as he deserves.
16:44So I know there are many things.
16:46The prosecutor told me
16:48that they were there.
16:50What do you know about the criminals?
16:54Fabi, can you hear me?
16:56Look, about the criminals,
16:58at the moment, yes.
17:00At the moment, nothing at all.
17:02The family,
17:04which is our contact base,
17:06has no information
17:08or news.
17:10That's why I'm telling you
17:12that at the moment nothing is known.
17:14Are there no security cameras in the area
17:16that have recorded any movement?
17:18There are cameras.
17:20For example, this club
17:22has cameras.
17:24We don't know if it works.
17:26There are private cameras,
17:28but that will surely be part
17:30of the investigation,
17:32but at the moment there is nothing.
17:34And you know the amount of people
17:36who are watching you.
17:38I received a message
17:40from a colleague, Javier Lozano,
17:42who tells me,
17:44I'm watching you.
17:46I was stunned.
17:48Great guy.
17:50I was with him in Argentine time.
17:52Tremendous.
17:54People are finding out
17:56because they didn't know.
17:58Of course, they are finding out
18:00what happened to him.
18:02He is a man who will surely
18:04be arrested and killed.
18:06Because they are murderers,
18:08not just thieves.
18:10They also committed a similar
18:12act near that place.
18:14So they were coming to commit
18:16another act?
18:18Actually, they committed it
18:20a few days before.
18:22That's why they are after
18:24these murderers,
18:26who unnecessarily beat him.
18:28They broke his rib,
18:30pierced his lung,
18:32and he died
18:34as a result of this.
18:36Well, we join
18:38Fabi and Javi
18:40at the request of justice
18:42of the family,
18:44of all your loved ones,
18:46who are many,
18:48because he was a great person,
18:50who quickly find the criminals,
18:52who are murderers,
18:54as you both say.
18:56Thank you, Fabi and Javi.