The intense search for Martin, Cristian Lanatta and Victor Schillaci, escaped thirteen days of a maximum security prison in the province of Buenos Aires ago, culminated today with the recapture of three prisoners serving a sentence of life in prison for a triple murder .
The overturning of a stolen truck, which was traveling Lanatta Martin, ended an almost cinematic leak that began 13 days ago in General Alvear Buenos Aires prison.
The three prisoners serving a sentence of life in prison for a triple murder linked to a case of trafficking in ephedrine and escaped on 27 December in unusual circumstances: they went through the front door using a wooden gun while being guarded by a policeman for his religion, he could not use weapons.
Injured in the accident, Lanatta Martin was the first to be captured this morning in the province of Santa Fe Argentina (center), in a rural area called Cayastá, while Cristian Lanatta and Victor Schillaci, local media reported that another truck had been stolen, they were arrested a few hours.
According to the vice president of community Cayastá to the official news agency Telam said the refugees were recognized and reported by a local resident, who had come to ask for water.
For his part, the president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, congratulated today via Twitter to the security forces who managed to give the three escapees.
"I congratulate the entire team and the security forces for the capture of the fugitives. Working together it was key," published the president.
According to official sources they confirmed to Efe, the Security Minister Patricia Bullrich travel to Santa Fe, accompanied by officials of the province of Buenos Aires.
The intense search led to the security forces of Buenos Aires, together with other local and federal police and the gendarmerie, a rally by different locations, from the interior of the province to the populous urban belt.
Over 13 days, the refugees were seen by two security checkpoints stationed on the roads: on those occasions, members of the Buenos Aires Police and Gendarmerie were injured after being shot from the three convicts.
The search also included a failed operating in the locality of Ranchos, dozens of raids and arrests of several alleged accomplices in the escape.
This week, the investigation moved to the province of Santa Fe, north of Buenos Aires, where some 500 officers carried out a revision walk from various fields where they could have been the Lanatta and Schillaci brothers.
Finally, the fugitives were arrested today by local police in a rural area of just 4,000 inhabitants. A local resident even told the press that he had borrowed three horses for the arrest operation.
Martin Lanatta had sparked controversy last year, days before the primary elections in Argentina, accusing a former TV show Kirchner Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez, had devised the triple murder.
Fernandez, who was running for governor of Buenos Aires, said that the accusation was a strategy to harm rivals and benefit the candidate Macri, María Eugenia Vidal, who eventually won the election.
After the flight, they arrived macrismo cross between charges, which linked the leak with Anibal Fernandez and Kirchner, who said the escape was a "return favors" for the campaign against the former official.
"Now, who guard him accordingly we want to know the terms of the arrangement of the leakage with urgency," Fernandez published today in his Twitter account after learning reuptake Martin Lanatta.
Meanwhile, Vidal governor and the Minister of Security of the province were also traveling with Bullrich toward Santa Fe, after news of the recapture.