08/02/2020 - 15:29
- Clarín.com
- Police
During the act that human rights and family members of Santiago Maldonado carried out on Saturday for the third anniversary of the death of the young craftsman , a group of anarchists attacked the mutual group of the National Gendarmerie in the neighborhood of Balvanera with Molotov bombs.
In the images you can see a group of people with their faces covered, throwing the devices against the building and then running away , while the fire breaks out at the entrance of Bartolomé Miter at 2200.
Although the Coordinator against the Police and Institutional Repression (Correpi) had denounced that members of the City Police repressed the protesters in the vicinity of the Congress, from the Buenos Aires force they assured that it was the arrest of an anarchist group that produced incidents and assaulted police.
Part of the objects that kidnapped the attackers.
According to police sources, the protesters were hanging flags and insulting the troops. They even spat at one and threw lime with water and alcohol at three other officers, who were injured.
The sources indicated that eight people were arrested for the attacks, four men and four women, who were seized with sprays, bottles with paint, rubber bands and stones, among other items. In addition, five other people were later arrested, as they did not have permits to circulate and carried gomeras.
Broken glass and other damage to the attacked Gendarmerie headquarters.
In this context, a group of protesters went to the Bartolomé Miter 2264 headquarters, where they threw stones and a Molotov cocktail against the building's facade. Although there were no injuries, material damage was recorded in the complex.
The Prosecutor's Office for Criminal, Contravention and Misdemeanors No. 17 intervenes in the case.
These arrests generated the reaction of Vice President Cristina Kirchner, who criticized the actions of the City Police.
He did it through his Twitter account where he supported the claim of the Interior Minister, Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro, so that the Buenosairean government "fixes objective criteria in the police action".
Wado is right: for City government, not all citizens are equal. https://t.co/gU9aWHOHYd
- Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) August 2, 2020"For the City government, not all citizens are equal," questioned the former president.