a woman’s warning about her death in a Patagonian paradise

““Raja of the House”“Maby” even warned his brother Carlos, who was in her house with the woman’s two children, in a WhatsApp audio Cutral Co. The 37-year-old woman was on her way to a police station in the middle of the night Villa Pehueniaa paradisiacal city in the Patagonia surrounded by the lakes Aluminé and Moquehue.

It happened after he was beaten by his partner. She wanted to report him, but the man drove off in his truck and found her. Deceived by her “remorse,” she got into the vehicle. However, he made a bloody decision: He drove the Nissan Frontier into a ravine and killed her.

“Sorry, Carlitos… sorry“The attacker then told his brother Mabel Rosana Lopez Fernandez. “It was an accidenthe insisted. Nobody believed him and he ended up in prison for femicide.

Everything happened on the morning of November 9th Provincial Road 13about 10 kilometers from Kilka Bridge, towards Zapala, Province Neuquen.

The couple had traveled from Cutral Co to Moquehue in the Aluminé department, where Alcides Ramon Reyes (39) He had to deliver a hut as he worked in construction. Two employees were also there, one of them 17 years old.

“They traveled on Friday, the idea was to deliver the cabin on Monday and they would all come back on Tuesday,” he told him. Carlos Lopez Fernandez (24)brother of the victim, Clarion.

The truth is that they were drinking on Friday night and Reyes attacked them with punches. “She called me on Saturday around six in the morning. I didn’t receive the call and she sent me an audio message,” added the young man, who works as a greengrocer in the Unión neighborhood while his sister owned a butcher shop.

“Carlitos, Rajah of the house. I put obstacles. Don’t stay there with the children, take them with you. We fought with Alcides, he beat me up and he says he’s going there“He warned her. He was afraid of what he might do to the woman’s two children, ages 17 and 12.”

In addition, he sent her a single exhibition photo with a beaten face. Carlos grabbed his nephew’s cell phone and took the picture, which he later provided to law enforcement.

“Maby” left the house at 3 a.m. on Saturday. She was accompanied by the other two bricklayers who came out from behind her to help her. It would take them more than three hours to walk to the police station in fear.

Before they could, Reyes found them at customs. The four got into the truck where they argued in Guaraní, as they were both born in Paraguay. She insisted I wouldn’t forgive him.

On the way, before reaching the Kilka Bridge, the driver ordered his staff: “Get out, I have to talk to my wife.“. A few meters later he drove the truck towards a ravine, knowing full well that he was wearing a seatbelt but she wasn’t.

According to researchers, the Nissan Frontier is “fell on his toes and spun.” The woman was ejected and died on the way to Zapala Hospital as a result of the blows she sustained.

The prosecutor Laura Pizzipaulo requested the arrest of the suspect for “Murder aggravated by bonding and mediating gender-based violence“, which carries a life sentence.

The Guarantee Judge Bibiana Ojeda He set an investigation period of four months and imposed two months of preventive detention on the defendant.

The couple met at a barbecue at the beginning of the year. He immigrated from San Pedro del Paraná, in the department of Itapúa. He was a bricklayer. She came to Patagonia at the age of 18 from Liberación, San Pedro department. His brother Carlos settled in Cutral Co in June 2019.

He had appeared in a jealousy scene in “Maby’s” butcher shop when he arrived and found her alone with a delivery man. “He made a big fuss about him and basically threw him out of the house,” “Carlitos” said.

He called her again and shouted: “Where are you? You look like a whore walking on the street“. The woman’s brother witnessed this conversation, as it was on loudspeakers, and replied to Alcides: “Who the hell do you think you are?“He immediately interrupted her while she was trying to cover it all up:”Insurance must be taken out“.

Last Tuesday, a month after the femicide, relatives and friends of the victim held a march in Plaza San Martín in Cutral Co to demand justice and “bring the message to several women who may be going through the same thing, and not to downplay any details or things that happen because you don’t know what they can achieve.”