The Minister Patricia bullrich will present, today at 1:30 p.m. the new general regulations for the use of firearms by the Federal Security Forces at the Ministry’s headquarters.
The presentation takes place in the context of the violent events that have occurred in recent days in Rosario.
The rules, which was suspended by former minister Sabina Frederic in 2019, re-enabled security forces use lethal weapons in the face of a crime without the need to stop or mediate prior aggression in February 2024
What the Regulations say for the use of firearms
The Regulation establishes in its article 3 that “Given the necessary use of weapons, the officials of the FEDERAL SECURITY FORCES must identify themselves as such, giving a loud warning to cease the illicit activity.”. However, it immediately states that “this requirement is excepted in those situations where said action may pose a risk of death or serious injury to other people, when their own lives or physical integrity would be unduly endangered, or when this is evidently inadequate or useless, given the circumstances of the case.
The protocol enables the use of lethal weapons “when other non-violent means are ineffective”, when it is in “self-defense or defense of other people, in case of imminent danger of death or serious injury” or to “prevent the commission of a crime.” particularly serious, presenting imminent danger to the life or physical integrity of people.
Inter alia, paragraph c.3 of Article 4° protects police actions by enabling effective response with firearms even in the event that the counterparty “makes movements that indicate the imminent use of a weapon.”
It should be noted that the regulation It will not be valid in the case of public demonstrations or protests.since the regulations that establish the use of non-lethal weapons in those cases will continue to be in force.
What is the Chocobar doctrine
A while ago the Minister of Security and the police officer met Luis Chocobar, convicted for the crime of the criminal Juan Pablo Kukok in La Boca in 2017.
The main focus of the meeting was on the need to incorporate modifications to article 34 of the Penal Code, with the aim of contemplating “the difference in forces and the situation of legitimate defense when the aggressor is on the run.”
The Chocobar figure It became public when on the morning of December 8, 2017 in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Boca, two young people injured the American tourist Frank Wolek, from whom they were trying to steal a camera: upon noticing the situationthe cash intervened and murdered one of the thieves, called paul To coc.
In the trial carried out for the incident, the Oral Juvenile Court number two sentenced him to two years in prison for the homicide “in excess of the line of duty”although it authorized him to continue being a member of the Police although without performing “operational functions” or using firearms for five years.
Since the case became known, Bullrich openly supported Chocobar on repeated occasions.
With information from Ámbito