Coronavirus in Argentina: cacerolazo in different Buenos Aires neighborhoods against the release of prisoners

04/29/2020 - 21:15

• Clarín.com
• Society

It was called for Thursday at 8:00 p.m., but the cacerolazo protesting the release of prisoners due to the coronavirus pandemic was heard loudly in many of the country's balconies and windows this Wednesday.

In neighborhoods like Palermo, Belgrano, Caballito, Flores, Recoleta, among others the saucepans and the applause sounded with intensity. But not only in the Federal Capital, the noise was replicated in Córdoba and Rosario , according to different users of social networks.

According to the message that circulates mainly on WhatsApp, it shows a clear intention: "We are fed up with the lack of security and the complicity of officials and judges with crime, and we want victims and not murderers to be protected and privileged , rapists, drug traffickers and corrupt of all laya ", warns the call.

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"What will happen to the police and gendarmes, to the prosecutors and judges who locked them up and condemn them, and to the families of all of them, who will now be threatened by the criminals once again released?" Ask the promoters of the protest.

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Along the same lines, the message adds: "Sooner or later, those who have embarked on this campaign to allow the creation of a new 'Vatayón Militante', formed by hitmen in the best style of the Chavista paramilitary militias, will have to answer for it."

The release of Buenos Aires prisoners with risk factors for the coronavirus generated a stir in recent days.

#CacerolazoContraPresos #Cacerolazo impressive in Rosario

On www.change.org, a website where requests for a "social change" are made, a user asked "NO TO THE DEPARTURE OF PRISONERS !!!", it already has more than 400 thousand signatures in less than three days and seeks to reach at least 500,000.

Among those who signed in favor of that request are Matías Bagnato , a survivor of the Flores massacre, and Viviam Perrone , the mother of Kevin Sedano, who was run over in Olivos in 2002 by a motorist.

From change.org they told Clarín that it is not usual for this number of signatures to be added in such a short time : it is the one that obtained the most in 2020. They argue that it generally occurs with Justice cases that produce outrage in society and that the The scope of this request was thanks to the media exposure.