Saturday April 08, 2023 | 6:26 p.m.
The victim acknowledged that the knife was the one used by her ex-partner, whom she had previously denounced. //Photo: Polmis.
The victim acknowledged that the knife was the one used by her ex-partner, whom she had previously denounced. //Photo: Polmis.
Shortly before this noon, the knife with which Marino Ángel Dutra (39) stabbed his former partner, Mariana Soledad C. (32), was found on Thursday morning in the town of Salto Encantado.
It is a kitchen knife with a light blue handle and a 20-centimeter blade, which the defendant’s own brother detected in the patio of his home and alerted the authorities.
According to official information, after 10 o’clock the uniformed officers of the Salto Encantado Police Station went to the Cerro Moreno area due to the call of the man, who stated that he had found a knife that did not belong to him at the back of his property and that he could have in relation to the investigation for “attempted femicide and judicial disobedience” to the detriment of his former sister-in-law.
The troops kidnapped the knife, which was later recognized by the victim as the one used for the attack, for which the Scientific Police will carry out the technical examination. Dutra, meanwhile, remains detained.
couldn’t get closer
The Salto Encantado attack is a new case of extreme violence against women perpetrated in Misiones by a subject who for several weeks had been prohibited from approaching the victim as a judicial measure to restrict approach was in force due to complaints of physical and verbal aggression. harassment and threats, which she had done.
But without caring about the consequences, the violent man showed up at the woman’s home and attacked her with a knife in front of her own son, with the intention of killing her. He then fled the scene and was on the run for a few hours until he was captured by the Police.
Alert from the hospital
The police guard received the alert from the Samic Hospital in Aristóbulo del Valle, reporting the admission of a woman with stab wounds.
Already in the hospital, where she was treated, the victim herself told the details of the attack and directly accused her ex-partner: Marino Ángel Dutra.
According to the medical diagnosis, the woman suffered puncture wounds to the abdomen and right arm, which fortunately did not damage vital organs.
With the collaboration of the Aristóbulo Radioelectric Command, the Salto Encantado uniforms began looking for Dutra in a large rural area. He was finally arrested and housed in the unit at the disposal of Justice.
