Murdered policemen: the attacks on officers that shook public opinion

The murder of the officer City Police, who lost his life serving at the Retiro station on Line C of the subway, caused a lot of commotion. Maribel Nelida Zalazar35 years old, had been working since 2018 in the Subway Divisionand was attacked by a man who took the weapon from her and fired two shots at her: one in the chest and the other in the neck.

According to the detainee’s girlfriend, he became violent when, after he felt bad, they wanted to put him on a stretcher to assist him. That was the moment when the man snatched the Zalazar gun from him and unleashed the tragedy. The officer was in a relationship and had two children, one 13 years old and the other 5. And the Zalazar case adds to a long list of dead officers, most of them in service.

In fact, a few days ago rosary beads, a police officer was killed along with another person in front of a nightclub, near Juan B. Justo and Olmos streets. The police Ricardo Hector Medini He fell dead when there was a shootout at the hands of some criminals (presumably from a drug gang) who drove by in front of the premises: they fired 37 times as confirmed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPA).

Hector Ricardo Medini.

Also in Rosario, at the end of last year, the police Joel Ruiz (25) was shot when a search was being carried out in a house in the Acindar neighborhood. After the shots were fired, the attacker – identified as Ramon Oscar Brest (47) – took his own life, while Ruiz was transferred to a hospital where he was placed in a pharmacological coma. But despite medical efforts, he died an hour later.

A year ago, in October, a deputy commissioner of the City Police, Rodrigo Guillermo Beckerwas assassinated in homemade by two criminals who intercepted him when he was taking his motorcycle out of his home garage and shot him twice in the chest, then escaping on Becker’s motorcycle. One of the perpetrators of the crime was captured: a 17-year-old teenager. After perpetrating the murder, the attacker had hidden in a Buenos Aires party house, and was later captured by the police force.

Rodrigo Guillermo Becker
Rodrigo Guillermo Becker

The victim, who was 41 years old and had three daughters. The residents of the place gathered at her house to pay tribute to him and, due to the crime, the Ministry of Justice and Security of the City of Buenos Aires published a statement on his Twitter account: “We send our condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Deputy Commissioner Rodrigo Guillermo Becker of the City Police who lost his life in an attempted robbery.”

In March 2022, a few meters from Fuerte Apache, the Federal Police Edgardo Tierro Giuliani He was killed by criminals while he was picking up a cell phone that he had bought online: he was shot 8 times and it was his girlfriend, who was with him, who notified the police.

Also in December 2020, in the neighborhood Gregory of Laferrere of the party of The Slaughter, Carlos Alberto Nicolás Andino, cash from the Buenos Aires Police, was surprised by a group of criminals when he was leaving his house in his truck. They wanted to rob him, and when they were unable to do so, they shot him in the face. Andino fell to the ground, seriously injured, and a neighbor called 911. Minutes later, his colleagues took him to the hospital. Just Avoidbut would die minutes later.

They arrested three young people aged 17, 20 and 21, known in the neighborhood by the nicknames of “Kevin”, “Gabi” and “Mati”. Due to the age of the defendants, the Juvenile Criminal Responsibility Prosecutor on duty intervened, who ordered the arrest of the young people under the crime of “aggravated criminis causae homicide” because the victim was a member of a security force.

A month earlier, in the Buenos Aires town of Billinghurst, San Martín district, Fernando Palavecino He was serving in the Tres Febrero Local Prevention Police Unit (UPPL) when he was shot at the corner of Primera Junta and Rivadavia: he died shortly after in the General Interzonal Hospital for Acute Eva Perón.

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