The Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrichconfirmed this Monday that he will meet tomorrow with the Paraguayan Police to deepen the investigation of the hypothesis that Loan Danilo Peñathe 5-year-old boy who disappeared 11 days ago, has been taken to that country.
“Tomorrow I am going to talk to the Paraguayan police. As it is a hypothesis, we want the Paraguayan police work at a really hard pace because it is a hypothesis that, having accessed the cause yesterday, we have it as a possible hypothesis. So tomorrow I am going to be with the Paraguayan police watching this case,” the official said in an interview with Radio Miter.
According to reports from Security, the minister had planned a trip to Paraguay for some time to attend a summit of the Organization of American States to be held this week in Asunción, and will take advantage of her stay in that city to meet with representatives of the local police. .
Bullrich once again insisted that the ministry in his charge collaborates from the first moment with the investigation of the boy who disappeared on June 13 in the rural area of 9 de Julio, in Corrientes.
“From the first second that we learned of Loan’s disappearance, the people search system of the Ministry of Security moved to Corrientes, was on the scene, set up an entire search conducted by the Corrientes police and the Minister of Security of Corrientes. , in hypotheses that we did not know about, because we had access to the case only yesterday,” said the minister.
“We do not want to handle hypotheses, because we precisely believe that this is an issue that has generated a lot of confusion. There are many hypotheses, and The worst thing for a criminal investigation is to have five hypotheses, six hypotheses“added the head of the Security portfolio.
The minister stressed that the teams in her portfolio collaborate on all relevant tasks based on what they receive from local investigative forces. “We, who We just agreed to the case yesterdaytoday we are following what the provincial justice tells us,” he explained.
“If they give us access to the analysis of the cause, we can work on a hypothesis. If we do not have access to the cause, it is very difficult to work on a hypothesis without knowing what is inside,” he added.
Loan’s disappearance
Loan Danilo Peña disappeared on June 13 after participating in a lunch at his grandmother’s house, located in a rural area of 9 de Julio, in the western region of the province of Corrientes.
After an intense search for several days in the area, local Justice has now focused the investigation of the boy’s whereabouts on the hypothesis of a kidnapping for the purpose of human trafficking.
An uncle of Loan and a couple of his friends were the first arrested in the case, who were joined this weekend by a municipal official and her husband – a former ship captain – who participated in the lunch and hours later traveled to the province of Chaco in a Ford Ka car in which trained dogs found olfactory traces of the child.
The commissioner who was in charge of the search operation at the beginning is also in prison, accused of possible cover-up.
