A new search yielded negative results five months after the disappearance of Lucas Escalante

Relatives and friends of Escalante will carry out a mobilization at Eva Perón at 5100, by Florencio Varela, starting at 7:00 p.m., under the slogan “5 months without Lucas”

Brandsen’s Buenos Aires party was the scene of a new search for Lucas Escalante, the 26-year-old who disappeared five months ago when he left Florencio Varela. That night, the boy was with his friend Lautaro Morello, who was later found murdered in Guernica.

From the morning until the afternoon, firefighters and members of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) carried out the operation in the vicinity of provincial route 210, near the Aguas Claras complex, in said part of the interior of the province of Buenos Aires.

Under the supervision of the prosecutor of the decentralized Functional Instruction Unit (UI) 1 of Berazategui, Ernesto Daniel Ichazo, divers and firefighters coordinated a sector of the Samborombón river, since it is a rural area that is impossible to travel by vehicle.

The operation, carried out by Firefighters and members of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA), took place from morning until this afternoon in the vicinity of Provincial Route 210, near the Aguas Claras Complex, in said part of the interior of the province of Buenos Aires.

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In order to carry out the tasks, the transfer of personnel from the Homicide Division of the PFA, the Department of National Investigations, the Scientific Police and firefighters was required; In addition to drones and dogs. However, beyond the efforts, the results of the operation were negative, according to a judicial source.

The investigations reported that the search was decided in this place after Escalante’s cell phone was activated in an antenna in that area. The situation occurred after two days of having no trace of the young man.

In parallel, relatives and friends of Lucas Escalante will carry out a mobilization today, starting at 7:00 p.m., in Eva Perón at 5100, in Florencio Varela. The march will have the slogan: “5 months without Lucas.” “We want justice for Lautaro and the appearance of Lucas now,” indicated the new call for relatives and neighbors.

To date, for the murder of Morello, an 18-year-old youth, and the disappearance of Escalante, Cristian and Maximiliano Centurión, son and nephew, respectively, of Commissioner Francisco Centurión, former head of the Quilmes Illicit Drugs Delegation, are in jail; whose last destination was in a unit in La Plata, where he was the liaison between the Buenos Aires police and Interpol. Both are accused of the crime of “doubly aggravated homicide by treachery and cruelty” to the detriment of the victim. For the crime of concealment, meanwhile, the head of the Departmental Directorate of Investigations (DDI) Quilmes, Luis Alberto Zaracho, and the head of the 4th police station are being held. of Forests, commissioner Sergio Enrique Argañaraz.

A new search with negative results five months after the disappearance of Lucas Escalante

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Along the same lines, another police officer, Ramiro Yair Forchinito (33), who worked in an area integrated with Interpol, and was the right hand of Commissioner Centurión, was also imprisoned for false testimony. However, he has already regained his freedom.

Escalante was last seen on Friday, December 9, in the town of Bosques, Florencio Varela’s match, when he went to look for Morello to go out to celebrate the victory of the Argentine National Team against the Netherlands in the semifinals of the World Cup in Qatar on board of a BMW car, which the next day appeared burned.

Morello’s body was found around 9:30 p.m. on Thursday the 15th next to the Buen Ayre highway under construction, in Guernica, President Perón’s party, lying face down, “semi-calcined and in an advanced state of decomposition” and, according to the autopsy , death was caused by “mechanical asphyxia”.

The investigation relates the young people to the chief commissioner Centurión, since the last destination in which it was accredited that the two friends were was in their country house in Bosques. A few days ago, at the request of the prosecutor Ichazo, a search was carried out in that country house in which traces of blood and remains of burned elements were found, which are now being analyzed.

Consequently, the Centurión were detained after the analysis of security cameras and cell phone antennas, since in a recording of a Florencio Varela service station Cristian is seen around 0.30 on December 10 loading gasoline in a white drum that is suspected to have been used to incinerate Lucas’s car and Lautaro’s body.

One of the hypotheses that was investigated was that the two defendants arrested in the case offered the victims free gasoline vouchers as a method to attract them, and as a result of that suspicion, a series of incriminating audios were incorporated.

Last March, the national government raised from four to five million pesos the reward for those people who provide information that allows them to find the whereabouts of the young man.

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