Argentina’s Chaco province (north) is in turmoil today over a case authorities have already classified as femicide, the disappearance and possible death of Cecilia Strzyzowksi, 28, daughter-in-law of a pair of social leaders linked to the local government.

Strzyzowksi was last seen on June 2, when a security camera filmed her entering her in-laws’ house in Resistencia, the capital of Chaco, and was never seen leaving.

In the case, which was filed June 6, the Chaco Special Prosecutor Team indicted his partner, César Sena, as a co-perpetrator of triple homicide with aggravated relationship due to the premeditated conspiracy of two or more people and in a context of gender violence (femicide); Moreover, the medical reports confirmed that he has scratches on his neck.

There are six other defendants: the young woman’s in-laws, Marcela Acuña and Emerenciano Sena, as co-perpetrators of aggravated murder by the conspiracy of two or more people in the first degree; the in-laws’ landlord, Gustavo Melgarejo, two other employees, Griselda Reinoso and Gustavo Obregón; and an anonymous detainee, as secondary participants in the aggravated murder.

The Sena family’s lawyer, Juan Díaz, decided to withdraw from the case because he was “not convinced” of his defendants’ innocence. He did this by reviewing the documentation presented after the case went from “disappearance of persons” to “feminicide”.

“My daughter is dead, I’m not going to get my daughter back,” Gloria Romero, Strzyzowksi’s mother, declared a few days ago, stating that a police officer had promised her, before classifying the case as femicide, that he would “bring it body”

One of the hypotheses the prosecutors are working with is that the woman was murdered and dismembered, for which reason several searches have been carried out on Sena’s property, resulting in no finding of Strzyzowksi’s remains for now.

The investigators found traces of blood and seized four cars, “considerable” amounts of money, ammunition and bladed weapons, among other things.

The case shocks Argentine society, as the political and social power of the accused family is added to the atrocity of the alleged crime.

Sena is the “most feared mobster in Chaco,” said the lawyer for the victim’s mother and aunt, Carina Gómez, who claimed to have been pressured by the provincial justice minister.

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Meanwhile, Chaco governor, pro-government Jorge Capitanich, who introduced Emerenciano Sena’s autobiography and witnessed his wedding, has remained silent in Sunday’s primary election campaign, for which the woman’s in-laws were running. to different loads.

The opposition has highlighted the “deafening” silence from both the Chaco and national governments and is demanding justice.