Video: A pastry chef threatens another employee with a knife in the kitchen of a bar in Montserrat

Restaurant kitchen Porteno became a site of tension last Thursday, when Two employees starred in a gastronomic establishment face to face which ended with one of them threatening the other Keeping the knife at neck level.

The violent sequence was recorded by security cameras Enitma, The business that was the site of the incident. It is a delicious cafe specializing in pastries that is located in the neighborhood at 500 Belgrano Avenue. Montserrat.

Everything happened at 9:40 pm, during the time it is open to the public. The place where the fight took place Area where refrigerators are located The restaurant’s storeroom is where they store ingredients and raw materials for cooking. The victim of the attack was doing the same task when her attacker entered the room.

According to the complaint filed by the victim of the attack Neighbourhood Police Station 1D of the city police, was brother of the owner of the premises, who aggressively obstructed them during their working hours. Acted as an aggressor Baker,

According to the complainant, the petty argument – ​​which ended with the rest of her co-workers separating them – may have arisen from a The attacker’s dissatisfaction with his performance,

In the images recorded by security cameras you can see how the pastry chef enters the kitchen, goes straight in search of the victim with a knife in his hand, and after saying a few words, swiftly kills the victim. threatens him with a gun,

The moment lasts a few seconds: it begins with the pastry chef walking towards her, you can see him saying something in his ear, while the employee appears concentrated with a basket of food. It is also seen how the attacker follows his steps very closely, showing him a knife,

The sequence ends when the complainant reaches the freezer he was going to and, when he goes to put things in their place, The pastry chef forced him into a corner and placed a knife to his neck..That’s when everyone present reacts and appears desperate to try and defuse the situation.

It is no small matter that, behind the man with the knife, a woman enters, who is apparently I knew the intentions of this person towards his partner. In this sense, in communication with TN, The owner of the premises stated that the complainant of the incident He had several complaints of harassment by other employees there.Especially women.

“There was abuse and it happened until someone reacted”Maximiliano, the restaurant owner and brother of the attacker, said. Regarding the violence allegedly generated by the victim, he said: “It was between gestures and words. He was moving around a little bit. And well, someone exploded. He saw it happen and it happened, and it exploded like that. What he did personally I do not take as a defense of his comrades, but he did it in his own reaction. “

According to sources close to the case, the Criminal, Misdemeanor and Misdemeanor Prosecutor’s Office No. 17 intervened in the incident, in charge of Tomas Ignacio Vacarezza,

Although the incident did not escalate, the conflict and aggression that resulted from the incident in a work environment became known more than two months after the incident. The Crime of German MedinaThe 33-year-old man was murdered by his colleague on March 20 Abel GuzmanWho escaped from the premises window after shooting him that night.

The suspect was captured by campus security cameras and remained a fugitive from investigators until last Wednesday City police took over the division They found him in a house in a Buenos Aires district dark On Miserere Street, between Rome and Leonardo da Vinci, where he was hiding. There they arrested him. He was processed in the last hours.