11/27/2020 11:52
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 11/27/2020 11:52 AM
The unprecedented violence that was experienced inside the Casa Rosada during Diego Armando Maradona's wake tarnished the final farewell to Argentina's greatest idol.
And, also, it generated a new counterpoint between the Nation and the City of Buenos Aires.
This Friday, hours after everything ended, President Alberto Fernández attributed the incidents to barrabravas and admitted that they did not foresee that situation.
But he also joined in the criticism of the City and the Buenos Aires Police for what happened on 9 de Julio Avenue.
"
That would have happened anywhere
if we found a group of violent men willing to enter anywhere with violence, it is very difficult to solve it. However, we solved it without there being any injuries, no blows, no rubber bullets. we resolved. We closed the doors, we deployed the Gendarmerie, "said Fernández.
In statements to
Con Vos
radio
, the president outlined a kind of self-criticism regarding what happened in the Government House itself: "Surely we should have anticipated the presence of barrabravas. But since we have no contact with barrabravas, we trust a lot in social conscience "he said, while highlighting that" the vast majority of those who went to fire Maradona did not participate in the violent events. "
But Fernández did not miss the possibility of targeting the City of Buenos Aires when talking about the events that took place on Avenida 9 de Julio and Avenida de Mayo, when a cut was made in the long line of people waiting to fire Maradona.
"I asked the Secretary of Human Rights (Horacio Pietragalla) to investigate. It seems to me that there was an excessive act of the City Police, it is very evident. I have seen a guy with a flag who was thrown a rubber bullet at Two meters away, and the guy is standing with a flag. That is something incomprehensible.
That violence is incomprehensible.
But that in no way depended on us, "he said.
News in development.
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