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‘Narco-femicide’ – Argentine police hunt Peruvian drug trafficker after female cousins aged 20 and girl, 15, are hacked to death on livestream video

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Cousins Brenda del Castillo, [left], 20, and Morena Verri, 20, [right], were kidnapped after being lured into a van with the promise of a party were lured to a party in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Friday. Their torture and murder was broadcast live on a social media group. del Castillo was stabbed to death before her abdomen was cut open

Two young cousins and a 15 year-old girl were tortured and killed in a video livestreamed online. 
Morena Verri and Brenda Loreley del Castillo, both 20, and Lara Morena Gutiérrez, 15, disappeared on Friday after they were lured into a van with the promise of a party, in Buenos Aires on Friday, Sept. 19.
Investigators said the women were killed that Friday following a dispute with a drug gang.
The women were lured to the house in Florencio Varela, about 16 miles south of the Argentine capital, believing they were to attend a party, but once there were confronted and accused of stealing drugs.
Police tracking the missing women through their cellphones, found their dismembered remains were found five days later on Sept. in a well dug in the bottom of the house in Florencio Varela a suburb, about 16 miles from Buenos Aires
Two buried bodies were found in the courtyard. Later the third was found.
Officers believe the women were taken to the house and accused of stealing drugs before they were tortured and executed on camera as a warning.  

The youngest of the kidnapped women, Lara Gutiérrez, [photo], 15, had the five fingers on her left hand and one ear cut off before she was killed. Dismembered remains of the three women were buried at a home in a suburb of the capital

The gruesome torture and murder was broadcast live on a social media group to about 45 people, said officials, who have described the case as a ‘narco-femicide’. 
The footage of their killing reportedly, includes the voice of what appears to be a gang member saying, “This is what happens to anyone who steals drugs from me.”
Gutierrez had the five fingers on her left hand and one ear cut off before she was killed. Del Castillo was stabbed to death before her abdomen was cut open. 
During the broadcast, someone was heard saying: ‘This is what happens to anyone who steals drugs from me.’
Six people have been arrested in connection with the killings,one of them another Peruvian national Lázaro Víctor Sotacuro, who was captured inside Bolivia’s border with Argentina.
Police are still searching for six other suspects. 
The murders have drawn outrage in Argentina, where activists organized a massive protest to highlight violence against women in the South American nation. 

Authorities said the gruesome execution was ordered by 20-year-old Peruvian drug trafficker Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano, [photo], aka ‘Pequeño J’. Discovering he is attempting to flee Argentina, they issued an international warrant for his arrest and released his image

One of the murder suspects, Lázaro Víctor Sotacuro, [photo], was captured by Argentine security forces working with their Bolivian counterparts, who located him at a hotel just inside Bolivia’s border area with Argentina

Officials believe the victims were targeted by a 20-year-old Peruvian drug trafficker known as ‘Pequeño J,’ [“Little J”], real name Tony Janzen Valverde Victoriano.  He hired the hitmen to execute the women in retaliation for the alleged theft of money and drugs.
The suspect who is described as a ‘Blood Thirsty individual’ organized the streaming to amplify the impact and send an explicit message to rivals as well as members of his gang, authorities said.  
While various reports said the murders were livestreamed on Instagram, Meta has denied this, telling People they have not found evidence it happened on their platform.
‘Our team continues to cooperate with law enforcement as they investigate this horrific crime,’ Meta said.

The three young women taken off the street, tortured and killed on a livestream after they were lured into a van near Buenos Aires, on Friday Sept. 26

The Buenos Aires Ministry of Women and Diversity said the killings were among ‘the most extreme expressions of gender-based violence’.
A spokesman said: ‘In the context of drug-related crime, they are a brutal and ferocious expression of dehumanization, cruelty, and neglect.
‘We accompany their families and loved ones in their grief.’

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