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Nadia Galán

Redactora de Policiales de Diario Perfil.

Nahir Galarza - Thomsen, Comelli, Luciano y Ciro Pertossi y Benicelli - Magdalena Espósito Valenti y Abigail Paez - Aldana Roarno Díaz.

Around 4% of Argentina’s prison population serving life terms

23-02-2023 11:17 According to data from 2021, there were 55,933 convicts jailed nationwide, of whom 2,489 were sentenced to life imprisonment, according to national statistics. Of these, 726 are serving their sentences in Buenos Aires provincial penitentiaries, where the eight individuals recently sentenced for the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa are now being detained.

by Nadia Galán

Comodoro Rivadavia Judge Mariel Suárez denies kissing a prisoner at a jail in Trelew.

COURTS & JUDICIARY

Chubut judge who allegedly kissed inmate faces impeachment trial

28-11-2022 15:26 Chubut magistrate Mariel Alejandra Suárez was denounced before judicial authorities last January after a video was made public showing her allegedly kissing an inmate at a prison at Trelew. She denies the allegations against her, but Magistrates Council rules she should face impeachment trial for “poor performance” of duties.

by Nadia Galán

Shootings. Los Monos began to be investigated after the crime of Luis 'Fantasma' Paz, Claudio 'Pájaro' Cantero's brother-in-law.

CRIME & SECURITY

Nine years after murder which triggered a bloodbath, warfare rages on in Rosario

02-06-2022 15:51 In the small hours of May 26, 2013 two hitmen gunned down 29-year-old Los Monos gang leader Claudio Cantero in front of a nightclub. That same year homicides rose 71 percent from the previous year. Ever since then, the violence has continued with 241 murders last year – the highest tally of the last six years.

by Nadia Galán

CRIME & SECURITY

Murder in El Mirasol: Unsolved case in the village of 45 residents

28-05-2022 12:00 In December 2015, Bernardino ‘Tuti’ Tolosa was found handcuffed and murdered in the small village of El Mirasol, Chubut Province. Almost seven years on, investigators have not been able to identify the perpetrators, nor the motive for the crime.

by Nadia Galán

Claudia Repetto, Cristina Cattaneo, Cristina Iglesias y su hija Ada, Florencia Santa Cruz, Jesica Minaglia, María Julieta Riera, Rocío Ocampo, Romina Videla and Verónica Tottis.

Gender Violence

NGO: More than 70 femicides in Argentina during quarantine period

26-06-2020 00:01 71% of the femicides took place in the victim's home, according to the latest report from the La Casa del Encuentro NGO.

by Nadia Galán

Paola Córdoba and her daughter Milagros asking for acquittal at the 8M Womens March.

Domestic Violence

Domestic abuse victim who killed her husband demands justice

29-04-2020 14:00 Paula Córdoba suffered 20 years of domestic abuse, and killed her husband in 2019 with her daughter’s help, stabbing him 185 times in the process. She's now free, but she feels like the State has abandoned her, she explains.

by Nadia Galán

Some of the men accused in the Independiente child sexual abuse case.

CHILD SEX ABUSE SCANDAL

One year on, Independiente child sexual abuse case remains slow-moving

18-04-2019 09:00 Investigators have still not analysed suspects’ phones. Psychological and psychiatric tests of three victims are also outstanding. And three defendants are out of jail. There is much left to resolve in the shocking football sex abuse scandal that erupted last year at Independiente.

by Nadia Galán