Santa Fe Government to Protect Prosecutor Threatened by “Los Monos”

The Government of the province of Santa Fe announced today on its Twitter account that it will provide protection to the Rosario prosecutor Matías Edery, who yesterday was threatened by Lorena Verdún, widow of the “Pájaro” Cantero, during a hearing in the trial for extortion of merchants who follow “Lucho” Cantero, of the narco gang “Los Monos”. The government of the province announced: “Through the Ministry of Security we made available to the prosecutor Matías Edery everything he requires for his protection after threats received.”

From the Government of the Province, through the @MinSegSF, we made available to the prosecutor Matías Edery everything he requires for his protection after threats received. We will continue to work together with the Justice to cut ties with crime. — Government of Santa Fe (@GobSantaFe)
January 23, 2022

Lorena Verdun was detained last Monday when a judge ordered her to be held in pretrial detention, within the framework of a series of raids carried out in the Las Flores neighborhood, on the southern end of Rosario.Verdún maintained that the investigators of the case have a special cruelty with her family, said that during the raids last Monday there were illegal acts and ended up addressing the prosecutor Matías Edery who accused her, “With all due respect I tell the prosecutor that this is not going to stay that way.” Before finishing his proposal, he had some striking words for Judge Negroni, to whom he pointed out: “Look what he is going to do, this prosecutor always grabs it with the Canteros.” 

Original source in Spanish