Nahir Digiglio (22) had separated from the father of her two children, Lucas Romero (26), three months ago. He ended up killing her.
Almost at the same time that the family said goodbye forever to Nahir Belén Digiglio (22), her former partner, the father of her two children, Lucas Nicolás Romero (26), was about to be investigated for femicide. They investigate whether he suffocated her to death in her house in Quilmes.
It had been more than three months since the relationship had ended. This Sunday, the children, ages 6 and 2, had stayed at their father’s house, on 856 street at 1300. Nahir and Lucas were from the same neighborhood in Villa La Florida. When the father of her children went to work, she would take care of them.
Romero was performing duties as a watchman for a security company that had a van to pick him up when his shifts were at dawn. This Monday the young man did not go to the meeting point, although he lied.
At 4:15 in the morning, Nahir was filmed entering the small house, which shared land with another house. She did it like that every day, while her children slept. When she woke up, she would take them to school and share the day with the boys. At least that should have happened.
It was around 6 that Romero stomped up the steps to knock on the door of the house of Miguel, his neighbor. He called for help, as if he had just been the victim of a robbery. “Call the police, they got in the back“, he asked visibly upset. The man helped him.
“He told me that it was a robbery, that they forced and entered. He asked me if we heard anything. The truth is that we did not hear anything. We heard that he went up quickly and told me that they entered to rob him,” he told C5N the neighbor, who called the police and stayed with the children until they went to look for them.
The witness described the femicide “a shocklike he found a strange scene” when he entered his house. He also invented that “they entered him through a rear window and that he only saw in the distance that the entrance door to the house was tilted.”
Romero first said that the van that was supposed to pick him up had not done so and that is why he returned home early. After he contradicted himself, he invented the version that they had tried to rob him while he waited.
The truth is that Nahir was dead. In bed, without clothes and the messy room. The couple’s children slept in the other bedroom. Nahir had marks on her neck and on her mouth. Also blood on her nose and on her hands. The bedside table was destroyed and a bloody handkerchief was thrown on the floor.
It was the security cameras and the scratches that Romero had on his neck that ended up denying it. That and the contradictions in his account alerted investigators.
The cameras in front caught the woman arriving at the house, but never Romero leaving, as he had said. There was no time when Nahir was alone in the house where she died.
The ex ended up in prison and they accuse him of “homicide aggravated by femicide“. This Tuesday he would be investigated by the prosecutor Martín Conde, in charge of the investigation.
The separation
Nahir and Lucas had been in a relationship for more than seven years. It had been about three months since that bond was broken and they separated.
The woman had started a new relationship with Rubén, another resident of Villa La Florida. That relationship would have increased the violence of her ex.
Nahir had defensive injuries, compatible with an attempted sexual abuse. His clothes were in the washing machine. and they did not find his underwear at home.
The sheets and a handkerchief were covered in blood. The preliminary autopsy report established that Nahir died as a result of “mechanical suffocation.” The main hypothesis, indicated to Clarionis that she was strangled “with her hands”.
According to the first data from the investigation, there were no previous complaints of gender violence by the victim against her former partner, although Conde does not rule out that it was a femicide committed in that context.
gender violence
So far in 2022, 268 femicides, seven transvesticides and 17 related femicides of men were recorded, according to the report of the Femicide Observatory in Argentina “Adriana Marisel Zambrano”.
Like Nahir’s children, there are 312 children left without a mother. 66 percent are minors and in 52 percent of the cases, the aggressors were couples or ex-partners, in many cases the parents of those children.
EMJ