The man arrested by femicide of the Brazilian Eduarda Santyou, Fernando Alves Ferreiraconfessed to being the author of the crime committed on a trail in the Circuito Chico, in Bariloche. “I plead guilty, I killed her”declared Alves Ferreira, also a Brazilian national, during the impeachment hearing in which he was sentenced to preventive detention for four months for the events.
The defendant testified before the criminal judge Sergio Pichetto, and prosecutors Gerardo Miranda and Martín Lozada, at a hearing in which the evidence once morest him was presented. In raids carried out yesterday, the Rio Negro Police had seized a Chevrolet from Alves Ferreira, in which the experts found what appeared to be blood stainsfor which expert reports were ordered to determine if they belonged to the victim.
Sources of the investigation confirmed that they also found “deformed plumes” (projectiles) close to the victim’s body. This evidence, added to the injuries found in the autopsy, which established that the woman died from a gunshot, feed the hypothesis of the investigators, who believe that Santos and Alves Ferreira might have started fighting inside the car, from which the woman got out and She was chased by the aggressor, who caught up with her and shot her to death.
“In addition to the gunshot wounds, the woman had injuries from beatings. There might have been a fight, fight and struggle in the car and that the victim got out to try to escape the femicide, who chased her and killed her, “explained one of the investigators.
Another fact that emerged from the investigation is that Alves Ferreira had two twin children with Santos, but that those children were listed as his children and that of a man, now deceased, with whom he had previously been married.
Santos’ body was discovered Thursday morning on a path in Circuito Chico, in the area of Lago Escondido, a few meters from Provincial Route 77 and near the tourist port of Puerto Pañuelo, in front of the renowned Barilochese Llao Llao hotel.
