( Spanish) – – His latest searches on Google denote his illusion of making a trip that never materialized: how to pack a suitcase, where to buy chocolates in Buenos Aires, where to drink good coffee in Buenos Aires. However, Cecilia Strzyzowski’s final destination was the house of her couple’s parents, in Resistencia, Chaco province. At least that’s what the Argentine prosecutor’s office believes, which is investigating her disappearance ―reported on June 6― as a femicide.
All of Argentina is pending the case of Strzyzowski, the 28-year-old girl who was last seen alive on June 1, when she got into the truck of her partner, César Sena, to supposedly start a plane trip from the airport. from Corrientes, first to Buenos Aires and then to Ushuaia.
this is what we know
The last known images of Strzyzowski were recorded by a security camera in a house in front of the house of the parents of the young woman’s couple, Emerenciano Sena and Marcela Acuña. Admission was on June 2 at 9:16 AM (local time).
“We understand that César took Cecilia deceived to the home of Santa María de Oro 1460, with the promise of a trip with a work trip, a trip that never existed,” Jorge Cáceres Olivera, one of the prosecutors in charge of the investigation, told . investigation.
The prosecutors in the case detailed this Thursday at a press conference that Strzyzowski was very excited about this trip.
“Since he had never traveled to Buenos Aires, he told his friends and family that he was afraid of traveling by plane. In addition, the last Google searches of her were how to pack a suitcase, what can be carried in the suitcase on a plane, where to buy chocolates in Buenos Aires, where to have the best coffee in Buenos Aires (…) So, one goes looking with these data that she not only believed in that story of the trip, but was also excited,” Jorge Gómez, another of the prosecutors in the case, said at the conference.
In the case, it was incorporated as evidence that “tickets were never purchased, they never made a reservation, not even by land or by air,” according to prosecutors.
Cecilia Strzyzowski was reported missing by her mother on June 6
Gloria Romero, the young woman’s mother, reported the disappearance of her daughter on June 6 at the Third Resistencia Police Station.
Why is it being investigated as an alleged femicide? What indications are there that Cecilia was murdered?
The same camera that captured Strzyzowski entering the Sena home did not record that he left the place alive, according to authorities. Instead, the prosecution said that it was able to detect, also through these images, the Sena “in a very suspicious attitude.”
“(They left) approximately after 6:00 p.m., they left that house with garbage bags, in a very suspicious attitude, which is also incorporated with another proof that there, under that garbage bag, would be Cecilia’s body, in a brown blanket, which would belong to the Sena family’s house,” Gómez said at the press conference.
On the other hand, during the inspections, skeletal remains were found that will now be examined to find out if it is the body of Strzyzowski.
“It was possible to corroborate something very important, that in the field of the Sena family, in what was commonly called a pig farm (farm), in a certain place there was a burn, that in that burn bone remains were found that correspond to a human person ”, added the prosecutor.
“Also in the Tragadero river, which is very close, human skeletal remains of an adult person were found,” said the researcher, adding that all the remains found correspond to the same person.
The prosecution investigates the disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski as a femicide
“Regarding the remains, they are quite degraded,” prosecutor Cáceres Olivera explained to . He added that they were sent to Córdoba, where they will be analyzed by the forensic anthropology team.
What would be the motive for the alleged femicide?
“We believe there was a conflict between Cecilia and César’s parents,” prosecutor Cáceres Olivera told .
On the day of Strzyzowski’s disappearance, the prosecutor’s office confirmed, based on testimony, that Sena was seen at approximately 11 am “without having any injury to his neck or hand,” prosecutor Gómez said in a conference. “In the afternoon, they already see him with neck and hand injuries,” he added. For the prosecution, this would indicate a possible confrontation between victim and perpetrator.
“(That day) César and Cecilia’s cell phones moved together, when we believe that Cecilia had already been murdered,” said Gómez. “And so, we have a number of tests that were incorporated,” he said.
What charges are prosecutors asking suspects to bring?
There are seven defendants for the alleged femicide of Strzyzowski: his partner, César Sena; his parents, Emerenciano Sena and Marcela Acuña; the driver José Gustavo Obregón and his wife, Fabiana González; the landlord of the Sena field, Gustavo Melgarejo, and his partner, Griselda Reinoso.
César Sena was accused by the prosecution of “homicide triply aggravated by the bond, by the premeditation and the participation of two or more people, and for having been committed in the context of gender violence or femicide.”
Emerenciano Sena and Marcela Acuña were accused by the prosecution of “aggravated homicide by the premeditation of two or more people.”
The other four suspects are charged with “aggravated concealment.”
The prosecutor’s office requested this Thursday preventive detention for the seven.
Ricardo Osuna, César Cena’s lawyer, told the media that, for the moment, his client is not going to testify. Regarding the accusations of the prosecution, the defender maintained that “there are indications and presumptions, there is nothing concrete.”
Emerenciano Sena’s lawyer has supported the innocence of his defendant, during at least three contacts with .
is trying to find out how the rest of the defendants plead.
How is the case going?
On the one hand, the prosecutors are awaiting the results of the analyzes on the skeletal remains found in the raids. These studies can take several weeks. It must be considered that the remains were found charred and also in the water, so their state may make expert reports difficult.
“We understand that the study usually takes a month. And they also told us that there is a possibility that there will be no result,” said prosecutor Nelia Velázquez at a press conference.
On the other hand, the prosecution is also analyzing various items that were seized during the investigation.
“We are waiting for the reports of the different seized electronic devices to finish arriving,” prosecutor Cáceres Olivera told .
With information from Marcelo López
