Paraguayan domestic worker detained over killing of Magalí Levy in Recoleta
Magalí Levy, a mother of two and teacher, was found murdered in her Recoleta apartment on 7 March 2025. Her domestic worker was detained in Misiones this week.
Who was Magalí Levy and how the suspect's detention came about
Magalí Yael Levy was 28 years old, a mother of two and worked as a teacher at the Martín Buber School in Palermo, an institution from which she had also graduated. According to infobae.com, her death on 7 March 2025 shocked the Jewish community of Buenos Aires and those who knew her. Twenty months later, the detention of the woman who had worked in her home returned the case to the centre of public attention.
Magalí lived with her husband, Alberto Yoel Arazi, and their children in an apartment at Sánchez de Bustamante 1200, in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Recoleta. She had studied Labour Relations at the University of Buenos Aires. That morning she took the children to school and was supposed to pick them up at midday. She never arrived.
The discovery and autopsy
Staff at the educational institution contacted Arazi when Magalí failed to appear. The man went to the family apartment and found his wife murdered: she was tied at the feet and hands. The autopsy determined that she died from a double mechanism of asphyxiation, with a bag over her head and signs of strangulation.
Valuable objects were missing from the home, including a safe that had been ripped from the wall.
The judicial reconstruction
The investigation established that at around 12 o'clock on 7 March, Elcira Giménez González entered the building. She had begun working as a domestic employee in that home that same week. Hall cameras recorded her entering with the access door open.
Around 13:00, a man arrived who claimed to be a neighbour to a resident who was entering the building at that moment. Investigators have identified him as an accomplice of Giménez González. Both left at around 13:35.
According to the judicial reconstruction, two days before the crime Giménez González had visited the apartment for the first time. Her contact had reached Magalí through the circle of a friend. Investigators suspect that this first visit may have been used to scout out the apartment and observe the family's movements.
Institutional reactions
Following news of the crime, the Martín Buber School issued a message of support: "With profound sadness, we embrace the Levy family in this tragic moment, remembering with affection Magalí, a much-loved alumna and former teacher of our school."
The rabbi of the Argentine Mutual Israeli Association (AMIA), Eliahu Hamra, also made a public statement. "We are shocked by the murder of Magali Yael Levy z'l, 28 years old, in the neighbourhood of Recoleta," he wrote. In his message he named the victim's husband and parents, and demanded: "We call on the authorities for the immediate clarification and punishment of those responsible for this atrocity."
The case is being handled by the National Criminal and Corrective Prosecution Office No. 56, led by prosecutor Edgardo Orfila.
Detention in Misiones and Paraguayan connections
Giménez González, of Paraguayan nationality, was detained this week in Misiones province after presenting herself as a suspected trafficking victim during a National Gendarmerie checkpoint. Fingerprint comparison revealed that she was subject to a national and international arrest warrant for her alleged participation in the homicide of Magalí.
Her brother, Iván Giménez González, had been arrested in Paraguay in April 2025. The case is also searching for Sixto Fabián Araújo Amarilla, the partner of the detained woman, who remains at large.
Source: Google News PY — Crime