{"id":96170,"date":"2025-09-28T15:17:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=96170"},"modified":"2025-09-28T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:17:58","slug":"argentines-demand-justice-at-protest-against-brutal-killings-of-young-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=96170","title":{"rendered":"Argentines demand justice at protest against brutal killings of young women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thousands of people have taken part in an anti-femicide protest in Buenos Aires, demanding justice for a girl and two young women who were tortured and murdered in a crime that has shocked Argentina.<\/p>\n

The brutal killings of Lara Gutierrez, 15, and Morena Verdi and Brenda del Castillo, both 20, were livestreamed on social media.<\/p>\n

Police believe a drug-trafficking gang was responsible, and that the crime was broadcast as a warning to others.<\/p>\n

They had arrested five suspects \u2013 three men and two women \u2013 as of Friday, according to National Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, but a 20-year-old Peruvian man they say is the group\u2019s leader remains at large.<\/p>\n

The victims were lured into a van believing they were headed for a party on 19 September, according to investigators.<\/p>\n

But authorities said this was part of a plan to \u201cpunish\u201d the girl and young women for violating gang code, serving as a warning to others.<\/p>\n

One of the detainees revealed a video of the incident under questioning, according to Javier Alonso, security minister for the Buenos Aires province.<\/p>\n

In it, a gang leader is heard saying: \u201cThis is what happens to those who steal drugs from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities have released a photograph of the alleged Peruvian mastermind in the hope he is recognised.<\/p>\n

The bodies of the three victims were found buried at a property in a southern suburb of Buenos Aires on Wednesday, five days after they went missing.<\/p>\n

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In Buenos Aires, relatives of the victims joined a march to Parliament on Saturday, demanding justice for the women and girl.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen must be protected more than ever,\u201d Brenda\u2019s father, Leonel del Castillo, told reporters at the protest.<\/p>\n

He had earlier said it was impossible for him to identify his daughter\u2019s body due to the abuse inflicted on her.<\/p>\n

Antonio del Castillo, grandfather of the 20-year-old cousins, was in tears as he called the killers \u201cbloodthirsty\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t do what they did to them to an animal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

One woman is killed by a man every 36 hours in Argentina, according to a femicide monitoring group in the country cited by Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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