Throughout the crime, their two sons, aged five and seven, were playing PlayStation in the apartment’s living room.
It has caused a shock a femicide in Argentina. An Argentinian soccer player was found strangled by her ex-husband in her apartment. The perpetrator committed suicide.
THE Florencia Guinazu, The 30-year-old, who played for club Argentino de Mendoza, was found beaten and strangled in the room she shared with her ex-partner Ignacio Agustín Notto.
After the incident, a note in the window warned neighbors of the horror they would find inside the house. He wrote: “Call 911. The kids are alone.” Several Argentine media outlets, including O Globo newspaper, are reporting that Notto wrote the note after killing Guinazu, and shortly afterwards killed himself.
Throughout the crime, their two sons, aged five and seven, they were playing PlayStation in the living room of the apartment.
Reports claim the eldest son knocked on the door to the master bedroom where the murder took place, but it was locked from the inside and no one answered. He later wandered around the block of flats before a neighbor finally read the note and called the police, who arrived shortly afterwards.
After breaking down the master bedroom door, they found Guinazu lying on the floor in a pool of blood. The perpetrator, who had committed suicide, was also in the room.
An autopsy determined, according to the statement released Monday, that the victim died of asphyxiation due to strangulation.
The incident comes just five months after Notto was reported by Guinazu, who asked him to leave their home in November 2023. Although the woman told police she was not harmed by her ex-husband, later restrictive measures were issued.
The Homicide and Institutional Violence Prosecutor’s Unit in Mendoza sent out a press release Monday, which read: “No curfew violations have been issued since that date until Saturday.”
Guinazu’s club posted a message on Instagram about the murder. They said:Florencia Guinazu was a player in Club Atlético Argentino’s First Division Women’s Soccer 11. We are very sorry for her murder, which was femicide. Yesterday her husband Ignacio Notto beat her to death and then committed suicide. Even though they were legally married, they were divorced, she had already denounced him repeatedly, he was arrested and released in November 2023.”
“Many details of the case are not yet known, we are waiting for more information. What we do know is that women’s football is in mourning, yet another woman murdered at the hands of her ex-partner. STOP KILLING US”.
Besides being a soccer player, Guinazu also had experience in rugby and nearly 25,000 followers on social media.
Check out this Instagram post.
Source :Skai
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