2023-09-18 00:21:00
D17-year-old adolescents will begin to be tried this Monday in the context of the crime case of businessman Andrés Blaquier, murdered by a shot to the chest on October 29 of last year when they tried to steal his motorcycle while he was traveling on the Pan-American highway near the Buenos Aires district of Pilar.
The minors are charged with the crime of “robbery aggravated by the use of a firearm and resulting in serious injuries, in real competition with homicide triple aggravated for being ‘criminis causa’, for treachery and for having been committed with a firearm” to the detriment of the murdered Blaquier (62), and his partner Magdalena De Elordywho suffered a fracture of the patella of his left knee during the incident.
An accused of the crime of Andrés Blaquier, who had escaped a month ago, fell into stealing in Escobar
The debate will begin at 10 and will take place in the Juvenile Criminal Responsibility Court 1 of the Judicial Department of San Isidro. The magistrates in charge of the process will be Alejandro Flori, Silvia Chomiez, Patricia Klentak, while the prosecutor Paula Romeo will represent the Public Ministry. Furthermore, the spokespersons clarified that It will be a trial reserved for the parties because the accused are two minors.
Likewise, due to the ages of the accused, they advanced that In this first instance it will only be decided whether the accused are innocent or guilty, so no possible penalties will be imposed.. If the guilt of the accused is proven, a caesura trial will be held to determine the corresponding sentence.
The murder of Andrés Blaquier
According to judicial sources, Blaquier’s crime occurred on October 29, 2022 at 6:54 p.m.when the businessman was riding a black BMW 1200 motorcycle in the slow lane at kilometer 50 of the Panamericana, in the Pilar area, with his wife, Magdalena De Elordy, heading towards the province.
While he was driving, the businessman was approached by two criminals who were on a Kawasaki Z400 motorcycle. The assailants blocked the man’s path and then shot him in the chest with a 9 millimeter caliber pistol, “with the intention and will of causing his death to facilitate and complete the seizure of his motorcycle“.
As a result of the shot, Blaquier and De Elordy fell from the motorcycle. For his part, the subject who fired the firearm got on the businessman’s motorcycle and fled aboard it. However, 10 kilometers from the scene he suffered an accident: He lost control and fell on the asphaltso he left the victim’s motorcycle abandoned next to the guardrail and fled in the vehicle they had used in the attack.
Meanwhile, the victim was assisted by an ambulance, but He arrived lifeless at the hospital after suffering “hypovolemic shock” because of the bullet he received in the left side of his chest. According to the autopsy, the shot caused massive bleeding as there were perforations in the pleurae and his left and right ventricles of the heart.
The young man who escaped from the Blaquier case is taken to a juvenile institution
After a series of investigative tasks that placed the two accused teenagers in the area of the incident, on November 8 of last year, several raids were ordered in homes in the Buenos Aires town of Garín where they were detained. In the procedures they found the murder weapon, clothing, the helmet used at the time of Blaquier’s murder and the Kawasaki Z400 motorcycle which facilitated their escape.
Before the arrests of the two teenagers, an 18-year-old girl and her boyfriend of the same age, nicknamed “Lucianito,” had been accused of the incident. However, the original prosecutor of the case, Gonzalo Agüero, of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 4 of Pilar, began to doubt the couple’s participation since none of them had the injuries that the true perpetrator of the crime should have presented after the fall of the stolen motorcycle.
The “conclusive evidence” against the accused
The family of the businessman and former director of the Agricultural Business of Ingenio Ledesma will be represented as an injured individual by lawyer Ramiro Salaber, who stated that “there is compelling evidence” for the accused to be considered guilty of the act.
“The person who shot Blaquier fell while fleeing on the stolen motorcycle and crashed. Later investigators found that he had gone to a hospital. Furthermore, in some images, he was not wearing a helmet and can be identified quite well“said Salaber in dialogue with Telam.
In this sense, one of the accused appeared 40 minutes after the incident at the Dupuy de Garín hospital with injuries to his face and abrasions on both knees and his hands. According to the researchers, These are “compatible brands” with a motorcycle accident.
Another of the fundamental pieces of evidence in the debate will be the analysis of an anthroposcopometric study carried out by the City Scientific Police, which compared the physiognomy of the accused with the records of the security cameras and considered physical correspondences between the footage and one of the alleged murderers.
