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New Year Violence Triggers Arrests and Homicide Probes Across Peru, Argentina and Spain

Fresh arrests and victim identifications shift the focus to forensic proof and command accountability.

Overview

  • Peru’s Fiscalía in Pataz identified three people killed at the Papagayo bocamina and opened a homicide investigation, with two detainees and ballistic and necropsy work underway in a zone rife with illegal mining disputes.
  • Two Peruvian police subofficers in Desaguadero were arrested after new surveillance video linked them to a vehicle theft and were placed under the Public Ministry and Seprove for statements and film analysis.
  • A construction worker in Marcona, Daniel Zulcaray Paredes, was fatally stabbed after a dispute; the suspected attacker, Brian Harold Villegas Tapia, remains in custody as prosecutors pursue the case.
  • In Argentina, two men were found shot dead in a drifting boat on the Río Coronda near Sauce Viejo, and in Rosario seven people were detained after a drive-by shooting that wounded two youths and led to the seizure of weapons and vehicles.
  • In Spain, a 38-year-old man died after multiple stab wounds in Madrid’s San Cristóbal de los Ángeles; Homicide Group V and Scientific Police took over the case and no arrests have been made.