ALBAWABA - Shocking news recently resurfaced that a man from Argentina set four lesbian women on fire due to LGBTQ rights early May 6, 2024, and according to CNN, only one of them survived the incident.
The incident in question which took place at the Barraces of Buenos Aires had Pamela Fabiana Cobas, Mercedes Roxana Figueroa, Andrea Amarante, and Sofía Castro Riglo sharing a room where a man breached it and threw an incendiary setting the four women ablaze.
Man in Argentina sets 4 lesbian women on fire over LGBTQ rights
According to CNN, Cobas died on the spot, followed by her partner Figueroa who died days later due to organ failure and Amarante died in the hospital on May 12, 2024, leaving her partner Riglo as the sole survivor of the shocking incident.
Riglo, Amarante's partner recovered after spending weeks in the hospital and said that she saved her life by shielding her from the fire, according to Riglo's attorney.
Local police later arrested a 62-year-old man who resided in the building but is not referring to the incident in question as a hate crime. On the other hand, local LGBTQ rights advocates condemned the action carried out by the old man and deemed it a hate crime.
Argentinian LGBTQ groups blame new far-right leader Javier Milei
President of Argentina Javier Milei speaks during CPAC Conference 2024 at Gaylord National Resort Convention Center in Washington DC. (Shutterstock)
"Things changed with the new government of Javier Milei."
After confirming that they are going to do a march in remembrance of the four women this weekend, one chief among the LGBTQ communities said that Argentina's new far-right leader Javier Milei is to blame due to rising hostility and violence towards LGBTQ individuals.
They added,
"Since the beginning of the new government, there are national government officials expressing themselves in a discriminatory manner and those hate speeches before our communities from places with so much power, of course, what they do is generate – actually legitimize – and endorse these discriminatory positions that are then expressed with violence and discrimination in everyday life."
