A 20-year-old man who was on vacation in Mar del Plata chased and ran over a 14-year-old teenager after thinking he had stolen his motorcycle, but He was wrong: it was not his and he was arrested for “attempted murder.”
According to what was indicated in the investigation, the young man was resting on one of the beaches in the Camet area when he saw a person taking his motorcycle. He first thought about notifying the police, but minutes later He received information indicating that it was located behind Parque Camet and he decided to go look for it.
He got into a Peugeot 207, passed the teenager on a Gilera Smash motorcycle, thought it was the same that they had robbed him and began to chase him. After a brief chase, caught up at the intersection of Frenguelli and Los Talas streets and ran him over.
In moments a group of about 30 people who observed the scene, acquaintances of the boy who was run over, surrounded the tourist so that he could not escape and attacked him with blows, until a call to 911 and the arrival of a patrol car and infantry personnel managed to control the situation.
Meanwhile, the tourist was able to escape, but he did not get far. The police searched for him again when they discovered that The motorcycle that had crashed was not the one that had been stolen but that he had chosen the wrong vehicle.
According to local media, The injured young man was transferred to the Interzonal Acute Hospital, where he was hospitalized without risk of life but with multiple traumas throughout the body.
For his part, the driver, whose identity was not revealed, maintained his position before the Court and said that “He was sure that the motorcycle he chased was his and that they had changed it.”
However, prosecutor Fernando Berlingeri charged him with “attempted homicide,” arguing that He used his car as a weapon by deliberately hitting the motorcyclist.