Tuesday, January 3, 2023 | 4:00 p.m.
The autopsy carried out on Emanuel Rosendo Portillo, the 20-year-old young man who was found murdered last Friday, December 30, in a weedy sector in the town of Azara, determined that he received 42 stab wounds. Six of them were penetrating and in turn caused his death.
So far the investigation has not detained beyond the fact that Justice had initially set its eyes on a young man from the town who apparently had a sentimental relationship with the victim.
In this context, a march was held this morning to demand justice and the clarification of the brutal murder. Although the epicenter was in Azara, the demonstration was replicated in several towns in Misiones, including Oberá and Posadas.
The victim’s mother, Alejandra Benítez, who the day before finding her murdered son had reported him missing, spoke with the program after the march Here we tell you for Radioactive 100.7 and admitted: “I feel very bad.”
“There was a person arrested who was Ema’s partner but now he is free because they found nothing to link him to the crime,” explained the parent and along these lines, she analyzed that “my son went to that place because they called him and he knew that person, otherwise he was not going to go. He asked an aunt for the bicycle, explaining that he was going to do something but he was coming back, he never came back”.
Yesterday afternoon and a few thousand meters from the place where the body was found, members of the Homicide Department found Portillo’s 29-wheeled bicycle.
The vehicle was missing from the moment of the event and it is believed that the victim reached a sector of Lot 200 of the aforementioned town to meet his murderer.
In addition, the investigations seized a black backpack inside which was a butcher-type knife, with a white plastic handle and a pliers. Said elements will be examined in search of biological traces.
It also transpired that the aforementioned bag was hidden in the trunk of a tree, 700 meters from where they found Portillo’s body, by a neighbor who was looking for fertilizer in the area.
Benítez said he was satisfied with the progress of the police investigation, although he complained about the lack of importance they gave him the night he went to the office, reporting the absence of his son and asking that they look for him. “I had to find my son, thrown away and in a way that not even an animal can do,” she lamented anguished.
Finally, he remembered his son as “a happy boy, he loved orchids, cacti, he had his nursery and he loved flowers. He was a loving person, but out there people judged him because he was gay. He didn’t have bad together, no I had problems with nobody, so I don’t have an explanation of what happened.”
“I hope justice is done soon,” Emanuel’s mother pleaded.
