Molina Is Shot Dead Under Police Surveillance is the fatal culmination of the surveillance that follows Molina’s parole. Presented through an official report, the episode converts ordinary movements and ambiguous phone calls into grounds for intervention, then records an attempted arrest interrupted by gunfire. Molina dies before help arrives; the report preserves the event while leaving the identity and motive of the attackers uncertain.

Surveillance After Parole

The report identifies Molina as prisoner 3.018 and notes that he was paroled on the 9th. From then on, CISL watches him in conjunction with TISL’s wiretap unit. The account’s bureaucratic form matters: where a personal perspective might explain his choices, the document instead assembles times, locations, calls, and institutional judgments. Molina appears as a subject to be monitored, and even routine conduct becomes material for interpretation.

The investigators consider whether the feminine names Molina uses when addressing Lalo conceal a code. Their own account weakens that suspicion: they describe the conversations as continually bantering and extremely disordered, while saying only that the possibility will continue to be watched. The report therefore makes uncertainty visible. It records a theory without confirming it, yet the theory remains part of the apparatus shaping how Molina is observed.

Recorded Movements and Suspicions

On Tuesday the 22nd, Molina leaves home at 8:05 in the morning, reaches the boutique shortly before 9, and runs the last two blocks. At lunchtime he goes to a coffee shop on Calle Juncal, between Ayacucho and Rio Bamba, and uses a public phone. He dials three times, hangs up immediately each time, and then speaks for about three minutes. Because a phone is also available at his workplace, the investigators treat his choice to wait in line for the public phone as peculiar. They check phones at his home, the Restaurant Mallorquin, and the Banco de Galicia, but do not identify any of those places as the contact he made.

After work, Molina travels to a location the surveillance team regards as difficult to observe from its four vantage points. He waits and speaks to no one; cars pass, but none stop. He then returns home. The report says he appeared unaware of the continuous surveillance and interprets the location as one selected by people skilled at evading police observation. It further concludes that he must have arranged a meeting, although no one arrived—or, in the report’s reasoning, the expected parties may have noticed the surveillance. The scene establishes no contact as fact; it shows how absence and concealment alike can be folded into the authorities’ suspicions.

On Friday the 25th, Molina again makes a public-phone call after dialing and hanging up three times. He eats alone at a pizzeria on Las Heras, leaving almost all his food untouched, then returns to work. After leaving at 6:40, he takes a bus to Congreso, continues by subway to José Maria Moreno station, and walks to Riglos and Formosa. The report says he waits there for approximately thirty minutes, the period allowed by the Central Bureau before agents are to pick him up for interrogation if no one meets him first.

The Arrest Attempt and Death

Two CISL agents, already in close contact with the patrol unit, move to arrest Molina at the appointed location. He demands to see their credentials. At that moment, shots are fired from a passing automobile. Molina and agent Joaquin Perrone are both hit and fall. The patrol unit arrives minutes later, too late to pursue the car. Perrone survives with thigh wounds and serious contusions from his fall; Molina dies before the unit can administer first aid.

The sequence is starkly different from the report’s earlier accumulation of clues. The calls and journeys had been open to several interpretations; the shooting abruptly turns the surveillance operation into a fatal encounter. The account documents the agents’ intended arrest and the attack’s immediate outcome, but it does not identify who fired from the car. Nor does Molina’s demand to see credentials, recorded at the moment of intervention, resolve what he understood about the agents or the surveillance around him.

Official Inference and Narrative Significance

After Molina’s death, members of the patrol unit offer the impression that extremists chose to eliminate him to prevent a possible confession. The report adds that his recent activities and a bank-account matter suggest he himself feared that something might happen. It then speculates that, if Molina knew he was being watched, he may have expected either to escape with the extremists or to be killed by them if surprised in an incriminating position. These are explicitly presented as opinions and possibilities, not confirmed explanations. The shooters’ identity, Molina’s knowledge, and his intentions remain unresolved.

That distinction between observation and inference defines the episode’s documentary perspective. The report can give exact times, routes, and the outcome of the shooting, yet it cannot settle the motives it attributes to Molina or to his assailants. Its surveillance logic repeatedly turns uncertain signs into a case for suspicion; its final account likewise offers competing conjectures where certainty is unavailable. The result is both a recorded death and an exposure of the limits of the record: Molina’s last movements are carefully catalogued, but the meaning of those movements—and the reason he was killed—remains contested.