The Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, referred to the total number of detainees due to the incidents that occurred this Friday, February 2, in Plaza Congreso. “There are already 18 detainees, plus those from the City for the destruction in Congress,” the official wrote on her social network account X, and maintained that among them there are “coincidentally two Chileansone known for participating in the total destruction of the brother country in 2019.”
After the riots, which included attacks by protesters and repression by security forces, the official indicated that she was going to go deeper into the case to “investigate each of those involved and request the expulsion of the two Chileans who participated in this disaster.” “which he makes pay“, he concluded in his post.
On the other hand, the Buenos Aires City Police confirmed that 13 people remain detained after the incidents, including 12 men, one minor and a woman, who were placed at the disposal of Justice.
According to police sources, of those detained, “five of them, four adults and one minor, were arrested when they were vandalizing a bank branch in Rivadavia at 1300 and for burning containers.”
Besides, seven men and a woman were captured on 300 Callao Avenue, allegedly for throwing bottles and other objects at the Federal Police.
“Deep concern” of the National Academy of Journalism for the photojournalists injured in front of Congress
Regarding the arrests that Bullrich referred to, these are two photographers: Pablo Sabando Aburto, Chilean, 35 years old, with six years of residence in the country, and Sergio Luciano RIvottado, 43. Both are press workers linked to the Network for the Defense of Human Rights and Democracy.
The conflicts occurred while the omnibus law was being debated in Congress, since those who were against the project demonstrated nearby, mostly people grouped in left-wing organizations and picketers. Given this, the security forces advanced with pepper spray, rubber bullets and water cannon trucks to drive away those who were gathered there.
Patricia Bullrich supported the actions carried out by the security forces in Plaza Congreso and expressed on her social networks: “We will file a criminal complaint and ask for the identification of all those who burned public property by throwing stones, destroying everything as they passed and attacking police officials.” . “I congratulate the professionalism of the Federal Forces. The organizations must pay the damages caused and the expenses of the operation. “He who makes them, pays for them,” he said.
Human Rights Organizations ask to identify all detainees
The Provincial Memory Commission asked to know the identity of the detainees in a statement that it published on its Instagram social network account:
“The Provincial Commission for Memory, which monitors, together with the National Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the CABA Prevention Mechanism, the use of police force in demonstrations, reports that they have data from the justice system that accounts for 14 detainees. between both jurisdictions, compared to the public statements of the Minister of Security of the Nation, Patricia Bullrich, who report 18 arrests and the Minister of Security of the City of Buenos Aires, Waldo Wolff, who reports another 13, totaling 31 between both jurisdictions yesterday (Friday) in the repression in front of Congress.”
“Even adding the three days, the judicial records amount to 23 people. For this reason We ask both ministers to rectify the information or make known the identity of the 17 people who were not informed“they added.
On the other hand, from the Antirepressive Coordinator for the Rights of the People (CADeP) They reported that Martin Alderete, Silvia Pelozo and Marcela Dal Santo, members of the organization, assumed the defense of the first 13 people detained.
“From CADeP we will continue to extend our fraternal hand to defend both in the streets and in the courts those who are persecuted and criminalized for protesting,” the coordinator reported.
RB / Dog