Overview

• Police located 5-year-old Pedro Teodoro Rodríguez Laurta in a Gualeguaychú hotel and detained his father, Pablo Laurta, who is under arrest.
• Authorities had activated the Alerta Sofía protocol and issued Interpol notices, prompting a nationwide search and border alerts toward Uruguay.
• Forensic teams reported close‑range gunshot wounds and recovered 9 mm shell casings at the Córdoba home where Luna Giardina and her mother, Mariel Zamudio, were killed.
• The Fiscalía de Instrucción de Violencia Familiar y de Género (2º Turno) is treating the case as a double homicide aggravated by the relationship and gender‑based violence, and the child remains under judicial protection.
• Reports cite prior complaints of abuse, including an attempted strangulation and an unused panic button, and investigators are reviewing the suspect’s antifeminist online activity linked to “Varones Unidos.”