Mass and march for the crime of a woman in Villa Soldati: “All of Argentina has been asking for security for years”

“This neighborhood is due to its people and, as such, strongly repudiates the murder of the neighbor Lurdes Avendaño Rejas. It doesn’t matter if she’s not blood related, we are one in this battle because this time, sadly, it was her. LET’S NOT CRY ONE MORE MURDER”, wrote a neighbor of Villa Soldati hours after motorcycle jets they will kill the 35-year-old woman for rob him wallet. The user of the social network that she wrote outraged was not alone. This afternoon, from 5:30 p.m., in the same Nuestra Señora de Fátima Church where the victim’s father, Urbano Avendaño, is a landlord; Hundreds of people attended the mass that was held to remember Lurdes.

Then it was his own father Andrewof the Church of Our Lady of Fatima, who led the march from the neighbors towards the intersection of Fernández de la Cruz and Mariano Acosta avenues, 200 meters from where the crime occurred, after the religious service.

There hundreds of neighbors made a cut. Shouting “security”, and with applause as the background, the demonstrators held up posters asking: “Enough of stealing lives”, “We want more security”, “The South of CABA is forgotten” and “We ask for Justice for Lurdes”.

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“Our neighborhood is a neighborhood of workers, a very good neighborhood, a neighborhood that fights every day. The need is that, that the struggle and the path be recognized. we want security, and that our kids who study can have access to everything. AND to be able to walk calmly as in other neighborhoods of the City”, said Father Adrián, the other priest who accompanied the priest Andrés leading the march.

One of the residents of Villa Soldati said about the crime in Lurdes: “We are sorry indignation and anger”. And he told about what they live on a daily basis: “We are hard-working and organized neighbors, because we always They tell us that there is no cell phone or staff and here is the Gendarmerie and the Police and it cannot be that there are two security forces and this happens to us: you cannot go out to study and work. Nobody protects us. We’re alone”.

“We need security, all of Argentina has been asking for security for years”, shouted another neighbor who participated in the mobilization. And she continued, speaking to the leaders and looking at the camera: “You are politicians, judges. You have to think of the people, work for the people and for the people. We need children who go to school without fear of having their cell phones stolen.”

Another neighbor broke down in tears: “Soldati is gone, they are killing us like rabbits. You get up in the morning and you have to ask God to let you live for a cell phoneIs a life worth it?

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After the cascade of applause in protest, the residents sang the National Anthem. They also burned tires.

Earlier, Fabián, a resident of the area, told the channel C5N that a “police presence” is needed in the area: “Soldati also exists in Comuna 8″, he expressed and asked: “We invite all the residents to that we unite at oncethat we put personal problems aside because this is a problem that concerns us all”.

Like other residents of the area, Fabián said that Lurdes “They killed her at point blank range, for no reason, because nothing was stolen from her”. “There are no more codes, we have already lost everything, she did not resist, she still had her belongings,” she added.

On Saturday night, around 10:30 p.m., Lurdes returned home to the Los Piletones neighborhood accompanied by her aunt, with whom she had gone to have a coffee in Villa Soldati. When they were only three blocks from her home, the women were intercepted by two criminals aboard a motorcycle enduro type on Mariano Acosta avenue at 2,900.

There, the criminals tried to steal his wallet. The aunt was unharmed. But Lurdes, who wanted to flee, was shot by the motorcycles. She was shot in the back and died instantly. “They killed her because yes”assured a trader who witnessed the event.

The victim had 35 yearswas a Bolivian national and had two children aged 16 and 14.

Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor No. 6 Eduardo Cubria investigate the case as a robbery homicide although he asked that the protocol corresponding to femicides be worked with. Experts from the Scientific Police acted in the area, who they lifted a 38 caliber served scabbard.

The suspects, so far, are fugitives.

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