Two of the grenades found in the department of Palermo/Télam
More than 90 short and long weapons and six grenades, some of them with the inscription “Montoneros”, were found by City firefighters in an apartment of a building in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo where they went to fight an early fire. police and judicial sources reported.
The owner of the apartment is businessman Jorge Mochcovsky (76), one of the owners of the Sacoa chain of entertainment and video game venues in Mar del Plata, who is outside the country, as confirmed by the spokespersons consulted.
The discovery occurred the night before last, when members of the Recoleta Barracks of the City Firefighters responded to a fire alarm in an apartment on the 15th floor of a building located at Salguero 2244, two blocks from the Alto Palermo shopping center and in the middle of the “Lengüitas” school in Las Heras Park, where its inhabitants were not present at that time.
While working in one of the rooms of the department, the officers found six grenades, four of them for rifles and two for hand, one with the inscription “Montoneros” and the other with the name of one of its founders, “Sabino Navarro”. which were delivered to the City Police Bomb Squad for handling.
More than 90 short and long weapons were also seized in the same department, which were delivered to the personnel of the Firearms Investigations Division of the Buenos Aires force, as well as three silencers and a baton, which fires shotgun cartridges.
The police investigators consulted the North Fiscal Unit and the prosecutor Matías Vila ordered that specialists from the City Police Investigation Superintendence intervene, in order to compare the weapons and their documentation and seize all the detailed elements. .
Regarding the businessman Mochcovsky, owner of the apartment and presumably the weapons, the spokesmen said that he did not appear at the scene because he was abroad, although a legal representative did appear on his behalf.
Sources from the City’s Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that he is now being investigated for the crime of “collection of weapons and illegal possession of weapons of war.”
Commissioner Matías García, in charge of the Department of Fight against Organized Crime, present at the scene, explained to the press that “the fire was caused by an electrical fault” and that, after being quickly controlled, the arsenal was found inside. from one of the rooms.
In a first count of the arsenal, García said that there were “54 handguns and 21 rifles, in addition to the cane that shoots cartridges.”
The police chief also mentioned “sheaths, primers, tips, a machine for manufacturing ammunition of various calibers, from 22 to 45,” and “7.62 bullets like those used by the FAL.”
Regarding these weapons, García indicated that many of them “are for prohibited use” and that the place where they were stored was not equipped for their safekeeping.
“Of the six grenades there were, two were hand grenades that were operational. There were four other grenades that are launched through rifles, which were apparently inactivated. The work was done very quickly, because all these elements were subjected to high temperatures,” explained the commissioner.
Furthermore, the head of the Department of Fight against Organized Crime indicated that “no detonation was made at the scene” and that “the origin of the weapons is being investigated.”
Finally, García assured that “the weapons are going to be seized and will remain at the disposal of the prosecution,” he concluded.
For his part, Deputy Commissioner Martín Ledesma, head of the Explosives Deactivation Division of the City Police Fire Department, explained that after carrying out an “inspection” of the six grenades found, it was found that the two hand grenades that were deactivated They were “of irregular manufacture” and “with their own weight and characteristics, which would justify saying that they were in optimal conditions of use and conservation.”
Regarding the other four, he confirmed that they were “projectable rifle grenades, which were checked and examined at the scene, verifying that they did not have a charge, so we can say that they were inert.”
2023-09-15 10:30:10
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