Overview

• Pablo Laurta was ordered into 120 days’ preventive detention in Entre Ríos on a homicide criminis causa charge over the killing of driver Martín Sebastián Palacio, and he is expected to be transferred to Córdoba to be charged in a separate double femicide; he shouted an unverified claim to reporters during his transfer.
• In the Florencio Varela triple femicide investigation, prosecutors summoned eight detainees to testify and newly charged Ariel Giménez as a coauthor for allegedly digging the burial pits, with preventive detention rulings expected next week and three suspects still at large.
• Police raids in Pilar, Córdoba province, detained three men tied to a ‘black widows’ network linked to the death of Uber driver Lucas Pereyra, seizing vehicles, electronics and multiple phones from what investigators described as a storage bunker.
• Peru’s Public Ministry opened a preliminary probe into police for alleged excessive force during the October 15 protests in Lima, ordering ballistic tests and medico-legal exams as one person was killed and roughly 30 civilians and more than 80 police were reported injured; a victims’ lawyer alleged officers tried to interfere with the necropsy.
• A San Juan nightclub kept online a Halloween promo video depicting a woman’s abduction and apparent execution, drawing public condemnation as Argentina tracks a high toll of femicides this year.