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Un delivery muerto, una mafia en la mira.
Un delivery muerto, una mafia en la mira.
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00:00Today was a day of fury in Moreno, and many times we have told
00:05episodes of insecurity in Moreno, without going any further, a week ago, a policeman at night
00:11is taking his daughter on the motorcycle, another motorcycle crosses him, the policeman responds from the floor and ends up
00:17killing a 15-year-old young man who was trying to pull out a gun, in truth, he was trying to pull out a gun, he had just
00:23stolen Coca-Cola and fiambre from another person who was walking down the street, very, very marginal crimes,
00:29but that can ruin anyone's life, but in this case, what seemed to be one more episode of
00:36insecurity revealed a quite mafioso plot behind it. How was the story that derives from this day
00:44of fury and with the fight there against the municipality of Moreno? First, it seemed that he was a little crazy,
00:51yesterday we told you the story of a woman who, for a guy, tells nothing, stabs her
00:57and kills her in the silver, it seemed that it was a similar episode, a man with a knife out of nowhere
01:02begins to stab a street vendor, it seemed that, one more violent, that man that we are showing you
01:08on the screen, a 38-year-old man who should have been arrested, Lucas Benitez, this man
01:17stabs a street vendor in a square in Moreno, that situation derives from the fact that a person
01:26who sees the scene intervenes and wants to stop him, there he is, the one who precedes him is called Lucas Aguilar,
01:34he is a boy who did delivery, and see how, thinking that he was a common thief,
01:43the man,
01:46this former convict, Lucas Benitez, ends up stabbing Lucas Aguilar, this young man, Lucas Aguilar,
01:54a boy who did delivery, who had given an interview to another media outlet a day ago, explaining the insecurity in Morón,
02:04but this is what happened, and up to here we saw it in the morning, early in America's Morning News,
02:10in Luciana, later in the informative continuity of 24, up to there was the information,
02:16but with the rush of the afternoon, when the quarrel of the neighbors against the municipality of Moreno was known,
02:22we realized that there was something else, and what was the other thing? That there was a previous threat,
02:28there is an audio with a previous threat to the street vendor, called Leonardo Merollo,
02:35who minimizes it, but now the justice should investigate it, where it is in a tone of sordidness,
02:41he says, well, you're going to have a surprise, I don't know, I don't know how much,
02:44and then there, that's why the quarrel of some distributors and some street vendors is understood,
02:51that they are going to throw stones at the municipality, because they believe, and Leonardo Merollo also believes it,
02:57who is the first stabbed, that Lucas Benítez was hired by someone to stab him,
03:03who thought he had killed him, that he thought he had killed him, and that Lucas Aguilar got in the way,
03:10chasing whom he thought was a thief, and who was actually possibly a hired killer.
03:19That is why there is a quarrel against the municipality, because it is suspected that
03:24there is something to do, a plot of pointers or people,
03:28that authorizes street vendors in a square that is near the Moreno station, where Gabriel Prosperi is.
03:39And so the windows of this historic facade were left in this communal building,
03:44rolling after this day of fury.
03:48This place became a real battlefield.
03:51On one side, the infantry of the police of the province of Buenos Aires,
03:55agents and employees of the different sectionals of the Moreno police stations,
04:02and on the other side, on the street and the Moreno square, which is in front of this communal building,
04:08dozens of people, many of them street vendors,
04:11who came to claim justice, mainly for Lucas, for his partner, so vilely murdered.
04:18Of course, this circumstance gave rise to that battle,
04:21which resulted in 18 detainees and several wounded, including policemen,
04:27who were taken to the public hospital in Moreno.
04:30But then another situation occurred, which produced the anger of the protesters here,
04:36and that is that the motorcycles of those street vendors who came to claim justice
04:41and to demonstrate in front of the communal palace, were left on this sidewalk.
04:46And they had the idea, the municipal authorities, to bring tow trucks to take those motorcycles
04:53to a tax deposit in front of the faces of the demonstrators.
04:58So, what did the people say in the midst of that frenzy of anger?
05:02They have killed a free man.
05:04We suffer from insecurity, they rob us, they take out the motorcycles with which we have to work.
05:11The little they have to work with, with those motorcycles with which they go out to work every day,
05:16who were here on this sidewalk, because they were demonstrating instead of earning their living,
05:23those motorcycles were being taken away, and obviously it will take many days
05:27for them to walk through these streets of Moreno again, with their owners up there,
05:35for the distribution of food, of drinks, of what they distribute.
05:39That is why there was a whole afternoon of tension here,
05:42which has as a vestige this façade, broken, with the glass destroyed,
05:48with civil defense patrols destroyed, also stoned,
05:52with, I reiterate, 18 detainees and several wounded.
05:56A battlefield, a day of fury after a bloodbath, right?
