Leopoldo Martín Pitito Martínezcurrent leader of the Rosario Central barrabrava After the death of Andrés Pillín Bracamonte, he was arrested at his home in Villa Manuelita. The operation was carried out by the Special Operations Troop at the request of prosecutors Alejandro Ferlazzo, Georgina Pairola and Luis Schiappa Pietra who are investigating the murder of Bracamonte and Daniel Raúl Rana Attardo.
In detail, prosecutors suspect that Pitito was the one who handed over Bracamonte and Attardowho were shot to death on November 9, meters from the Gigante de Arroyito, after the game that pitted the scoundrel against San Lorenzo. Additionally, agents seized a phone and a fanny pack at Martínez’s house.
The arrest of the leader of the Rosario Central barrabrava
The operation of the Special Operations Troop is part of the investigation carried out by Justice for the murder of Pillín Bracamonte and his companion Rana Attardo. Both were murdered on November 9 in the vicinity of the Gigante de Arroyito stadium.
The prosecutors in charge of the case follow the hypothesis that the victims were delivered by Pitito Martínez and seek to clarify their participation in the incident. Two weeks ago, on November 30, The house of the current leader of the Rosario Central gang was riddled with bullets.
In that shooting, the Prefecture and the Investigative Police confirmed three shots fired at the door, one on the sidewalk and one inside the building. For their part, forensic experts had seized five used pods.
One of the hypotheses of Justice is that the double crime was commissioned by the alleged drug gang Los Menores, whose leader Lisandro “Licha” or “Limón” Contreras He was arrested last Saturday in Tigre, while shopping. After this, the Federal Police raided his home, in a country in the closed neighborhood of San Sebastian de Pilarand together with the TOE they broke into 12 properties in Rosario and one in Funes, where they arrested three other alleged members of that organization.
Martínez had been arrested at that same address on July 2, 2020in a money laundering case against Bracamonte. During the investigation, prosecutor Miguel Moreno accused him of having found a .380 caliber weapon with numbering filed inside the property.
The murder of Pillín Bracamonte
Pillín Bracamonte, then leader of the Rosario Central group, and his companion, Attardo, were murdered on Saturday, November 9, after the match between Rosario Central and San Lorenzo, in an ambush in a van near the Gigante stadium in Brook. Witnesses They reported hearing multiple gunshots, which generated panic in the area.
The first testimonies indicated the presence of three hooded attackers that They fled after the attack. The analysis points to several hypothesessuch as a possible internal dispute in the Rosario Central bar or conflicts with criminal groups in the city.
In the audios of the witnesses, it is described how the attackers They approached, fired into the air and then aimed directly at Bracamonte and Attardo. According to a witness, Pitito Martínez, identified as the second in command of the Rosario Central gang, took the truck with Bracamonte, who was seriously injured.
Attardo’s body was left on the street and was taken to the Centenario Hospital in a municipal transit vehicle, while fans assisted him and left traces of blood in the hallways. Other witnesses indicated that the ambush occurred while the truck was stopped in a congestion area, taking advantage of the fact that the public lighting was off. According to reports, the attackers fired at close range, without immediate intervention from the police or an ambulance, which passed without stopping.
Bracamonte was involved in extortion and money laundering caseswhich could have motivated the attack. Investigators consider that this homicide could be related to former allies who, after a breakup, sought to dominate extortion areas in Rosario, or even to reprisals after the murder of Samuel “Samu” Medina, another member of organized crime in the region.
Source: Ambito
