The woman had been admitted to the Burn Institute along with Mercedes Roxana Figueroa, also 52, who is still undergoing treatment with 90% of her body with burns.
In addition to Cobas and Figueroa, their other two roommates suffered significant burns: Sofía Castro Riglos, 49, and Andrea Amarante, 42, who are admitted to the Penna Hospital.
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He attack was described as “homophobic” by other hotel residents, but police and judicial investigators have not yet clarified the case. For now, it was learned that two of the women were a couple and had rented a room in the hotel since 2022, where the other occupants later joined.
Meanwhile, the aggressor was identified as Fernando Barrientos, 68, who was identified as the partner of one of the attacked women and had already participated in other episodes that could be framed within the figure of gender violence.
The fire started “intentionally” on Sunday night on the second floor of a family hotel located in Olavarría at 1600, the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security reported.
Barrientos has already been discharged, but is detained after being accused of “homicide and serious injuries” by Judge Edmundo Rabbione, head of the National Criminal and Correctional Court 14.
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