2-Year Prison for Members of “Los Monos” Accused of Murders, Shootings

Eleven of the three accused of five homicides committed in recent months in the Santa Fe city of Rosario, as part of an inmate of the barrabrava of Newell’s Old Boys linked to the narco-gang “Los Monos”, and for the shooting at the supermarket of Lionel Messi’s father-in-law will be in preventive detention for two years, judicial sources reported today. The decision was made by Rosario criminal judge Héctor Núñez Cartelle when analyzing the requests for precautionary measures of a team of prosecutors who accused prisoner Pablo Nicolás Caminos and twelve other people of forming an illicit association. The judge accepted the requests for preventive detention for the accused, with the exception of two cases in which he granted house arrest to a woman and freedom with restrictions to a young man, spokesmen for the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPA) said. According to the investigation by MPA prosecutors, the events include five homicides, several shootings and cases of public intimidation. One of the most resonant was the shooting at the “Único” supermarket, owned by José Roccuzzo, father-in-law of soccer star Lionel Messi, on March 2. According to investigators, the twelve shots fired in front of the store located in Lavalle at 2500 Rosario were fired “in order to instill fear and intimidate the inhabitants of the city of Rosario,” in the midst of a dispute between internal cells of “Los Monos.” Most of these events have been planned by the leaders of these sectors from their places of detention,” said prosecutor Luis Schiappa Pietra.

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