What was the sequence behind the crime of an advisor to Verónica Magario?

There is still a tape on the sidewalk. It says “danger” and it is the one that surrounded the space in which Carlos Fernández (63) fell this Thursday night, around 8:30 p.m.

The man was shot dead in the chest after they tried to assault him. He was an advisor to Verónica Magario in the Buenos Aires legislature and had a long history of militancy in Buenos Aires Peronism.

This Thursday the movement – the neighbors say – was calm because of the holiday, the time and because there were a few minutes left before the game that the National Team would play in the United States.

“I thought it was a crash, a motorcycle,” a coffee shop employee told Clarion He didn’t even look out when he heard the roar that, he would later learn, was a gunshot.

Carlos Fernandez was driving his car; some neighbors identified it as a Toyota Corolla, although this information was not confirmed by the City Police. After 8:30 p.m. he stopped at 1100 Castro Street, meters before San Juan Avenue, in the only free place: the entrance to a garage.

“It was stopped, neither parked nor double-parked. With half the car inside and half the car outside, right at the garage door,” he told Clarion Leandro, a neighbor who saw the sequence after the crime from his balcony. He seemed – he speculated – as if “he was waiting for someone” to follow.

What happened next It’s a mystery. A friend is the only witness who could provide information but, since there are no cameras on that block that could have captured the moment of the crime, it is still not clear. if he tried to resist to the robbery or how the attack was.

The truth is that blood was still running on the asphalt right at the point where Carlos Alberto Fernández was injured after the robbery. A police officer who was doing his usual patrol was the first to arrive at the scene and called for the ambulance. Two arrived and rushed him to the Ramos Mejía Hospital where he finally died.

This Friday afternoon police personnel rang the neighbors’ doorbell to check if there were security cameras that could have taken the moments before or even the crime.

Yes, they were able to identify, thanks to a surveillance dome, two suspects who ran crossing San Juan Avenue “one dressed in brown, the other with a black vest.” They did it without looking and avoiding the cars that were traveling with the green light.

“I was coming from the supermarket on San Juan and in Castro, I heard a gunshot. When I look up I see two boys, between 20 and 30 years old, crossing the avenue in full traffic,” said the manager of a building in conversation with C5N .

“A police officer also heard and approached. He started calling the patrol cars and I went back home just in case. It was before the National Team game,” he added.

As far as he could know Clarionthey fled to 800 Castro Barros Street where they stole a Peugeot 208 and fled to the southern part of the province of Buenos Aires.

Thanks to a call to 911, they were able to detect similar characteristics in the criminals who robbed 208 and who attacked Fernández. According to the security cameras, they found it “crossing the Alsina Bridge” and, finally, the car was found in Villa Fiorito, Lomas de Zamora.

The two suspects they remain fugitives.

The investigation is in the hands of the Homicide Division of the City Police and Prosecutor’s Office No. 56 in charge of Edgardo Orfila.

Ana was afraid. She waited, scared, for her husband to return home after finding out that a person had been killed right in front of the grocery store they had owned for 18 years. “They never robbed us, you can see that they snatch cell phones and things like that, but we never saw something so serious like that,” she told Clarion.

Another neighbor, a cafeteria employee, said: “You see that they steal cell phones and things like that, but not like this. There are a lot of traffic accidents, motorcycles and things like that. But that’s why we never imagined that the noise could be a gunshot. “I thought another motorcycle had given it to him, to be honest.”

“Cochabamba, one block away, is a free zone for people to steal aid, wheels or break your glass. That’s a common thing. They’ve done it to me twice already, but never something like this,” Leandro agreed.

“On Saturday, June 8, around 10 in Tarija and Castro Barros, a neighbor was robbed at gunpoint. They stole her car, wallet, everything she had in the car, they loaded the gun in front of her and pointed it at her. If she didn’t give them everything, they were going to kill her. And two or three days later they robbed another neighbor in the same place. Plus the accident that involved four cars that were fleeing a robbery and took away those who were there. “they were parked,” said a neighbor in the group they created to talk about security in the area.

Carlos Alberto Fernandez I lived 10 blocks away from the place where he was finally killed. He was an official of the province of Buenos Aires and was currently an advisor to Vice Governor Verónica Magario.

Fernandez was a Peronist militant and fulfilled functions at different levels of public and legislative administration.

In 2015 he would have worked for the presidential campaign of Daniel Scioli, close to Gustavo Marangoni, then a collaborator of the governor and former president of Banco Provincia.

“Day of sadness for the Peronism of the City. In a broadcast robbery they murdered Carlos Fernández (Carlitos). A great friend and best companion. Militant of life, tireless fighter for noble causes. Rest in Peace Carlitos,” Juan tweeted Pablo Squiavi, former Secretary of Transportation of the Argentine Nation and Minister of Planning and Public Works of the City of Buenos Aires.

Manuel Luaces, director of the Institute of Public Finance and Tax Law of the San Martín Bar Association, published: “Very sad about the death of the Buenos Aires Peronist leader Carlos Fernández. We demand that justice be done and the guilty pay. Big hug to the family and all colleagues on this day.