3 Nov 2024 Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires (Argentina) Murdered Rosario Sansone [photo: elexpresodesalta.com.ar]
Rosario's body was found in her bedroom after a fire in her home. Her home had been ransacked and some of her belongings were missing,
Her death was classified as a homicide and a minor was arrested.
On November 3, at around 8:30 in the morning, the Police reported a fire at 1400 República Siria. Upon entering and putting out the fire, the Civil Defense and Firefighters teams found the body of Rosario Sansone.
The 47-year-old trans woman was found dead in a prone position on a bed. There was a mess around her and her cell phone and documentation were found to be missing.
The Second Police Station and the DDI carried out the investigation and analysed digital transaction records and security camera recordings. This led to a raid that was carried out last night at a house on Francia 800.
There, a minor was arrested. Credit cards, debit cards and other digital items belonging to the victim were seized.
The case was reclassified as homicide, and the minor was placed at the disposal of the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office on duty.
Rosario was a well-known Salta LGBTQIA+ activist in the city and her murder was greeted with shock by many.
Rosario Sansone, a trans activist and leader in Bahía Blanca, spoke with Total Normalidad about her participation in the first Parliament of Diversities in the Provincial Chamber of Deputies, organized by the Frente de Todos bloc. The event took place within the framework of the 11th anniversary of the passing of the Gender Identity Law and the International Day of the Fight against Discrimination due to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. "We are living in a beautiful time, full of rights."
Sansone appeared, together with the Mar del Plata representative Yohana Maidana, to speak about the importance of trans resistance and demand the sanction of the transvestite-trans reparation law. The project establishes a reparatory pension for victims of institutional violence due to reasons of gender identity. “Historical reparation would be like compensation, that the State recognizes what it did to us, leaving us to our fate. Trans resistance has advanced so much that it is unimaginable that we continue to be denied rights.”