Diego Alvaredo. On “No Te Duermas,” Diego Alvaredo, the father of Lautaro Alvaredo, who was murdered at a nightclub in Gregorio de Laferrere, was interviewed.
By Ariel Fassio arielfassio@gmail.com
Diego began by recounting the events of that day: “Lautaro was leaving the nightclub without knowing what had happened because he was working on a small project with me, involving music—he wanted to be a DJ. So he stayed at the nightclub almost the entire time, glued to the DJ, watching and curiously observing how the kids were working. I say ‘healthy’ kids because, unfortunately, my son was too healthy; he had never fought in his life and didn’t know how to argue. I raised him, perhaps poorly for this world, with a culture of apologizing, saying ‘sorry,’ and ‘please.’ When he saw his friends leaving, he went out the back, only to find that his friends were fighting outside. When he walked out, lost, from the back, they came and beat him to death.”
“They landed a punch that, by chance, made him fall to the ground. They came and kicked him in the head until he started convulsing, and then the police, who didn’t want to take responsibility. There are many killers of Lautaro, that’s the reality. Although there were three material perpetrators, it seems society today is equipped to be part of the killers.”
The Situation That Sparked the Fight
Regarding the events that led to the crime, Lautaro’s father explained: “The friends, so to speak, said that some kids came, pushed one of Lautaro’s friends, and threw his glasses. One of the friends said, ‘You broke my glasses,’ and the other replied, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll pay you back. Do you have Mercado Pago?’ He said. Well, between one thing and another, he said, ‘I can’t get a signal; let’s go outside, and I’ll pay you through Mercado Pago.’ That’s how they went out with the excuse of paying for the glasses of one of Lautaro’s friends.”
“At that moment Lautaro went out with his friends, and that’s when they started fighting. Lautaro, the second time they kicked him in the face, bent down because he saw his friend’s phone on the ground. It was supposedly the friend’s phone because later it was stolen from him when they kicked him. The third person who came on a motorcycle, who had nothing to do with the situation, was someone who knew one of the killers. He saw the fight, turned around on his bike, came over, kicked my son in the head, and stole his phone,” he recounted.
“From the blows to his head, he lost consciousness and started convulsing on the ground. The friends tried to revive him because no one knew what to do; the friends ran in different directions, fighting. He was left lying on the ground convulsing. When they came back and saw Lautaro, they tried to lift him, but he wasn’t responding, obviously. He had a fractured skull.”
“They asked the police to take him. The police didn’t want to take responsibility. They called an ambulance, which didn’t come. So the police, seeing the situation, made a kind of mea culpa. Well, if you take responsibility for him, we’ll take him to a small clinic. So the kids, of course, said, ‘Yes, we’ll take responsibility,’” Diego explained.
He added: “It’s all nonsense. Imagine, the police in Laferrere were all replaced a week later. That gives you an idea of the things we don’t know as citizens about what happens within the police force as well.”
The Police and UTA in the Spotlight
“The police didn’t want to take responsibility or felt the situation was out of their control. Today no one wants to get involved; no one wants to take responsibility. We’re all afraid, including me.”
“That day, they took him to a maternal and child hospital when the Kirchner Hospital was just 10 blocks away. There’s also another significant responsibility with UTA, the transport workers’ social security, where I’m affiliated, which even asked for the color of his underwear to send an ambulance because they needed a high-risk ambulance to transfer him to the clinic that Lautaro needed at that moment.
He needed a CT scan; we needed to know why he wasn’t waking up,” Lautaro’s father recounted.
“Moreover, something that upset me greatly at the maternal and child hospital was that they treated him as if he was drugged without knowing that his head was fractured. If you work in a health center, the first thing you need to do is verify. If I’m going to treat someone as drunk, I need to know if they have alcohol in their blood. They treated my son as if he was drugged. He was the most responsible of them all.”
At the end of the interview, Diego shared: “One of the friends had gone as a baker and said to me, ‘Do you have a day off?’ He said he was going to visit Lauti, but I didn’t want him to go to Laferrere. We know, most people know what Laferrere is like, and I told him, ‘Well, you’re going to send me messages every hour.’ And he was doing that. By chance, I went to buy a new phone, which I have here, and that day I couldn’t turn it off. Lautaro lived in González Catán, 5 kilometers from Laferrere. I’m 50 years old, and back when I used to go to Laferrere, it was tough. And today it’s much worse. Imagine, it even took my son’s life,” he concluded with nostalgia.
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