Penelope Canonico
01/08/2021 17:21
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 01/08/2021 17:21
-Goodnight.
They are making festive flowers in the Araucos and Mangoré, in the Peralta Ramos forest.
The music is very loud.
From the screams, it just seemed like they were fighting.
-We will send a mobile as soon as possible
The anonymous complaint reaches the Municipal Operations and Monitoring Center of Mar del Plata (COM MGP), located on Juan B Justo street at 3600, by
WhatsApp phone line 2234368599
.
A patrol car on a night tour confirms the presence of 32 minors crowded with a large amount of alcohol inside
a two-story home
.
He requests reinforcements due to the lack of control he observes from one of the windows.
Dancing, screaming and music bouncing off the walls.
Clarín
accompanies the operation against clandestine parties, which receives the alert and travels in a caravan
to the residential area.
Procedure in Mar del Plata, after a complaint from neighbors.
Photo MARCELO CARROLL
A few blocks before the destination, the lights of the police vehicles are turned off to
"not fan unsuspecting giles
.
"
The trip is by dirt roads, a forest reserve where several celebrations outside the law have already been dismantled.
But the arrival of the patrol at 2.25 in the morning does not go unnoticed by the young people.
They turn off the lights and reduce the volume of the music to a minimum.
Some try to jump out of the windows, others unsuccessfully sneak into the depths of the forest to hide the bottles.
A concert of flashlights and cell phones exchanging audio.
"We're leaving," says a blond boy who introduces himself as the owner of the house.
He is 17 years old and assures that his parents are traveling in Buenos Aires.
They are all minors, between 15 and 17, except for one 18-year-old who does not dare to appear before the authorities for fear of retaliation from his parents.
"No one can move until a responsible adult comes to sign the minutes and take care of you,"
shouts one of the agents
.
The breach of the sanitary measures ordered by the National Government is evident.
There is no social distancing or gel alcohol in sight.
While the green spaces are inspected in search of other bottles
, the first chinstraps appear that hide shyness, fear and conflicting positions.
Drinks seized from minors in Mar del Plata.
Photo MARCELO CARROLL
"SHHHHHH," they yell inside as footsteps can be heard pacing back and forth.
Some laughs are part of the ruckus.
In common agreement, they cover the windows with curtains.
They argue among themselves, someone shuts himself up to cry in the bathroom and another person breaks down in the living room.
They put cold cloths on it.
"I have to cover this up," mutters a young woman stunned by the police presence.
Other boys approach the entrance door with their backpacks loaded.
They hide bottles of Fernet and soda with which they try to hide the bulge.
5.30 am some parents show up to sign the infraction report.
Under authorization of the Federal Prosecutor's Office No. 2 in charge of Dr. Daniel Adler,
they are responsible for all minors present.
In the shift from 22 to 7, 8 clandestine parties were dismantled, one had 150 participants between 25 and 30 years old.
There were 34 complaints received, 19 false alarms.
The municipal ordinance provides fines of up to one million pesos for the owners of
the properties where this kind of event takes place.
A party ruined in the middle of the night.
Photo MARCELO CARROLL
The clandestine is the queen of the pandemic.
The call is usually made by closed WhatsApp networks or groups.
The interested party must send a message and
join a list
.
Private properties.
The meeting address is passed by the organizer through the same route, sometimes after midnight, already around the starting time, so that it does not spread and thus avoid any type of police intervention.
In some, tickets are charged, unlimited drinks are offered and stickers are used to cover the cameras of the attendees' cell phones.
"It is a ruse to prevent images from being uploaded to the networks,"
underlines municipal staff.
”They tend to break up around 20-25 days a day on weekdays and up to 120 a day on weekends.
We have two modes of control.
Neighborhood monitoring through the 1,136 cameras installed throughout the city and complaints via the WhasApp line, ”explained Gustavo Jara and Martín Ferlauto, Undersecretaries of Security in the Municipality of General Pueyrredón.
Uncle's Tale
-Sorry again.
Let's go for the fifth night.
I'm already embarrassed.
Matheu between Bernardo and Pelegrini.
Right hand going up to the coast.
"Come on, the police are coming, decentralize," shouts a crowd of people in the middle of the road: 25 young people evacuate in groups to different directions.
It is the third time that a general inspection and security traffic operation arrives at the same address on Matheu Street.
At each opportunity, it is usually inhabited by different tenants from the interior.
- What is your name?
- Jero. We are seven tenants from Tucumán, I put on a little bus that is cold and we are leaving.
- What were they doing?
- It was a preview.
We take a little too much.
It's not our fault.
The quilombo was put together by the people of Santa Fe who were there before.
The escape of one of them was frustrated when he tried to get into his Peugeot 208. "I went out to run my parked car because I heard screams and it scared me," he excuses himself while they take a breathalyzer test. After 3 unsuccessful attempts, the truth is exposed to the view of all: 1.47 of alcohol in blood when tolerance is 0 in the seaside resort.
Not knowing what to do, the Santa Fe asks for help from his girlfriend and friends who try to help him in vain.
Words get stuck
.
“The car is already hijacked and in charge of the court.
Tomorrow you can come and pick it up ”, he listens in astonishment as he watches paralyzed as the tow truck takes away the gray vehicle.
The police wait for a major to take care of the minors, after disrupting a clandestine party.
Photo MARCELO CARROLL
A saint without problems
-In Falucho there is a clandestine party of more than 20 people with loud music.
-We are celebrating Gauchito Gil.
Would you like a glass of wine ?, invites the owner of the house.
A family celebration of 7 people venerates the figure of the saint.
Dressed in red, they gather in the living room to sing to him in front of the altar that they improvised.
A bandoneon accompanies the melodies at dawn on a Friday in January.
Another false alarm in a neighborhood on Santiago del Estero Street.
Five people eat barbecue and listen to loud music because they fire a man who is going on a trip.
“Many times, these are simple family gatherings.
They are only asked to lower the noise level ”, explains an agent while from the handie receives another alert.
The new destination is San Lorenzo at 3698. They denounce annoying bustle and concentration of 25 people.
The story goes on.
GS