SANTA FE.- In another advance of the investigation to clarify the San Cristobal massacreas it is known the shooting attack at a school where a 13-year-old teenager died and eight other students were injuredtwo properties linked to the second suspect arrested yesterday by the provincial police were raided.
According to sources in the investigation, the analysis of the cell phone of the perpetrator of the fatal shooting, Gino C., was key to arresting the second suspect, a 16-year-old teenager – punishable, unlike the murderer, who was already declared unchargeable due to his age – who would have previously known details of the criminal plan, and reinforces the hypothesis that there would be more involved.
“New arrests of young people linked to the perpetrator of the shooting are not ruled out,” said a police detective.
In this regard, Néstor Oroño, lawyer defending Gino C., confirmed that the cell phone of the teenager, who is 15 years old, was finally examined by specialists, as was part of the material seized in two previous raids: one carried out in the middle of last week and another during the long Easter weekend.
“We are facing a situation that transcends the borders of the province of Santa Fe“, stated yesterday the Secretary of Institutional Management of the provincial Ministry of Justice and Security, Virginia Coudannes.
The second suspect was arrested yesterday on Route 11, near the town of Nelson, about 150 kilometers from San Cristóbal. He was arrested while traveling in a car accompanied by his parents.
The expert reports were carried out by specialists from the Department Anti-Terrorist Investigation Unit (DUIA) of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) at the request of the prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPA) Carina Gerbaldowho heads the complex investigation into the armed attack on Normal School No. 40, establishment that remains closed by court order.
According to investigators, the presence and intervention of a specialized federal force gives the case a different dimension and opens the possibility of there being ramifications that exceed the local and even national scope.
This possibility was also admitted by Rolando Galfrascoli, provincial director of Criminal Investigation. “More involvement has not been ruled out. The Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Argentine Federal Police are working seriously to determine every last link of participation or commitment to the incident.”the official said in statements to the media Santa Fe Air.
Evidence
Regarding the operations carried out this morning, Galfrascoli stated: “The seized material will be made available to support the indictment of charges. (The second detainee) is a punishable minor. We believe that he was leaving San Cristóbal, assuming responsibility for things he had done”the provincial official speculated.
Meanwhile, everything seems to indicate that the arrest of the second suspect and the seizure of his cell phone and the raids on his house reinforce the investigators’ hypothesis that there would have been prior knowledge among some very close friends of the aggressor of the actions carried out by Gino C. at Escuela Normal N°40.
The attacker used a 12/70 caliber shotgun that he took from a closet in his maternal grandfather’s house. Ian Cabrera, 13, died in the attack. Eight other students were injured, two of them seriously.
