A former Newell’s bar was sentenced to 11 years in prison for ordering a crime that was committed “by mistake” in Rosario

One of the three members of a criminal gang from the Santa Fe city of Rosario, which this week began to be tried for six homicides and four attempts, was sentenced to 11 and a half years in prison for one of those events through an abbreviated trial.

The former boss of the Newell’s Old Boys barrabrava, Emiliano “Jija” Avejera, was sentenced to 11 years and 6 months in prison as the instigator of a murder that was committed “by mistake”, which occurred in 2016.

As reported by the Santa Fe Judicial Power, Avejera accepted his guilt in the crime of Lisandro Javier Fleitas, A man shot to death on the night of October 10, 2016 when he was riding a motorcycle with his partner and their six-year-old son.

According to the investigation, at the request of Rubén Ariel “Tubi” Segovia – a drug lord who was in prison – Avejera commissioned third parties to attack Lautaro “Lamparita” Funes, brother of “El Gordo” Funes. Investigators determined that Fleitas was killed by “mistake”, as he was riding a motorcycle just like the one Funes was riding.

After the agreed sentence, Avejera will continue to be tried in the oral proceedings by the murder of someone who was leaving the Santa Fe prison in Piñero after visiting his brothers Alan and Lautaro, detained for illicit association and homicide, the judicial spokesmen specified.

Funes He was shot at meters from the prison, at the intersection of Route 14 and AO12, when he was traveling with his girlfriend, who was unharmed.

As reported by the prosecutor of the Homicide Unit Pablo Pinto, The victim was intercepted on that corner by a Ford Eco Sport truck, which blocked his path when he reached the highway and when he noticed that it was an ambush, Funes got out of his Audi brand car and tried to flee on foot, but fell collapsed a few meters after being hit by a burst of bullets that, as described by the Investigative Police, collected 16 9-millimeter caliber pods from the crime scene.

The victim had been authorized to go to see his brother on a day and at a time not regularly authorized for visits., precisely to prevent him from being ambushed by the Camino.

The saga of homicides and attempted murders referred to in the trial occurred between November 2016 and February 2018, and had as a context a violent drug dispute between two family clans in the south of Rosario over the territorial dispute: the Camino and the Funes.

The defendants are, in addition to Avejera, Enrique Adrián “Cable” Solís and José Damián Pucheta, members of the gang led by former Newell’s gang boss Roberto “Pimpi” Camino, until his assassination in March 2010.

With different roles and accusations, Prosecutors Alejandro Ferlazzo, Luis Schiappa Pietra and Ademar Bianchini accuse the members of that group of six murders and four unsuccessful attempts, spokesmen for the cause recalled. Among them are the killings of the brothers Ulises and Jonathan “Bam Bam” Funes, murdered on January 7 and February 5, 2018, respectively.

The trial also linked the attempted murder of their father, Jorge “Gordo” Funes, which occurred on January 1 of the same year as part of the wave of revenge between the gangs.

On its first day, the oral proceedings went to an interim room, dictated by judges Rafael Coria, Nicolás Foppiani and Patricia Bilotta, facing the possibility that Avejera’s defense would reach an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office to sign an abbreviated process, what finally happened.