04/04/2021 13:58
Clarín.com
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Updated 04/04/2021 13:58
A strong controversy broke out this Saturday in a town in Entre Ríos: in the middle of the second wave of coronavirus infections, the municipality of Santa Elena
organized a party for 3,000 people
without protocols, in which even the communal chief himself participated.
The event was held on land that was authorized to carry out a construction site on the city's waterfront.
There, the mayor
Domingo Rossi
inaugurated a section of the work and after cutting the ribbon he began the festivities.
The event was recorded in a series of videos that went through local media and social networks.
There you can see those present without respecting the distancing measures and the use of the chinstrap, as established by the care against Covid-19.
According to information from the local site
El Once
, despite the large number of people,
no one from the Naval Prefecture or the Entre Ríos Police tried to prevent the festivities from taking place
, as ordered by the Federal Justice and the Ministry of Government. from the province.
The inauguration was also attended by the provincial deputy Sergio Castrillón and the delegate of the national government in Roads, Daniel Koch.
The party organized by the municipality of Santa Elena, for 3,000 people.
Video capture.
The event occurs a few days after another celebration was held in the town of Crespo, also in Entre Ríos, for some 500 older adults.
Just like what happened in Santa Elena, in that case it was not a clandestine party, but an event authorized by the local municipality, headed by Darío Schneider, from Together for Change.
In this case, it is a reprehensible event organized by Mayor Rossi, who according to the local site
Analysis
, was elected by the Vecinalismo group and is leading his fifth term in the municipality.
Before that, he had been deputy governor of the province, second to the Peronist Jorge Busti, between 1987 and 1991.
That same site recalled that the current communal chief
"was condemned for illicit enrichment
after verifying the movement of millionaire sums in dollars, in Uruguayan bank accounts, in the 1990s and almost coinciding with the privatization of the Santa Elena refrigerator."
For that fact,
the justice sentenced him in 2006 to a sentence of three years
in prison.
Currently, he faces with his partner, Councilor Patricia García, "another judicial process also for accounts in Uruguay."
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