“He who makes them, pays for them,” he published hours ago Patricia Bullrich. The Minister of Security announced that he instructed the Undersecretary of Penitentiary Affairs, Julián Curi, so that the immediate confinement of Francisco Riquelme, designated as the person responsible for the threats to the governor of Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro.
Bullrich’s statements came after the president received a new threat through a note that reached the Immigration Directorate, in Rosario, On Monday in the morning. This fact was added to other mafia messages that he received in December, after the first measures taken in terms of security were carried out, such as the transfer of prisoners and searches in prisons, where cell phones were seized.
Also, days before, there were three attacks on public buildings in the city of Rosario and in two of them they left threatening messages against the governor. The first was against a bank branch in the southern area, which was followed hours later by shots against the façade of the Clemente Álvarez Emergency Hospitaland a shooting against a west zone school.
Amid the growing threats, Pullaro claimed that he had moved his family out of Rosario. Support for the Santa Fe governor came from different sectors. From his pair of Entre Ríos, Rogelio Frigerio, even the state union, among many other expressions. The same CGT national issued a statement signed by the general secretaries Pablo Moyano, Héctor Daer and Carlos Acuña.
Housed in the federal unit of Marcos PazFrancisco “Fran” Riquelme He was also accused of two other incidents. The shooting in December of last year at the 19th police station in Rosario and an armed attack against a family home, which occurred days before. Also, the taxmanl Franco Carbone He was accused of instigating events of public intimidation, harm, and abuse of weapons. In addition, he requested restrictions on his communications and visits during preventive detention.
On December 22, Riquelme had not been allowed a visit because he was sanctioned, consequently, the accused threatened the staff of the Penitentiary Service. Five days later, at dawn, “following express instructions from the accused, people traveling in a car carried out at least seven detonations at the 19th Police Station”.
An act committed 12 days before the attack on the police station was also attributed to him. According to the file, the accused was accused of having used a telephone line to order an armed attack. With intimidating WhatsApp messages, he requested the return of a firearm under death threats and ordered an armed attack on the family’s home.
But these criminal charges are not new to Riquelme, the accused was already accused of shootings against schools, police stations, the prison complex and private homes, committed between April and May 2023. The criminal’s record is long-standing. In 2012, he was sentenced to six years for aggravated homicide in a fight and, in 2016, he was sentenced to 10 months for illegal possession of a firearm.
Riquelme He has been locked up for several years: in Piñero after being arrested on April 3, 2020, he was transferred to the federal prison of Ezeiza to control it better. That change did not work; in several episodes he threatened to kill the prison guards. For that reason he was ejected from Ezeiza towards the Marcos Paz Penitentiary Complex II. In that unit, under a strict control regime, they are housed Ariel “Guille” Cantero and the Peruvian Julio Rodríguez Granthon, one of the main drug suppliers in Rosario.
According to the researchers, Francisco Riquelme He is the head of a drug gang, responsible for the violent outbreak in the neighborhoods Ludueña and Empalme Granerosand that is linked to the renowned drug trafficker Esteban Lindor Alvarado, 44 years old, imprisoned in the Ezeiza prison. Many speculate that Alvarado is the true intellectual author of the threats to the governor of Santa Fe.
“Those who are considered, prima facie, by the Justice of Santa Fe, to be the ones carrying out the threat, are going to enter the high-risk program that we are starting in the federal prisons,” said Bullrich and later, in social networks, published: “I instructed the Undersecretary of Penitentiary Affairs, Julián Curi, “so that the immediate confinement of the prisoner who is in a federal prison who made the threats to Governor Pullaro is ordered.”
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