06:01We have to wait for a good investigation,
06:04not that there is a political plot of pointers behind Luis Benítez,
06:10because Luis Benítez was a guy with an apron who could spend the whole afternoon
06:14reading this 38-year-old man who goes to the stilt-style with a knife
06:18and stabs the street vendor, who was not just a street vendor,
06:23he was someone, Leonardo Meroyo, who had a position,
06:27and in turn, he gave merchandise to several street vendors
06:31who went with trays offering alfajores and things,
06:35to the people who waited in a group to be transborded,
06:38after having taken, after having gotten off the train.
06:41So that, that plot is the one that the justice should investigate,
06:46because someone hired Luis Benítez to stab the street vendor.
06:52And this is what deserves to be investigated,
06:54not something that later they say, well, no, this is diluted,
06:57because it would not be the first time
07:00that a territorial dispute for a street vendor
07:04ends up in a political mafia.
07:06Although one can say, well, it is a minor political mafia, yes, yes,
07:09but there is a dead kid.
07:11Someone hired this hitman to stab the street vendor
07:16and in his life he ended up stabbing Lucas Aguilar,
07:22the 20-year-old boy.
07:23So this is what needs to be clarified.
07:26And it would also be wise to explain
07:30who is in charge, who has, how it is sold,
07:35and how the street vendors' stalls are managed
07:37there in that Plaza de Moreno.
07:39The square, you were in the square,
07:41is it far from the municipality,
07:43the square where Leonardo Meroyo worked with his vendors?
07:48In front, Rolando.
07:49We are going to make the map of everything that happened.
07:52We are going to make the map of everything that happened.
07:55To my right, we are going to show it,
07:57to the left of the image,
07:59Nicolás Chazarreta is going to panic.
08:00They have the Moreno station.
08:02It is the head of the Sarmiento line
08:05that connects Moreno with Plaza 11.
08:07From there they go up and down
08:09and pass through here permanently
08:11the passengers who go or come to Moreno
08:13with the Sarmiento line.
08:14This is Mariano Moreno Square.
08:16In the face in front of this square,
08:20in the street in front,
08:21is where we were just doing the note with Martina
08:24and showing the position where Leo works.
08:27All here.
08:28The route of the criminal
08:31where Lucas Muerto ended.
08:32Now we are going to ask Nico to come to me
08:35with the camera,
08:36to the right.
08:38They stab Leo
08:40in the other part,
08:41in the other side of the square,
08:43in the street in front.
08:45The killer
08:47comes running
08:49through this street
08:50where the bus is parked there
08:52and turns
08:54through this same street
08:55where we are
08:56towards my back.
08:58From where the cars come,
09:00he turns running there.
09:01So,
09:02Lucas runs there.
09:03It means that Lucas Aguilar
09:05is less than a block away from the municipality.
09:10Exactly.
09:11They stab him very close from here,
09:14from this square.
09:15Everything happened
09:16in the radius
09:17of a couple of apples.
09:19In this same street,
09:21crossed by Leandro Nealem,
09:23which is not this square,
09:24but the other one,
09:26is where Lucas' murder takes place.
09:29That's why,
09:30I repeat,
09:31this is Mariano Moreno Square.
09:33We are in front of it,
09:34200 meters away.
09:35This is the commune,
09:36with the remains
09:38of what was this battle
09:39today in the afternoon.
09:41In front of it,
09:42we have Mariano Moreno Square.
09:44In the other side,
09:46in the other street,
09:47of the square,
09:48is where
09:49Leo's position is.
09:51Almost reaching the corner,
09:53the other vertex of the square
09:54where we are,
09:55where they stab Leo,
09:57the killer runs
09:59through that square
10:01where the microphone is.
10:03Lucas chases him
10:04down this street
10:06and about 150 meters away
10:08is where he is stabbed.
10:10Where this guy stabs him.
10:12This is the map
10:13of this whole
10:14Mariano Moreno Square.
10:16Now that you explain it
10:17with geographical precision,
10:19it is much better understood.
10:20And I tell you,
10:21it gives you even more chills,
10:22because we insist,
10:24Luis Benitez,
10:25the guy who stabbed
10:27a street vendor,
10:28or a postman,
10:29in the middle of Moreno Square,
10:31in front of the municipality,
10:32someone hired him.
10:34Because it wasn't
10:35out of nowhere.
10:36Someone hired him
10:37as a hitman
10:38to stab the vendor.
10:40Maybe he didn't want to kill him,
10:41he just wanted to scare him.
10:43And Lucas,
10:44thinking he was a thief,
10:45chased him.
10:47And there he proved
10:48that the man
10:49was not a thief,
10:50he was a professional hitman
10:51and he killed him
10:52with seven stabs.
10:53In fact, Leonardo Merollo
10:54said it a while ago,
10:56he said it in text,
10:57he said it in text,
10:58they sent him to kill me.
10:59That was his preliminary feeling,
11:01Gaby.
11:02That's what this man
11:03was saying,
11:05let's remember,
11:06he received several stabs,
11:08one of them near the abdomen.
11:10The doctors told him,
11:11you're alive by miracle.
11:12You're alive because I'm fat,
11:13because I didn't eat fat.
