Schoklender case
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The Schoklender case was a parricide that occurred at dawn on May 30, 1981, when Sergio Schoklender and Pablo Schoklender murdered their parents in their apartment in Belgrano in Buenos Aires.
The newly graduated industrial engineer Mauricio Schoklender and Cristina Romano Silva met on January 11, 1955 in a downtown café. He belonged to a middle-class Jewish family while she was Catholic, which did not please the boy's mother. Despite this animosity, they married that year on July 7 and immediately moved to the city of Tandil in southern Buenos Aires province, where Mauricio had found a job in the Tandil Metallurgical Company SA.
Their three children were born in this city: Sergio, Pablo and Ana Valeria Schoklender. The couple lived humbly at first, but gradually became successful. Cristina organized literary meetings in their home. When the crime came to light, some neighbors recalled that the Schoklender house was dirty and messy, and that Cristina drank excessively and used to leave her children home alone. By 1968, Mauricio started working at Pittsburgh & Cardiff Coal Co. SA, so the family moved to Buenos Aires to the fourth floor of the building located in Tres de Febrero 1480, in Belgrano, which subsequently hosted the drama.[1][2][3]