Three men were charged in Argentina with murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the case of two French tourists who were found shot to death in a nature preserve to the north of the country nearly three months ago.
At least two of the three suspects currently under arrest in connection to the murder of two French tourists in the Argentine northern province of Salta last July, show signs of “psychotic, fabulist” behaviour, police authorities indicated.
The DNA results on tests run on the two French tourists murdered in the Argentine province of Salta indicated that prosecuted suspects Santos Clement Vera, and Gustavo Lasi sexually abused the victims. Likewise, the exam did not test positive on third suspect Daniel Vilte Laxi.
Two men were charged on Tuesday of cover-up in the case that investigates the abuse and killing of the two French tourists in the north-west Argentine province of Salta, the judicial spokesman Marcelo Báez reported.
The police from the Argentine province of Salta arrested on Sunday the eighth suspect in connection to the killings of the two French tourists raped and murdered in Quebrada de San Lorenzo last month.
The Argentine Police investigating the double-murder case of the French tourists in Salta confirmed Wednesday that the gun confiscated last Saturday from the six people arrested in connection with the crime, was the weapon used to kill the young French women, a Salta court spokesperson said.
A court investigation over the “kidnapping, rape and murders,” of the two French women killed in Salta, northern Argentina was opened Friday in Paris, French court sources informed.
A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the double murder case in Salta, where two French tourists were killed in the area of la Quebrada San Lorenzo last Friday, a Salta official informed.