Argentina: man burns lesbian family home after years of harassment

On Wednesday, January 29, Orlando Alcides Lutz Fogar doused the house where a lesbian couple and their daughter lived in Cañuelas with gasoline and set fire to it. Unbeknownst to the attacker, they had left the house after Lutz Fogar pointed a laser at the house.

But Wednesday’s attack on the house was not the first. The women had been suffering the attacks for three years, which were reported on different occasions. In one of these attacks, the violent neighbor had doused the lamp post with gasoline and set it on fire, putting at risk not only this family but also several of the houses around it. The women filed several complaints, but the Justice Department put a restraining order on only one of the family members, which was never enforced.

The couple arrived in Cañuelas in 2022, looking for a quiet place to live. There they learned that a neighbor harassed other people, particularly if those people were women or sexually diverse. In conversation with Agui, one of the women who suffered the attack, said, “the day we saw him for the first time was when he attacked another lesbian couple who lived on the block. We got into an argument because the man went to record the property of these girls and intimidate them and when we went to tell them that the girls were not alone, and that’s when our ordeal began.” …

After the successive attacks, the women realized that they were being targeted by a laser light and decided to leave their house because they felt at risk. Not knowing that they were not there, Lutz Fogar went to set fire to their house. They found out because a neighbor called them to warn them.

Continue reading at: https://www.tiempoar.com.ar/ta_article/un-hombre-prendio-fuego-a-la-casa-de-una-familia-lesbiana/ (Source)

Update: https://listening2lesbians.com/2025/03/27/argentina-man-accused-of-burning-lesbian-family-home-denied-release/

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