05/01/2020 - 17:09
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The massive outflow of prisoners by the coronavirus added another black chapter. The general director of Crime and Violence Prevention of the Municipality of Quilmes was displaced, after it was known that she also represents Villa Devoto prisoners in the claim of home prisons. The scandal broke out in an ultrakirchnerista district, governed by Mayra Mendoza, at a time when the Government seeks to detach itself from the releases.
This Thursday, Claudia Cesaroni reported on social networks her departure from the Municipality "by mutual agreement". He said that within the framework of his "militancy in the defense of the rights of people deprived of their liberty" he is "accompanying the claims of the group of detainees housed in the Villa Devoto prison", which "becomes incompatible" with his role in community management.
Hours before, he had sat at the Dialogue Table that was formed in Devoto after the riot last week, to analyze, among other things, the situation of detainees who could receive domiciles for being part of risk groups for the coronavirus.
They also negotiate better conditions in the prison. "We ask for several things, among them the system of food, hygiene and control, care in relation to the prevention of Covid-19," said the lawyer before television cameras.
His double role was exposed and caused a political earthquake in Quilmes, one of the districts of the Conurbano hardest hit by insecurity. Together for the Change it motorized a fast request of resignation from the Deliberative Council.
The president of that legislative bloc, Juan Bernasconi, marked in dialogue with Clarín : "There is an ethical and moral incompatibility. You cannot be director of Crime Prevention in the Municipality and defend the prisoners of the Devoto prison. We were concerned about the safety of the people of Quilmeños . The neighbors and ourselves are alarmed. How would this person act in the face of an act of insecurity? "
Cesaroni was in 2004 one of the creators of the Center for Studies in Criminal Policy and Human Rights (CEPOC). From there, he dedicated himself to defending inmates and opposed "the hard-handed demands of Juan Carlos Blumberg and those who used the horrible death of his son to demand disastrous policies, which still endure," he said in an extensive Twitter thread that he published. this Friday.
Regarding his intervention in Devoto, he explained: "I do not charge a peso for doing that. I am not an advocate for prisoners, nor do I sponsor them. I accompany them, along with Andrea Casamento, head of the Association of Relatives of Detainees, because they trust in us. Why do they trust? Because we are honest and combative, I guess. "
Mayra Mendoza, the only woman at the small table in La Cámpora, had added her to the Security area as soon as she took over at the Municipality, in December 2019.
The mayor surrounded herself with ultrakirchnerists from different areas in the assembly of their management teams. Apart from being from Quilmeña, Cesaroni had a background in the public service.
She worked in the Penitentiary Office between 2001 and 2004, and in the Nation's Secretariat for Human Rights from 2004 to 2010, when she went to Panama to assume as deputy director of the Association for the Prevention of Torture.
"I was earning very well, in dollars, but I missed my country and when Nestor (Kirchner) died, that anguish over being away made me resign and return," he recalled.
The fact that Cesaroni has assumed the representation of Devoto's inmates while serving as an ultra-K district official does not help the government's strategy to get out of the focus of mass releases . On the contrary. And from high places they would have let Mayra Mendoza know.
In the Quinta de Olivos and the Casa Rosada they took a record of the social moodiness of the home prisons, which had its maximum sign of rejection in the half-hour saucepan that sounded on Thursday night in the City of Buenos Aires, Mendoza and other points from the country.
That is why they sought to lower the tone of their speech and the statements of President Alberto Fernández and Governor Axel Kicillof accumulated downward, ensuring that there will be no pardons or commutations of sentences.
In addition, the Executive sent minor officials to the Devotee Dialogue Table on Thursday. The absence that made the most noise in prison was that of the Secretary of Justice, Juan Martín Mena, key in the previous meeting and promoter of some fundamental "promises" to defuse the riot. The negotiation went to an intermediate room until May 6 and they expect it at the next meeting. It was a request from the prisoners and their representatives.