Armed highwaymen on bikes are targeting motorcyclists in Buenos Aires

On Saturday, Andres Blaquier, one of the richest men in Argentina and owner of the Ledesma Group was riding his 1200cc BMW motorcycle down the Panamericana motorway from Pilar to the capital when he was intercepted by murdering thugs riding a probably stolen Benelli bike. One was a girl of 18 years and the other, an 18 year old career criminal.

Blaquier tried to accelerate away but they shot him five times, downing his motorcycle. One of the murderers got onto the fallen bike, leaving the dying man on the ground and rode away a short distance before losing control of the powerful BMW and crashing it.

Both managed to escape on the Benelli but the girl was later captured by police.

The thug behind this despicable crime, Luciano Jesus Gonzalez, a known criminal is still on the run.

El empresario Andrés Blaquier fue asesinado por motochorros que intentaron robarle la moto en la Panamericana

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This type of crime is now becoming all too frequent and I have recently spoken to several motorcyclist victims held up at gunpoint on the motorway, with some managing to escape simply because their machines were much faster.

Unfortunately, even though Mr Blaquier's motorcycle was clearly very fast, they shot him anyway, five times and ended up with nothing but a dead man who didn't deserve to die in such barbaric fashion.

I'm horrified.

The police have now caught the murdering scum bastard. I hope he has a fatal accident in police custody.

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Quote from Rice

This is horrifying. Your thread title implies that this is not an isolated incident, but perhaps a growing problem? Is it known whether the murderers were targeting Blaquier specifically? Or were they just after an expensive bike and killed to get it? Or…?

It's definitely not isolated.

Only last week I bumped into a man limping past a cafeteria who had been shot in the leg whilst riding his bike on the Panamericana just south of Zarate.

Another biker with an extremely powerful bike managed to outride two murder bikes that chased him, at times reaching 240Kmh. That's how he managed to escape.

The murderer that the police just captured has 18 previous convictions yet he was free as a bird on the streets. Probably because he's only just 18.

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Is there any special time of day (or night) that the delinquents start their violent activities?

I don't think so, however Mr Blaquier was shot at around 1930 when it was getting dark.

One less.

A couple of pics, more later

Quote from Rice

An impressive turnout. Is there hope that this display of unity will have an effect on the growing crime problem?

Only time will tell and we have to keep up the pressure, so further protests are planned.

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The motorcyclists consulted by Clarín speak of gangs that sell high-end motorbikes stolen in the conurbation abroad. The information comes from a report they have been working on, which they will publish in the next few days. "They are businessmen who offer the thieves 500 dollars. They buy the motorbikes from them and take them to Paraguay. There is a lot of logistics involved in this type of crime," they say.

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10,000 motorcycles outside UBA last Saturday. (4K)