While the match between Argentina and Croatia was being played this Tuesday followingnoon for the semifinals of the World Cup, the infamous criminal José Carmona, who murdered the adolescent Gabriela Ceppi in 1986, starred in a failed and deadly escape attempt in the city de Córdoba and, in his flight, the taxi driver with whom he was traveling died.
Although he was serving his life sentence in Chaco, where he had been taken years before due to his high degree of danger, Carmona was in the Las Violetas neighborhood, in the Cordovan capital, on a temporary visit to his wife.
In this context and in full comparison of the national team, the offender escaped aboard a taxi and, according to the first versions of police sources, apparently he tried to steal the vehicle and, in the middle of a struggle, there was a crash in the intersection of Santa Ana and Félix Paz streets, which caused the death of the driver.
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Now #urgent fugitive Jose Carmona murderer of Gabriela Ceppi. collided. The robbery. A taxi driver died in the accident and fled. pic.twitter.com/8WgO5NLKRt
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Then, Carmona, 60, ran out of the place and, following entering a hypermarket in the area, stole a VW Gol brand car from a woman, intending to continue with his escape plan, but ended up crashing in the area behind the CPC of route 20.
The Police mounted an important lock operation in the southwest of the capital, which included the participation of mobiles from the Force’s Preventive Action Command (CAP), special units, members of the Recommended Special Tactics Team (ETER) and a helicopter, and finally managed to arrest the offender.
The apprehension took place following 6:30 p.m. at the corner of Luis Agote and Almirante Brown streets, in the Los Naranjos neighborhood.
It should be remembered that Carmona was the protagonist of a crime that had wide repercussions at the provincial and national level on January 15, 1986.
That night, outside a nightclub, the 46-year-old man raped and shot Gabriela Ceppi, 16, on the road to Villa Carlos Paz. For that crime, he was sentenced to life in prison.
In prison, Carmona murdered two inmates: one of them, in the former prison in the San Martín de Córdoba neighborhood, and the other, in the Chaco Penitentiary Service.
Reports by Juan Federico, Francisco Centeno and Federico Albarenque.
