The companions of the affiliation during which the three girls burned alive within the fireplace of a dilapidated lodge room in Buenos Aires belonged haven’t any doubts: “They killed them as a result of they have been lesbians.” The drama passed off within the Barracas neighborhood of the Argentine capital, and if at first it was thought of a fireplace attributable to a defective range, because the hours handed an actual hate and gender crime took form.
In reality, the fireplace was attributable to a person who threw a Molotov cocktail into room 14 of a household lodge the place the 4 girls who shaped two {couples} lived. One of them survived. “They set fireplace to them as a result of they have been lesbians, as a result of they have been poor and since they have been militants”, denounced the comrades of the Lesbian Association of Barracas throughout a protest in entrance of the lodge. The most important suspect is a neighbor who shared the room with the 4 girls They apparently had frequent arguments. The man, Justo Fernando Barrientos, 67, tried to take his personal life earlier than being arrested.