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Tucumán Police Detains Femicide Accused's Partner

Tucumán Police detained Justina Gordillo, partner of Felipe Sosa, accused of the brutal murder of Erika Álvarez. The investigation links the case to drug trafficking and the highest levels of the judiciary, revealing a complex network of corruption and impunity.


Tucumán Police Detains Femicide Accused's Partner

The Police of Tucumán detained this Sunday to Justina Gordillo, partner of former Argentine Army Infantry Lieutenant Felipe Sosa, accused of the brutal femicide of Erika Álvarez in that province. After viewing the security cameras of Sosa's house in Yerba Buena, where it was seen that the former lieutenant and Erika entered a motorcycle at 9 p.m. and, an hour later, Justina Gordillo and two other people entered, the detention of the partner of the so far only accused of femicide was ordered, which was carried out this afternoon. The pieces of a puzzle that began with the body of Erika Antonella Alvarez, naked, beaten, and wrapped in bags in a landfill, are becoming more and more numerous and point directly to drug trafficking and the Tucumán judicial power. "Anto was scared, she said they were persecuting her. We always tried to be there with her," begins to relate Milena, one of the young woman's sisters. The word of the victim's family lawyer, Carlos Garmendia, also a complainant in the Marita Verón case, is vital to begin to understand, associate, and rethink a very complex network in which the corporate power of the judicial elite operates as a lid on this pressure cooker about to explode. THE FEMICIDE OF ERIKA ÁLVAREZ: AN AVOIDABLE DEATH - The special report by CAROLINA FERNÁNDEZ Case details, according to the lawyer Who was with Felipe Sosa at the time he killed Erika Alvarez? According to Garmendia himself, Erika had been going to Sosa's house in the Yerba Buena neighborhood for about two years to have sexual encounters with Felipe Sosa and Justina Gordillo, the man's partner accused of brutally killing the young woman and then fleeing on a motorcycle that he acquired after the femicide. "Specifically, they had threesomes," the lawyer confirms. "At those parties of no more than 5 people, there was a lot of drugs,» one of the sisters declares. The perfect bait for a young woman with serious drug problems. "We understand that Carlos introduced Sosa to Antonella. But in this case, the bloody hands stain the highest link: The Supreme Court of Justice of Tucumán. Justina Gordillo, in March 2023, assumed as Prosecretary of the Court, with the signature of Daniel Leiva, Daniel Oscar Posse, Daniel Estofan, after the previous prosecretary, Mercedes Mayol, denounced Estofan for sexual harassment. Needless to say, the court member was acquitted by prosecutor Mariana Rivadeneira, a lover of acquittals and right-hand woman of the Public Prosecutor Minister, Edmundo Pirincho Jiménez. The family's lawyer denounces that both the prosecution and the police are hiding information, and the last straw was a call from Commissioner Susana Montero, head of the Tucumán homicide division, to the family of Érika (not Garmendia) to identify the victim on the security cameras. It was a habit.