Santa Fe justice has issued a total ban on the dissemination of the video showing the murder of Jeremías Monzón, a 15-year-old stabbed 23 times by three minors in late December in Santo Tomé. Judge Silvina Inés Díaz granted the family's lawyers' request, ordering platforms and media to remove any filmic or audio records of the attack. The material began circulating on social media and messaging apps in mid-January.
Judge Silvina Inés Díaz of the First Instance Civil and Commercial Court in Santa Fe issued the ruling during the judicial recess, prohibiting the dissemination of the video of Jeremías Monzón's crime. The family's lawyers, Diego Martini and Bruno Rugna, requested the precautionary measure last week due to the material's circulation since mid-January on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, X, TikTok, and Telegram.
The court order, notified this Tuesday to television channels, digital media, and social networks, requires the removal, blocking, and elimination of any records linked to the attack, with sanctions for non-compliance. The crime took place on December 18, 2024, when Monzón disappeared; his body was found four days later in a shed near the roadway bridge connecting Santa Fe to Santo Tomé, in front of Colón club's stadium. The autopsy showed 20 to 23 stab wounds, with death dated to the disappearance.
Of the three minors involved, two were returned to their families as non-culpable. Milagros A., 16, remains in a Minors' Institute, and her mother was charged as a necessary participant. Jeremías's mother, Romina, described the incident in a C5N interview: “Many times one thinks something bad might happen, but never a level of such malice, so macabre, so perverse.” Jeremías lived with his grandparents under shared custody and did not return home that night, starting the family search.
Justice is investigating who leaked the video, while Minister Bullrich will meet the family this Friday in the Senate. A relative of an accused recently surrendered in connection to the case.
