In the last hours they appeared new images of the suspect of the murder of Mariano Barbierihe 42-year-old civil engineer, who died after being stabbed in Palermo. Although it could not yet be identified, according to the images and the description of the witnesses, the investigators affirm that it is a 30-year-old man and approximately 1.70 meters.
the videos of security cameras show it with a group of people on the streets hours before attacking Barbieri to steal his cell phone, in a square in Palermo near the place where the crime occurred, in the same Buenos Aires neighborhood.
“It is filmed in a ‘ranchada’ in a nearby plaza hours before the event. It matches the description given by the eyewitness, who also indicated the time of the attack and his escape. His face is blurred since the cameras that capture him are in height”, a researcher told Télam. Previous audiovisual records had already confirmed the direction he took after the attack in the Three of February Park.
The description of the witness indicates that it is “a man with an average age of 30 years old and wearing a red sweatshirt, jeans and sneakers“. The Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor 36, Marcelo Munilla Lacasaand agents from the Homicide Division of the City Police, continue to analyze the footage from the area to obtain a more accurate image of the suspect, who has not yet been identified.
In parallel, the prosecution awaits the genetic results to the blood stains found on the knife tramontina type that the attacker allegedly used to stab the victim. “There are partial fingerprints on the blade of the knife,” they told telamalthough they clarified that, even so, “it is difficult” to achieve an identification.
Furthermore, they reported that could not advance in the geolocation of the cell phone Motorola brand stolen, since “it is turned off”.
The murder of engineer Mariano Barbieri
At 10:45 p.m. last Wednesday, Barbieri was robbed inside of the park three of February, near the Japanese Garden. The thief, who wanted to steal his cell phone, stabbed him in the chest and fled. The victim managed to ask for help at an ice cream parlor in the area, but died shortly after at the Fernández Hospital. There are still no detainees for the death of the civil engineer.
According to the autopsy, the engineer died of a single stab that entered between six and seven centimeters in the thorax and it affected him heartaccording to the report of the autopsy.
According to the images from a security camera installed at the intersection of Avenida Del Libertador and Lafinur, the man entered the store and approached the counter to ask for help. Seconds later he collapsed to the ground. A customer tried to help you while local employees called 911 to report the situation.
Witnesses who saw the situation reported that, before dying, Barbieri repeated: “I don’t want to die“As they indicated, he was aware of the situation and even came to tell the police what had happened to him.
Maricel, Barbieri’s widow and mother of her three-month-old baby, said that the engineer I had gone to the park to meditate. “I am entering the park to do a meditation on the full moon,” Barbieri sent an audio to a friend of his minutes before the attack, which is believed to have been “by surprise” while looking at the sky.
“There was a hand-to-hand fight, brief, where he asked for help. This makes it believe that he defended himself at least,” explained a person with access to the case, according to Télam.
