The murder of a Brazilian woman, given the mechanics of the event and the background of the perpetrator of the murder, represents one of the dangers inherent in the city: the blind violence of people who pose a danger to themselves and to third parties. That’s the approach taken by FNA, the 30-year-old who was declared unshippable yesterday Murder of María Vilma das Doris Cascalho da Silva Bosco. This is not the first time a justice has decided she did not understand the intent of her actions. However, he was on the street.
At the beginning of December 2024, he was admitted, by order of a judge, to Torcuato Hospital after causing injuries and causing damage to Recoleta. Last Thursday, he was walking on Corrientes Street in the Abasto neighborhood, when he attacked a 69-year-old woman with a blow that caused her death after a short period of suffering in the hospital.
FNA goes in and out of psychiatric hospitals whenever she feels like it. He escapes directly from mental health institutions that do not have wards to contain people in conflict with the law. Similar stories are known every time these people reach the ultimate moment of causing death. Then there are numerous admissions to police stations, forced hospitalizations that have no effect or duration, and allow the state to become ticking time bombs. The problems generated by a mental health law that specialists in this field consider ineffective, and a revolving judicial door that now seeks to close by declaring repeat offenses as a limit to releases are technically understandable and incomprehensible from the point of view of a society that expects protection to intersect.
The city government found itself in the middle of controversy last April when it launched an operation it called “Special Order and Cleanup,” a measure through which, at the time before lawmakers were elected in Buenos Aires, it sought to muster force to remove homeless people from the streets. FNA was in that state when it killed the Brazilian woman who arrived last July to accompany her daughter, who was studying medicine at UBA. The controversy erupted when the Prime Minister of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri, published pictures of that operation. “It is the assumed obligation to maintain security and promote cleanliness in public places to ensure the well-being of all residents,” sources from the Macrista administration said at the time.
“We respond to neighbors’ complaints and ensure the cleanliness and safety of our public spaces, our squares and our sidewalks,” Jorge Macri said at the time, in what was understood to be a campaign promise. “The street is not a place to live. The city has a care system that includes shelters for the homeless.”
However, this danger to neighbors continues, as evidenced by the murder by a homeless man who has been prosecuted at least 20 times in the past 11 years for various crimes and who has evaded judicial protection several times.
The Buenos Aires authorities, for their part, confirm that they are continuing their pressure to avoid ranchadas, as groups of people who live on the street are called and gather in a place that they claim as their own. They also stress that they are trying to extricate those hands from items that can be used as weapons, although human rights organizations are clinging to a court proposal that would allow the homeless to carry knives to cut the food they receive from charity. A similar knife was used by a homeless man to kill engineer Mariano Barbieri in Palermo in order to steal his cell phone.
According to official information, six out of every ten adults, children or teenagers who wander on public roads suffer from some mental illness. This indicates the scale of the problem now revealed by the murder that occurred on one of Buenos Aires’ main streets, María Vilma das Doris Cascalho da Silva Bosco.
Last August, official information indicated that 1,500 people spent the night outdoors and about 3,000 took refuge in a hostel.
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