Julio Rodríguez
06/02/2020 - 11:09
- Clarín.com
- Society
A family from the Qom community in Fontana reported that she was violently repressed and beaten inside her home by the Chaco police forces. Women, youth and minors were handcuffed and taken to a police station. There, according to the indictment, they were allegedly sprayed with alcohol and threatened with fire. The young women reported that they were also victims of sexual violence.
Official sources in Chaco confirmed to Clarín on Tuesday that the police officers involved were removed from their posts, while the investigation into the events proceeds.
It all happened on Saturday night in the Banderas Argentinas neighborhood of Fontana, a neighboring city with Resistencia. In videos circulating on the networks, the police forces are seen entering the Qom family home with great violence, without showing a court order and lashing out at the entire family . The scenes are shocking.
"Repression is not new; violence is always linked to police action in the Chaco ," Orlando Charone, president of the Provincial Institute of Indigenous Affairs , told Clarín . He blamed justice because "it is they who authorize the force" that uses violence.
They denounce a brutal raid on the home of a Qom family in Chaco
According to Charole, the marginalized social sectors, "when they claim for their rights, end up being violently repressed. It is not the right way to resolve conflicts."
The violent repression and raid by the Chaco police was recorded in videos circulating on social networks. Once inside the police station, according to the complaint, the police insulted and threatened the aborigines: "infected Indians, you are a bad habit . "
The Secretary of Human Rights and Genders of Chaco intervened, intervened after receiving the complaint on Sunday morning on the hotline. "The relatives reported that all the detainees were injured by police personnel, who with impunity and cruelty took them to the police station where they carried out torture and torture of all kinds," they said in a statement.
The young detainees "reported that the detainees had suffered sexual violence by police personnel." For this reason, the specialized team of the Violence Department was intervened, who, together with the Human Rights Guard, went to the home of the victims where the formal complaint was taken.
The agency also detailed that, according to the complaint, the policemen fired lead and rubber bullets, and that they attacked another woman who was in the house.
This procedure was also repudiated by the delegate of the National Institute Against Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racism (INADI) in Chaco, Nancy Sotelo. "This procedure occurs in a context of strong racism, in the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic," said the official.
The Secretary of Human Rights and Genders of Chaco intervened after receiving the complaint on Sunday morning in the attention line, "guaranteeing the attention, containment and advice to the victims and demanding the corresponding investigation by the police personnel who intervened in the operation. "
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