40-year-old man was stabbed to death at his home in the Santa Fe city of Reconquista. According to judicial sources, a group that works for the rights of sexual minorities denounced that it is a "hate crime". The victim was identified as Roberto Monje.
Judicial sources informed Télam that the body was found yesterday at his home, in Ludueña 1020, by the domestic employee, who when arriving at the place did not receive responses from the man. The woman went to the area where Monje worked and asked employers if they knew anything about the man, but they replied that they had not heard from him since Friday, so they decided to alert the police. Upon arriving at the victim's house, the officers warned that the door was open and that Monk was lying dead in the bathroom, with several stab wounds to his body.
After the discovery , prosecutor Alejandro Rodríguez, from the Public Prosecutor's Office (MPA), intervened , who ordered the corresponding autopsy and a series of expert reports at the home where a broken glass and traces of blood were found.
For its part, the Vanesa Zabala Front, which bears that name in tribute to Vanesa Zabala, a transvestite murdered in 2013, denounced through her social networks that it was a hate crime. Read more via La Nacion
A man was arrested for the death of Roberto Monje
A 19-year-old man was detained since early Tuesday morning for the murder of the LGBT + activist from Reconquista. Among his belongings were things stolen from the house and a bloody jacket. Carlos Vallejos, 19 , was detained in the early hours of this Tuesday after a search that began at 2 in the morning at his home in the América de Reconquista neighborhood.
The young man was taken by at least eight security cameras that are in various shops and institutions near Roberto Monje's house. This, was a sexual diversity activist who was found dead last Saturday.
The investigators advanced the weekend with many testimonies that allowed to find the suspect.
Hate crime
Social organizations denounced that Monje's death was a hate crime, due to his sexual orientation and political activism . Roberto Monjes, 40, was found dead at his home at 1020 Ludueña Street. Read more via Sin Mordaza