They shot a police officer from Buenos Aires who agreed to buy a car and was ambushed in Esteban Echeverría

A official of the Police of the province of Buenos Aires was bullet wound when shooting with criminals who tried to rob him, after having agreed to purchase a car through a social network platform, in the Buenos Aires district of Esteban Echeverría.

The incident occurred yesterday on 5400 Mateo Sánchez Street, in the town of 9 de Abril, in the southern part of the suburbs.

Police spokespersons reported that an officer from the Motorized Prevention Group (GPM), San Martín base, of the Buenos Aires Police—who was off duty—went to the scene. civilian dress aboard his Honda Tornado motorcycle, after having agreed to purchase a car through Facebook’s Marketplace platform.

Once the man was present – according to the agency Telam— A Renault Megane car approached with three armed occupants, who They tried to steal his money that he had with him and the motorcycle.

In this situation, the policeman identified himself as such and an armed confrontation took place with the criminals, who then escaped in the vehicle in which they had arrived.

The officer suffered an injury bullet in the right leg, with an entry and exit hole, so he had to be treated at a nearby hospital, but he was out of danger, the informants said.

Meanwhile, from the agent’s testimony to the police officers from the 3rd police station. of Transradio who participated in the operation, it appears that one of the robbers was also injuredso health centers in the area were surveyed in search of the suspect.

Intervenes in the case prosecutor Verónica Cifarelliin charge of the decentralized Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 2 of Esteban Echeverriawho ordered the presence of experts at the scene of the assault and the seizure of the officer’s service weapon.

In another act of crime recorded this week in the province of Buenos Aires, a man who had removed 15 thousand dollars of a bank branch was assaulted by four criminals that they approached him on two motorcycles and stole a backpack with the money when he returned to his office, in the Buenos Aires district of Ituzaingó.

The robbery occurred yesterday, after 1:30 p.m., before the closing of the banking activity and in front of the Automotive Registry 4 at 700 José María Paz Street in the Buenos Aires town. The assault, at the same time, occurred when the victim was getting out of her Peugeot car: she was surprised by four “motorcycle jets” that, to the pushesthey took away the backpack in which he was carrying the $15,000 that he had just withdrawn from the branch North Castelar from the Itaú bank, the agency specified Telam.

In a video taken by a neighbor’s security cameras, the moment in which the victim parks his Peugeot car in front of the Registry where he works and, as soon as he gets out, was recordedis intercepted by four thieves on two motorcycleswho were wearing helmets and dark jackets.

In a quick maneuver, the two criminals who were accompanying them get off the motorcycles and go towards the victim, who after being stripped of his backpack with money begins to run. to flee the place.

In another video also analyzed by the researchers, you see the motorcycles passing by with the criminals on board and moments later the victim runs away.

Due to the fact, a case was initiated in the Ituzaingó Decentralized Prosecutor’s Office 1, led by Marcelo Tavolaro, who asked the staff of the 1st police station. from the area to collect images from security cameras and other required expertise to be able to identify the criminals.