A man was burned to death in an abandoned car. in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Balvanera. For the fact, which occurred this Tuesday morning, the son of the owner of the vehicle was arrested, who confessed to a family member that he had set fire to the car tired of being used by people on the streetpolice sources reported.
The victim has not yet been identified and the now accused is a man who would have psychiatric problems and alcohol consumptionas revealed by the Buenos Aires Minister of Justice and Security, Marcelo D’Alessandro.
“In this particular case, the owner of the vehicle knew perfectly well that there was a person sleeping in the car because it had been vandalized not long ago. She tries to help him and ends up being hospitalized for carbon monoxide inhalation and then ends up understanding the investigation and because he himself has confessed it, that This lady’s son was drunk, doused the car with fuel and set it on fire with the person inside”the official told the channel TN.
The incident occurred this morning on 24 de Noviembre Street at 100, where a crew of Firefighters from the City Police attended due to the fire in a car parked on the block. Firefighters put out the fire in a Chevrolet Aveo, inside which there was a burned person.
Although some sources initially indicated that the sex of the victim could not be determined, a police spokesman told Telam that the experts established that it was a man who has not yet been identified and whose age will be estimated later in the morgue.
The sources detailed that the owner of the burning vehicle told the officers of the 3 A neighborhood police station of the City Police that three days ago the car had been vandalized, and that the battery had been removed and the windows had been broken, for what It is not ruled out that the person who died inside the vehicle was someone on the street.
The witness, who, seeing her car on fire, went out into the street to try to put out the fire and help the person who was inside, was treated by Same personnel for smoke inhalation and taken preventively to the Ramos Mejía hospital.
The defendant is the son of the owner of the car who, according to the investigation, returned home drunk and told his wife that he had set fire to his mother’s car, fed up with being vandalized by people on the street.
The arrest was made this morning by members of the 3 A neighborhood police station of the City Police, in an apartment on the first floor of a building located at 3221 Hipólito Yrigoyen Street, just around the block where his mother lives and where Chevrolet Aveo car caught fire.
The investigation was left in the hands of the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office 21, Carlos Vasser, and the investigating judge 15 of the same jurisdiction, Karina Zucconi, who a few hours later ordered the man’s arrest.
The defendant was detained at the disposal of Judge Zucconi, accused of “homicide”, although a medical and psychiatric study will be carried out to determine if he is in a position to be investigated.