Step by step how the crime of the police in the Retiro happened: a few minutes before the victim gave the murderer a glass of water

“I feel bad, I want to vomit and my legs hurt“, he confided Oscar Gustavo Valdez —former mason, resident of Villa 31 and originally from Ciudad del Este, Paraguay— this morning to his partner. A few hours later, the 29-year-old man was arrested for an absurd crime: after stealing the regulatory weapon from the municipal police maribel zalazar (35 years old) at the Retiro station on line C of the metro, he killed her with two shots. A few seconds before, the woman had approached to offer him a glass of water.

It all started around 8 a.m. on Tuesday. Since he felt bad and had no money to go to the doctor, Valdez there was devised a plan: he would take the metro to Retiro station with his girlfriend E., 22, to meet his aunt there, who would give him money and an identity document so that he could be treated at the hospital .

Indeed, the former mason and his companion took line B at the station Malabia, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Crespo, towards Leandro N. Alem. Arrival at the station Carlos Pellegrini makes the combination with line C in the direction of Withdrawal. Once there, before going through the turnstiles, Valdez started limping. At that time, private security personnel approached him and asked if he felt unwell. The man replied no, that only his legs hurt. But since his answer was not very convincing, they began to sit him on a chair to help him.

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Seeing Valdez sitting in the chair, Officer Zalazar, who has worked since 2018 in the metro division of lines C, D, E and H and Premetro, He approached the man to offer him a glass of water.. It was 11 a.m. a few minutes before. Since the man was not recovering, they decided to place him in a Camille who was there. Valdez refused: he did not want to be assisted.

how he was able to rebuild GlobeLiveMedia According to investigative sources who accessed the inmate’s girlfriend’s story, when the security worker and police attempted to put Valdez to bed on the stretcher, the man began to struggle. with officer Zalazar, took the regulation weapon of his size and started shooting in different directions: two of them hit the policewoman.

Even though he was wearing his bulletproof vest, Zalazar was injured in the chest and neck. Medical staff at Churruca Hospital, where she was rushed by helicopter, confirmed her death at 12:30 p.m.

The shooting also injured one person. It is an operator of EMOVA – concession company of the metro network – which, as confirmed, is out of danger.

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After the attack, Valdez threw the gun away before exiting the subway. and he started running. Finally it was caught by personnel of the Federal Police (PFA) and the Municipal Police at the height of the Sheraton hotel. As they tried to get him into the patrol car, the now inmate became violent again.

A video that recorded the moment shows how the attacker resisted arrest. He first struggled with the officers and then he started shouting: “Bring it to my son and my daughter. Don’t do this to me! I’m the boss, I won! You won’t bother with me! They hurt me, the cameras!”.

as he learned GlobeLiveMedia, the suspect has income in the Buenos Aires system in recent years for Resistance to Authority (2020) and Gender Violence (2021). On the latter, for example, there is a case settled at Public Prosecutor’s Office No. 16, specialized in the said matter, responsible for Claudia Barcia. The Federal Police Communications System (SIFCOP) had even been asked to find out where he was. I mean, he was wanted. In the criminal and correctional chamber does not register any proceedings against him.

In the police investigation of the crime, the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 9, responsible for Martin Peluso and Secretariat 108, which ordered that federal police personnel be tasked with the expertise.

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As a result of what happened, the city’s security minister on leave, Marcelo D’Alessandroregretted the death of Zalazar and warned that this type of event could be avoided if the national government allowed the entry of pistols into the country Tasers. “The confrontation could have been controlled with a taser. Two years ago we bought 60 units, but the Kirchner government blocked them with the trout apology festival that they use to defend criminals,” he assured.

“¿How many dramas will we have to regret because of this ridiculous whim? How far will this irresponsibility go to want to fuck up the life of Buenos Aires because they do not vote for the jets? What are they going to invent now? Non-lethal weapons are a key tool for taking care of people, most countries in the world use them. Political pettiness cannot be more important than people’s lives,” the official concluded.

maribel zalazarlived in the town of Glew in Buenos Aires, was in a relationship and had two children: one 13 years old and the other 5 years old. According to his CV, the official he had been trained in the federal police. He joined the force in 2014 and worked in that force until 2016. A year later, he applied for transfer to the city government to join the local police, where he served in the 10th Police Station, then went to Community Police Station 7B. Since 2018 he has worked in the Metro Division of lines C, D, E and H and Premetro. They killed her while she was doing her job..

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