Overview

• The case was classified as “Averiguación de causales de muerte” and is being handled by Fiscalía N°6 under prosecutor Juan Menucci.
• Fire department pericial analyses have been delayed by high indoor temperatures and are now awaited to determine the blaze’s origin.
• Neighbors alerted police, Bomberos de La Plata and SAME medical teams after hearing screams and seeing a dense column of smoke from the house on Calle 69.
• Firefighters extinguished flames that had spread through at least two rooms before finding the body of seven-year-old León Cáneva inside one of the charred bedrooms.
• The victim’s family has launched social media campaigns requesting donations to cover funeral expenses and aid relatives who lost belongings in the fire.