Arrested in Misiones with false ID: fugitive wanted for homicide in Recoleta transferred to Buenos Aires
Elcira Giménez González, sought for the murder of Magalí Levy in Recoleta, was captured in Posadas after presenting a false document and claiming to be a trafficking victim.
Captured in Posadas with false identity, she was a fugitive for a crime in Recoleta
She had been a fugitive from justice for one year and eight months. Last Tuesday, personnel from the Grupo Azara, a unit of Squadron 8 Alto Uruguay of the National Gendarmerie, intercepted a private vehicle operating as a taxi in Posadas, Misiones. One of the passengers presented an ID that was not hers and claimed to be a victim of human trafficking. The operation did not withstand investigation. According to reports from lanacion.com.ar, it was Elcira Giménez González, 28 years old, a Paraguayan citizen with an international arrest warrant for the homicide of Magalí Levy, a young woman murdered in her flat in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Recoleta in March of last year.
In recent hours, Giménez González was transferred to Buenos Aires to be questioned about her alleged involvement in that crime. She was held at the Buenos Aires squadron of the National Gendarmerie, located in the Retiro neighbourhood, sources from the federal force confirmed to the newsroom.
Fingerprint protocols revealed the truth
The National Gendarmerie explained the procedure that made it possible to identify her: "Investigative work detected that the suspect presented an ID that was not hers and, following all corresponding protocols, it was possible to corroborate that she was not being subjected to the crime of human trafficking. Fingerprint examinations were fundamental in discovering that she was part of a criminal organisation specialised in organised theft and had an international arrest warrant requested by the Interpol Department of the Argentine Federal Police for the murder of a young woman in her flat in Recoleta."
The vehicle was stopped on provincial route no. 1 in Posadas. Giménez González was not travelling alone: a Chinese national was also aboard. The authorities found that both passengers had entered the country irregularly. The National Immigration Directorate and the Posadas Fiscal Unit then intervened, which ordered the expulsion of the Chinese citizen.
The Recoleta crime
Magalí Levy was found dead on 9 March in the afternoon in her flat at Sánchez de Bustamante street, number 1200, in Recoleta. Personnel from the Neighbourhood Police Station 2B of the City Police found the place ransacked and with missing objects, among them a safe. Levy, 28 years old, died by asphyxiation.
Initial investigations established that a woman who worked as a domestic employee for the family had entered the flat that morning, hired not long before. That woman was Giménez González. Shortly afterwards, an unknown man also entered for those close to the victim. Both left the place together.
Two detained, one still at large
Nearly a month after the crime, and following the activation of international alerts, Paraguayan security forces detained Iván Giménez González, 20 years old, in that country in the city of San Pedro de Paraná, in the Itapúa department.
In the same case, Sixto Fabián Araújo Amarilla, 30 years old, identified as the partner of Giménez González, remains at large.
Source: Google News AR — Buenos Aires