The woman who was found dead floating face down in the Río de La Plata, in the area of Costanera Sur, in front of the Ecological Reserve of the City of Buenos Aires, was identified as a psychiatric patient and the main hypothesis is that it was a suicidepolice sources reported today.
The victim is a 52 year old woman –his identity is kept confidential to preserve the privacy of the family– that he suffered from psychiatric disorders and three years ago he did not take the medicationaccording to police investigations.
The police complaint regarding his whereregardings had been filed yesterday by his family in Comuna 6, and According to her mother’s account, they had argued and the woman told her: “I’m going to the river and kill myself”, something she had already said on other occasions, so they did not give it importance.
In addition, the investigations of the Neighborhood Police Station 1E found a witness who saw the woman swimming in the river.
The Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 1, in charge of Pablo Recchini, was waiting today for the results of the autopsy, but everything indicates that it was a suicide, according to the sources consulted.
The discovery occurred yesterday followingnoon at the corner of Intendente Hernán Girart and Azucena Villaflor avenues, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Puerto Madero, where members of the 1E Neighborhood Police Station of the City Police traveled following being alerted by a passer-by. regarding the presence of a corpse floating in the river.
The body was removed by City Firefighters and SAME staff confirmed the death of the woman who, at first glance, did not show injuries or signs of violence.
