Overview

• A Bermejo court ordered six months of preventive detention as prosecutors probe her alleged role in express robberies totaling nearly five million pesos.
• Local merchants intercepted and brutally assaulted her in the street, cutting her hair, leaving her semi-naked and threatening to burn her before border police intervened.
• Overcrowding at the Bermejo women’s unit prompted her transfer to Morros Blancos Prison in Tarija, where she remains held.
• Argentina’s consulate in Tarija confirmed her citizenship, arranged a public defender and is tracking her medical treatment and security.
• Prosecutors are investigating potential accomplices in the alleged robbery network and her family is demanding guarantees for her physical integrity and fair trial rights.