Monday was turning into Tuesday when the Miter neighborhoodin Saavedra, a few blocks from the Dot Baires Shopping, became a branch of hell: shots from one side, shots from the other, and urgent calls to the Police from undaunted neighbors who saw how since two people were released from prison, the air had once again become unbreathable. The morning ended with two gunshot wounds and a judicial investigation that puts the relationship between the drug traffickers and the barrabravas back into focus: on one side of the confrontation are the paravalanchas of Platense and from the other, the historic Gómez clanwho have been disputing for a decade the territory whose fight seems to have entered the stage of total war.

Although both groups were at odds over all the businesses that anyone can imagine, the situation had begun to calm down after the two heavyweights on both sides were imprisoned: on the one hand Alejandro Acostaalias old tomhead of the brava bar of the Squid who was arrested in December 2018 and sentenced to a sentence of 6 years in prison for the alleged leader of a criminal organization that was dedicated to the assault of premises selling technology items and also perfumeries. Of the Gómez clan, whose members have criminal records dating back to 2003, their boss had also fallen by then for selling drugs. But both were recovering their freedom. First Gomez and does nothing, the Viejo Tom. According to the judicial investigation, the latter watched from prison as his group lost influence in the neighborhood at the hands of the other clan while he was behind bars. And he swore when he returned to turn that issue around. And now the entire neighborhood lives on edge as the first shootout between men from the bar and members of the Gómez family left two wounded by gunshots.

He Viejo Tom not really an old man. He is 32 years old and is the head of a group that got fully involved in the world of crime a decade ago. Emulating their predecessors in the bar and in the neighborhood, they began making robberies and piranha robberies in the area of ​​Cabildo and Villa Urquiza, near Triunvirato and Monroe. Little by little they were perfected.

At that time, the neighborhood was dominated by two groups: one that referenced itself in Rich uncle y Julito at the head, who led the Platense bar until 2008, and those who succeeded them in the rostrum with Andrew the Share Torres And his brother Fatiguein front, who had been founding members of the NGO barra Argentine United Fanswhere they finished rubbing shoulders with the political leaders of the Government and the dissident PJ.

of them the Viejo Tom and his henchmen learned tactics and strategy. And little by little they began to carve harder in the neighborhood. First, moving to a more important criminal face, with robberies of shops in the area such as perfumeries and pharmacies. Later, when they led a revolt against the shopping Dot Baires after a flood in 2013, as the complex emptied water into the area. And in the end, getting deeper and deeper into the club. By 2016 they were the kings of the Miter neighborhood.

Acosta was the leader, but below him were Kevin Torreswho was seen with the latest model 4×4 trucks and also ended up in prison; Nicholas Gonzalez, another who found his bones in jail; Brandon Lorenzothe spiciest of the Lorenzo brothers, and Joel Fat Sacco, who inherited the leadership of the paravalanches when his predecessors fell. It was then, when the band ended up dismantled and the Gómez, associating with two other clans, the families Moreno y Tapia, began to expand in the territory. He Viejo Tom, installed in the Devoto prison, brooded over his anger. He thought that the release of prisoners due to the pandemic would favor him and in fact he was one of those who infobae He recognized in the April 2020 riot that he had society on edge. But he did not achieve his mission and always with the Platense shirt on, he waited for his moment, which, according to investigations, the Justice believes could have come now.

According to the case, which is in the hands of the Flagrancia Norte division of the City Public Prosecutor’s Office, one of the wounded is a member of the Gómez family while the other person who suffered a bullet impact is a police officer who had gone to stop the confrontation and both are hospitalized. The fact was labeled as serious aggravated injuries, attack and resistance to authority and abuse of weapons, and has the entire leadership of the Platense bar in its sights, because the prosecutor wants to determine responsibilities before it is too late, knowing the history of a group that, taking refuge in its presumed passion for a soccer team, does and undoes at will in a key area of ​​the city of Buenos Aires.

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