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Land grabbing in the South: the desperate video of one of the hostage families of the Mapuches

2020-10-18T23:28:02.145Z


Pablo and Débora Meyer published a message relating their precarious reality during the virtual "site" of a Mapuche community that occupied their field four days ago.


Claudio Andrade

10/18/2020 7:45 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

Updated 10/18/2020 7:45 PM

Members of the Meyer family, owners, together with the Soriani, of the field usurped by a Mapuche community in El Foyel, 75 kilometers from Bariloche, released a video this Sunday to denounce their complex situation and leave a greeting to their mother to whom they did not can see in these circumstances.

“For four days we have been kidnapped here by this group of pseudo Mapuches in our field in El Foyel.

We want to ask everyone not to lower their arms, to thank all those who are supporting us and the security forces who take care of us ”, says Pablo Meyer to the camera accompanied by his sister

Débora Meyer, wife of Martín Soriani.

Behind them the imposing mountain range natural space.

"And we ask all politicians, prosecutors and judges to try to do their job, to make an effort, we are here and we are not having a good time.

We cannot enter food, they do not let us in or out.

If we go out, we fear we won't be able to go back in, ”he continues.

"And a happy day to ours, that unfortunately we cannot be with her", closes Mayer.

Both are seen saddened and with tired faces after 4 days of "siege" by more than 50 members of the Gallardo Calfú lof that last Thursday landed in the field of almost 400 hectares and blocked the access roads.

The Mapuches claim the territory as their own based on an alleged scam of which the original owner,

Félix Gallardo Calfú

, was the

victim in 1980 by Miguel Soriani.

Throughout these four decades, the Gallardo Calfú resorted to the Río Negro justice on three occasions, but the magistrates' decisions worked in favor of the Soriani, the family reported.

This Friday,

the Judge of Guarantees Ricardo Calcagno did not agree

to the eviction request requested by the prosecutor Francisco Arrien pending the arrest of Blanca Rosa Gallardo and Juan Carlos Oyarzo, the leaders of the take, who were considered in absentia by not attending the courts in El Bolsón.

This Monday will take place the challenge hearing by the prosecutor before Judge Marcelo Álvarez Melinger, provincial sources reported.

GS

Source: clarin

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