16/06/2026 12:52 - Actualidad
Ilustración conceptual que represente una casa con las ventanas selladas con cinta adhesiva y una sensación de tragedia, con tonos oscuros y una luz tenue.
Prosecutor Franco Tassini, leading the investigation into this harrowing case in General Lagos, Santa Fe Province, confirmed on Monday, June 16, 2026, that the 46-year-old father carefully planned the deaths of his two young children—ages 4 and 10—before ending his own life. The man, who had an active restraining order against his former partner (the children's mother), left a handwritten note explicitly stating his intention to kill the children and then commit suicide.
The devastating discovery occurred around midday on Sunday, June 15, 2026, when the children's mother, 44, alerted authorities after being unable to contact her ex-partner. Police officers, accompanied by the man's brother, entered the residence located on España Street at the 800 block (in the town of General Lagos, near the city of Rosario) through the back of the property. In a bedroom with windows sealed with adhesive tape and four lit charcoal braziers, they found the lifeless bodies of the father and his two children. The probable cause of death is carbon monoxide poisoning. The bodies were transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) in Rosario for autopsy.
In a press conference, Prosecutor Tassini revealed a crucial antecedent: the children's mother had filed a complaint in February 2026 against the man for economic, psychological, and symbolic violence, for incidents occurring since 2025. As a result of this complaint, a restraining order was imposed prohibiting the father from approaching the mother. However, the prosecutor clarified that this restriction did not extend to the children, who continued seeing their father on weekends under a court-ordered visitation arrangement.
The investigation now seeks to determine whether there was any violation of the restraining order or if third parties participated in the act, although there is currently no evidence that the restriction was disobeyed.
This case tragically echoes a similar episode that occurred four years ago in Empalme Graneros, Rosario, where a man killed his two children, ages 9 and 12, before taking his own life.
General Lagos is a small town in Santa Fe Province, Argentina, located approximately 15 kilometers from Rosario—the country's third-largest city and an important industrial and cultural center. The area has unfortunately witnessed similar tragic cases of domestic violence in recent years, highlighting an ongoing social crisis in Argentina regarding gender-based violence and filicide.
Alfredo S. Quiroga
