Palermo: A pensioner was killed in his apartment

This is Saúl Hilu, who was found dead by his daughter last Friday at noon in his apartment on Paunero Street at 2,700, almost corner Cabello, one block from Las Heras Park, where he residedA researcher assured Télam that the man, who was found handcuffed on his feet, died of a suffocation produced with a pillow and that the date of death would be within the first 24 hours if the body had been found.” We believe he entered with someone he knew, because there is no violence at the door,” said the same researcher. Although there were no signs of violence at the entrance door to the apartment, the house was scrambled and several drawers were open, so it is investigated if one or more people were involved in the event. On the same day that Hilu’s body was discovered, personnel from the City Police’s Homicide Division hijacked several security cameras from the building and other public spaces with the aim of capturing suspicious people in the area and the building where the man lived. The fact was discovered on Friday by a daughter and an employee inside the bathroom of the building. Officers from the Neighborhood Police Station 14C were alerted and found that the man was dead face down, with his ankles tied with a transparent packing tape. According to sources, staff observed that there was a large mess in the apartment and open drawers, although there were no signs of violence at the entrance door. According to the spokesmen, Hilu was the father-in-law of the funeral director of the Association of Argentine Israelite Mutuals (AMIA). In the case, labeled in principle as “homicide investigation”, the prosecutor Lucio Herrera of the Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office 9 intervenes, who ordered the corresponding experts.

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