Tomas Lautaro Krüger, 19 years olda rugby player for the Mariano Moreno Club, was returning home this morning aboard a black Toyota Hilux truck owned by his father. I had gone to a party. The young man reached the entrance to the private neighborhood where he lives in Moreno’s party, when a patrol car hit him and that’s where the nightmare began.
Security cameras captured much of the sequence. After being hit by the patrol car, the driver backed up and tried to escape. There, the two policemen pointed the gun at him. The truth is that the rugby He was shot three times by officers, who are being investigated for the attack.
Tomás was driving along Provincial Route No. 7, which in this section is General San Martín Avenue, in the direction of the Álvarez del Bosque private neighborhood, where he lives with his family. According to the first information, he would have passed several red lights on the way, so a patrol car from the Buenos Aires Police began to follow him to try to stop him. The truth is
Before the stop voice, the driver would have accelerated to flee the operation and, when he stopped in front of the gated community and while waiting for the security personnel to allow him to enter, the patrol car that was following him pounced on the truck and rammed her from the side.
The cameras that recorded from various angles what happened at the door of the Áñvarez del Bosque private neighborhood are key to the case. there it was seen how Tomás decided to go back a few meters to try to escape from the place, but he did not succeed because one of the front wheels had been damaged in the crash, which caused that following a few meters he lost control of the vehicle and the truck overturned into a ditch on the side of the road.
There more patrol cars joined, which also stopped next to the Hilux, and of which Two agents got out and pointed their service weapon at the truck. Tomás was dragged out and thrown in the ditch. As confirmed to Infobae from research sources, he was shot in his right arm and the other two in his legs.
After the attack, the rugbier was urgently transferred to the Mariano and Luciano de la Vega de Moreno Hospital, where he continues to be hospitalized: he has an upper limb fracture due to the crash.
The cause is investigated by prosecutor Federico Sonoraowner of the Moreno’s UFI Nº4, which is awaiting the results of the Federal Police’s ballistics expertise. Although the two investigated police officers are not detained. They are accused of injuries. “It is a very provisional qualification”, a researcher noted this morning.
father’s word
“The truth is that it is one thing that you cannot believe that a patrol car comes without the lights from above running it. They collided with him and my son with a broken arm left because he was afraid, he got here 50 meters away, where they can still see him with the bullet wounds and the impact of the crash,” Carlos, Tomás’s father, said this morning in dialogue with Chronicle. “For me, my son was born once more”.
“I lent him the truck so he wouldn’t take the bus and nothing would happen to him and suddenly I found out that the police had shot him three times at the door of my house. He is crazy”, said. “My son passed out and they had him handcuffed in the mud with three shots to the body and with hypothermia that he had. It seemed like a nightmare, it didn’t seem real.”
And he added: “The policeman told me: ‘He’s driving a black van with tinted windows and you don’t know if one person, two or four are going.’ And I say yes, but it’s not a reason to shoot him. Later they tell me that he crouched down and that’s why they shot him and I tell him ‘but if you tell me that you mightn’t see it through the dark windows!’”.
The word of Sergio Berni
A few hours following the events occurred, the Minister of Security of the province of Buenos Aires, Sergio Bernigave his opinion on the subject and remarked that, although he cannot “say whether or not there was a bad police action” because he was not at the scene, the two officers who opened fire “They are not recent graduates, they have experience and an intermediate degree.”
“The version I have is that it looked like he was going to shoot. Put yourself in the place of a police officer who is in front of a person, at night, who does not even see what is inside the vehicle, and who can be an easy target for someone they have been chasing,” he explained.
In dialogue with journalists Carolina Amoroso and Nicolás Wiñazki on the program Beauty and BeastIn the channel TNthe official assured that the rugbier “Three patrol cars followed him” and noted that “the versions indicate that he made a movement as if he were armed” when he was surrounded by the two uniformed men.
“It strikes me that the two officers have reacted at the same time, therefore, we have to see what the prosecutor is going to say. For now, (the troops) are obviously separated preventively (from the force), but it seems to me that we will have to ask ourselves why (the 19-year-old) did not stopand that two officers have made the decision to shoot simultaneously, it is very rare, “he concluded.
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