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Argentina Confronts String of Violent Attacks as Investigations Advance Across Provinces

Across provinces, prosecutors pursue cases marked by viral evidence, neighbor interventions, divergent outcomes for suspects.

Overview

  • In Carmen de Areco, security video captured a punch from behind that left boxing coach Ale Acuña with fractures to his right cheekbone and maxilla, with surgery scheduled in San Nicolás and the alleged attacker identified as P.P. still at large.
  • In Gerli, Avellaneda, a 37-year-old stepfather was intercepted by neighbors and detained after a 7-year-old was left disfigured; UFI N°2 Avellaneda–Lanús will charge him with aggravated serious injuries by the relationship.
  • In San Francisco Solano, Kiara Maqueira and her 1-year-5-month-old daughter were wounded in a knife attack inside their home, a judge issued an arrest order for the accused Agustín Ramos, and relatives report the grandmother requires facial surgery from the intervention.
  • In Villa Rumipal, Córdoba, police found a 22-year-old’s body hidden under a bed, her 64-year-old mother was detained, Fiscalía de Río Tercero leads the case with autopsy and psychiatric tests, and relatives say the victim had disabilities as the cause remains under ‘etiología dudosa’.
  • In Guernica, Buenos Aires province, neighbors fatally attacked a 35-year-old man they accused of abusing a 17-year-old, the assailants fled, and Unidad Funcional Descentralizada N°1 investigates the killing as homicide with Policía Científica conducting scene work.