11:14Exactly,
11:15because if he had been skinny,
11:17as Lucas was,
11:18he probably
11:19wouldn't have told him.
11:21And you had the opportunity,
11:22Gaby,
11:23to talk to one of the girls
11:24who works in that position
11:26and she told you that
11:28they were partially receiving
11:30some kind of comments
11:31or threats, right?
11:35That's right.
11:36And the threats
11:37that Martina was telling us,
11:38that's the name of this girl,
11:40were supposedly coming from
11:42another saleswoman
11:43who works in the station.
11:45In the upper part,
11:47now we're going to show
11:48that staircase
11:49where Martina,
11:51at least she told me,
11:52is where
11:54this saleswoman
11:56usually stands.
11:58So we have that staircase
12:00that leads to the bridge
12:02that goes over the tracks.
12:04When you finish the staircase
12:06and go down,
12:08you have the platform
12:09that leads to the city of Buenos Aires,
12:11that is,
12:12the trains that leave
12:13from here to Plaza 11.
12:14So it's a strategic place
12:15because a lot of people
12:16pass by there in the morning.
12:18Totally.
12:19That's why you have to
12:20enter the place
12:21where you're standing
12:22as a salesperson.
12:23Let's simplify.
12:24Who do those salespeople
12:25deal with?
12:26With the police?
12:27With the municipality?
12:28Because that's where
12:29the truth of the milanesa lies.
12:31Who do they deal with?
12:32They deal with a street manager,
12:33they deal with a mayor
12:34of the municipality,
12:35because this happens
12:36in the railroad,
12:37it's federal police,
12:38because it's railway police.
12:39Someone allows those salespeople
12:40to sell there.
12:41Let's not be naïve.
12:42And in the municipality,
12:43in the square,
12:44it's another
12:45police station.
12:46It's another
12:47police station.
12:48It's another
12:49police station.
12:50It's another
12:51orbit where
12:52it can be
12:53the police of Buenos Aires,
12:54a street manager
12:55of a police station,
12:56it can be a mayor
12:57of the municipality.
12:58If it's the law
12:59of the street,
13:00unfortunately,
13:01you can't start
13:02selling.
13:03If you or me, Gaby,
13:04want to start selling
13:05alfajores,
13:06a man will appear
13:07and explain
13:08how many pairs
13:09are three boots.
13:10Sure.
13:11But does the same
13:12happen on the coast,
13:13on the Atlantic coast
13:14with the walking
13:15salespeople?
13:16Or wasn't it
13:17what was uncovered
13:18on January 1st
13:19of last year
13:20when they stabbed
13:21the young man
13:22in Santa Teresita?
13:23Sure.
13:24Who were the ones
13:25who stabbed
13:26that young man
13:27in Santa Teresita?
13:28A mafioso
13:29walking salesman.
13:30A gang
13:31related to
13:32these groups
13:33of salespeople.
13:34Exactly.
13:35Well,
13:36somehow,
13:37what Martina
13:38told us,
13:39of course,
13:40in relation
13:41to Leo's work,
13:42she tells us,
13:43Leo gives us
13:44work to everyone.
13:45We are not
13:46mafiosos.
13:47But if it was
13:48precisely
13:49these five
13:50mafiosos
13:51in all of this,
13:52there is no doubt.
13:53The message,
13:54more words,
13:55less words,
13:56said,
13:57I'm not going
13:58to tell you
13:59what a surprise
14:00you're going to get.
14:01And it was
14:02at 2.30pm
14:03and Leo Meroyo
14:04was stabbed
14:05at 6pm.
14:06The same day,
14:07right?
14:08The same day.
14:09Let's remember
14:10this,
14:11Luciano Rolando,
14:12Luciana Rolando,
14:13when we came,
14:14you will remember
14:15doing
14:16the jumpers
14:17so as not
14:18to pay
14:19the ticket
14:20for the windmill.
14:21We came here
14:22to Moreno Station.
14:23Do you remember
14:24that note?
14:25Yes, of course.
14:26That many people
14:27were jumping
14:28off the platforms
14:29so as not
14:30to go through
14:31the windmill.
14:32We were in contact
14:33at that time
14:34with many
14:35delivery
14:36sellers
14:37who were
14:38on a bicycle,
14:39looking for
14:40the platform
14:41and they
14:42were jumping
14:43the windmill
14:44because they
14:45couldn't
14:46with the bicycle.
14:47They told us
14:48let's work
14:49with the bicycle
14:50in the capital
14:51because here
14:52you can't work
14:53on a bicycle
14:54because they
14:55steal your bicycle
14:56the moment
14:57you leave.
14:58There,
14:59at least,
15:00we feel
15:01a little
15:02safer
15:03because
15:04we have
15:05a little
15:06more work.
15:07But,
15:08without a doubt,
15:09a delivery
15:10in Moreno,
15:11in Merlo,
15:12is much
15:13more risky
15:14than working
15:15in the capital.
15:16Thank you, Javi.