One of the murderers of José Luis Cabezas was detained for a few hours: he had a warrant for his arrest that had expired

José Luis Auge, one of the four "horneros" convicted of murdering photographer José Luis Cabezas in Pinamar on January 25, 1997, was arrested this Monday while walking through the streets of the Buenos Aires town of Berisso.

Police sources told the Télam agency that an old arrest warrant issued by a Dolores court linked to a breach of the conditions of his probation weighed on him. , However, hours later he was released: the order had timed out.

After learning of the arrest, the family of the photographer from the magazine Noticias, through his sister Gladys Cabezas, issued a statement to which Télam had access in which he considered "memory essential so that the figure of José Luis Cabezas is always the symbol of the role of journalism".

In turn, the text indicates that this type of situation marks new "milestones of impunity for the soul and heart" and "a desire to obtain justice."

Police sources assured that Auge had been detained by personnel from the Patrol Command during a vehicle control that was carried out on streets 66 and 123, in Berisso.

According to the investigators, the member of the so-called "Los Hornos Gang" who murdered Cabezas (so called because they were from the town of Los Hornos in La Plata), had an arrest warrant issued by the Dolores Correctional Court, for what was lodged in a cell of the 4a police station. from Villa Progreso, in that town in La Plata.

The sources said that the arrest warrant is from 2006 for an alleged breach of the conditions of his probation. However, hours later it was confirmed that the request had expired and he was released.

Auge, like his accomplices Sergio González, Horacio Braga and Héctor Retana (now deceased) were sentenced in February 2000 by the Chamber of Dolores to life imprisonment.

In addition, police officer Gustavo Prellezo, officer Aníbal Luna, officer Sergio Camaratta, and the then custodian of businessman Alfredo Yabrán, Gregorio Ríos, received life imprisonment.

In November 2003, the Buenos Aires Court of Cassation significantly reduced the sentences imposed and, thanks to the "2x1" law then in force, "Los Horneros", with the exception of Retana who died in jail, were benefited from prison terms. .

In 2007, both Braga and Auge had violated the conditions of house arrest and by order of the Justice they had returned to prison, but some time later they were released again.

"On the 26th anniversary of the brutal and treacherous murder of José Luis, the family considers memory essential so that his figure will always be the symbol of the role of journalism," they said in the statement.

And they added: "It does not matter why this murderer was arrested, who protected him so that he is a fugitive from Justice and who benefited him so that he is in undeserved freedom like so many others in Argentina."

In addition, they maintain that  "Good Argentines, who do not forget either, have found in the conviction of this aberrational act a sign of hope, in which the fight for truth and justice must set limits to power."

"As expressed by his co-workers: 'the unanimous and persistent repudiation of the crime from all sectors of Argentine civil life, the relentless demand for justice until those responsible are found, and then the extended demand for the sentences to be effectively served they reveal an awareness and a social consensus that 25 years later are a differential asset that should not be minimized'".

After learning of the arrest, the family of the photographer from the magazine Noticias, through his sister Gladys Cabezas, issued a statement to which Télam had access in which he considered "memory essential so that the figure of José Luis Cabezas is always the symbol of the role of journalism".