He lender who is on the run as the alleged perpetrator of the femicide of his partner Ferni Ayalamurdered last week with two shots at her home in the Zavaleta de Barracas neighborhood, is already listed on a red alert and among the most wanted by Interpol (the International Police), judicial sources reported.
Is regarding Esteban Rojas Almada (45), a Paraguayan nationalwho seven days ago -when the crime was discovered-, is with a national and international arrest warrant for the femicide of who was his girlfriend and concubine.
Rojas’ file, with his personal data and a photograph, appears with “red notice” (red alert), among Interpol’s most wanted fugitives, on its international website.
The notice indicates that the Paraguayan defendant is wanted by the Argentine justice and under the imputation of a “homicide aggravated by the bond, by its commission by a man, once morest a woman, mediating gender violence and through the use of a firearm”.
The inclusion of Rojas among the most wanted of Interpol responds to a request from the judge in charge of the case, Mariano Iturralde, head of the National Criminal and Correctional Court 16.
Despite the fact that the case is in summary secrecy and that detectives from the Homicide Division of the City Police have been working since day one, judicial sources indicated that Judge Iturralde now joined the search for the fugitive, to the Intelligence Department once morest Organized Crime of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA).
The investigators’ main suspicion is that Rojas, who has financial resources, He might be taking refuge somewhere in the interior of the country, or even having managed to escape to his native country, Paraguay.through some clandestine passage or with false documentation, in the almost 24 hours he had to flee from the time the crime was committed until it was discovered.
How was the femicide of Ferni Ayala
The femicide of Ferni Ayala (28) was committed at dawn on February 19, on the first floor of house 187 located on Lavardén street, block 18, from the 21-24 Zavaleta neighborhood, located in Barracas, south of the City of Buenos Aires, but it was discovered the next day, early Monday morning.
Agents of the Neighborhood Police Station 4D were summoned to the place and found that Ayala was lying murderedfollowing two of the victim’s sisters who hours before had filed the complaint to find out whereregardings, broke down the door of the apartment with the help of a neighbor and found the body.
Upon entering the house, the uniformed officers found Ferni’s body lying in a room, face up, dressed in bedding and with at least two bullet wounds to the chest.
In turn, the experts found that Ayala had been dead for several hours.
After conducting a survey of testimonies, the police investigators and the investigating prosecutor Pablo Recchini identified the now fugitive Rojas as a possible suspect in the crimewho was the victim’s partner and who was seen arguing with her at the exit of the “Radio Studio” nightclub in the Constitución neighborhood, on Sunday morning.
The victim’s family told the press and investigators that a comment regarding an ex-partner of Ferni’s, made that night by a friend of the victim and which angered Rojas, might have been the motive for the femicide.
Some Neighbors have already declared that that morning they saw the two arrive at their house in the Zavaleta neighborhood, but they saw Rojas leave the building alone and leave in a car.
Although it was thought that the defendant, who is dedicated to lending money, might be fleeing in his car, a white Honda Civic that had a kidnapping order throughout the country, the vehicle appeared last Wednesday followingnoon parked at the intersection of California and Santa Elena streetsin Barracks.
Although there are no previous complaints by Ferni towards Rojas for gender violence, the victim’s family told the press that the victim said that The man was “very jealous” and checked his cell phone.
Besides, an ex-partner of the defendant who lives in the same building where the murder occurreddeclared in the file that he suffered physical, psychological and economic violence from the defendant.
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