(Buenos Aires) An Argentinian journalist who exposed police violence in Argentina’s northern province of Corrientes was found hanged in her home, police sources said on Sunday that she is a homicide.
The body of Griselda Blanco, 45, was discovered by one of her brothers on Saturday in her home in Curuzu Cuatia, 600 km north of Buenos Aires. The suicide hypothesis was quickly dismissed, and a former companion of the journalist, suspected of the murder, was arrested, indicated the same sources.
The victim bore signs of beatings, hair was found in her hands – which suggests that she tried to defend herself – and no trace of a break-in was found at her home, he said. added from the same source.
M’s familyme Blanco, however, said he doubted the guilt of the ex-companion, Armando Jara, also a journalist. “I don’t think this should be called feminicide. […] In my opinion, Jara has nothing to do with any of this, even if we are awaiting the expert reports and their results, ”said Lautaro Cesani, one of the sons that the victim had had with another companion.
According to Mr. Cesani, Griselda Blanco had received threats after having published, on her local news website entitled “Griselda Blanco Noticias”, articles on alleged violence attributed to the police of the province of Corrientes as well as a case negligence in a hospital.
The public prosecutor’s office withdrew the investigation from the local police and handed it over to the Argentine federal police.
The Argentine Federation of Press Workers (Fatpren) expressed in a statement its “deep concern”, stressing that “the colleague had denounced embezzlement within the local hospital and the political and police power”.