Added to this, Testimonies from eyewitnesses to the crime will be includedthe analysis of the Kawasaki motorcycle on which the criminals were supposedly traveling and the forensic extraction of data from the phones seized in the investigation.
Who was Andrés Blaquier
The businessman Andrés Blaquier belonged to one of the most traditional families of the Argentine aristocracy, as well as the wealthiest, with the majority of its businesses linked to agricultural and livestock production. In that sense, they were cataloged in 2020 by the magazine Forbes as one of the richest families in the country, ranked 24th in the ranking with an estimated asset of 490 million dollars.
The main family activity lies in the production of Ingenio Ledesma, in Jujuy, where the cousins of the murdered businessman are part of the board of directors and shareholders, and have been dedicated to the sugar cane harvest for a century. Andrés directed the Agricultural Business branch of the Ledesma group, which succeeded La Biznaga, a business name that played an important role in Buenos Aires agricultural production for decades.
“Three fields in the province of Buenos Aires and one in Entre Ríos, it controls 52 thousand hectares and plants 35 thousand hectares of its own crops, the rest is livestock,” Blaquier himself told about the activity of his company during an interview with AgroBusinessmanin 2016. Likewise, he noted at the time that he had acquired the last of his ranches in 2000 in Pehuajó and that he was concerned so that “all of our agricultural production is sustainable.”
Considered an expert in everything that has to do with agricultural production, his friends and relatives pointed out his status as an excellent host at the barbecues and parties that he used to organize in his businesses. Blaquier lived with his family in a gated community in the Buenos Aires town of Presidente Derqui, precisely the place from which he had left with his wife on the motorcycle, being murdered shortly after.
Ezequiel, the minor who would have shot the businessman
The young man identified as Ezequiel LP is identified as the one who fired the shots that ended the life of the agronomist. The teenager was captured by police officers in a home in Villa Hidalgo, a neighborhood that belongs to the Buenos Aires district of San Martín, after coordinated work with security cameras from the municipality of Escobar.
According to the investigation, LP fired his gun and murdered Blaquier to steal his high-end BMW motorcycle. According to him, at the time of his arrest, The minor still had wounds on his face. that would have been caused after falling from the vehicle that belonged to the tycoon.
The person arrested and accused of being the perpetrator of the homicide is a native of Moreno. At the beginning of last year he allegedly killed another person, so he apparently took refuge in the Malvinas Argentinas district, from where he operated robbing in Escobar. In addition, he had another place where he used to take refuge in Tigre, where they stole a green Kawasaki, very similar to the one Blaquier’s murderers traveled with.
It is presumed that, in addition, he would have committed at least seven acts of robbery in San Miguel. In one of them the same green Kawasaki appears three days before the businessman’s crime. Ezequiel would also be involved in another criminal act in Vicente López.
After the robbery and subsequent murder of the billionaire, who lived in the country Martindale de Pilar, The teenager returned to take refuge in Morenoand then moved to San Martín, where they captured him.
Andrés Blaquier’s son called for a march in front of the courts
Through a letter spread on social networks, Pedro Blaquier, son of the victim, called for a march for this Monday morning at the door of the courts where the trial will take place. The mobilization will be at 9:30 and will have as its objective “ask for justice for dad, but also to ask for security and the right to live in peace for all of us who are still here today.” In addition, the man urged the participants to carry an Argentine flag.
“Almost a year after dad’s death, I wanted to thank you for joining us this last year, which was so complicated for us, and to tell you that We would not have gotten here without the help, company and strength that each of you gave us.“, Pedro stated at the beginning of the writing.
Added to this, Pedro considered that the judgment will be a “opportunity to set a precedent so that murderers are afraid”. “A new opportunity to make ourselves heard, to teach them that whoever does them has to pay and to show them that they not only face Justice but also a society tired of living in fear,” she stressed.
Regarding the two teenagers accused of the incident, he indicated that “There are two less murderers on the street”. “Every minute, month and year that they spend locked up has an incalculable impact that is the very life of each person, because unfortunately it can happen to anyone. This trial is an opportunity to set a precedent so that the murderers are afraid,” he said.
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