“He died of overdose”: the lie of the police to the family of the prisoner murdered in Mar del Tuyú

This Monday eight of the nine Buenos Aires police officers accused of the crime of Alejandro Martínez refused to testify at the 3 ° Police Station of San Clemente del Tuyú. In addition, it was known an audio that compromises even more so the situation of the uniformed men.

This is the call in which the officers notify the victim’s family that the man had died. The recording exposed the lie To which they resorted when on the other end of the line they were asked what had happened to him.

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“Passed away for overdose”Was the answer without hesitation that the policeman offered to an aunt of Martínez. Beyond any suspicions the woman might have about the explanation she had just heard, it was the autopsy result which finally discarded the official version.

According to forensics “the cause of death would be a traumatic cardiorespiratory arrest probably secondary to mechanical asphyxia”.

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The nine detained police officers are accused of “aggravated homicide by being committed by a member of the police force abusing his function”, a penalty that provides for life imprisonment.

The only agent declared yesterday assured that she intervened in the arrest after a report that the man “had made destruction in the hotel room “ and that “at all times he was saying inconsistencies.”

The woman said that they transferred Martínez “altered” to the section, who attacked “with kicks” when they took him off the mobile, and that he was loaded between three troops “because he was struggling all the time.”

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