A group of neighbors
cut the Riccheri highway this Friday
, at the height of Villa Celina, near the Federal Capital, to demand greater security after the murder of a man in the 17 de Noviembre neighborhood.
With banners and burning tires, the residents stationed themselves about 200 meters from the Central Market tollbooth and promised to stay indefinitely.
The victim's sister-in-law, Margarita, said that her relative was murdered after asking a group of neighborhood criminals to leave a soccer field used by people in the area and had been taken over by this gang.
"My brother-in-law came out in defense of the entire neighborhood and they killed him," the woman lamented.
Another of the protesters recounted: "We feel abandoned. We don't have security and that's why we act by our own hand, to be able to get the drug traffickers out of the neighborhood."
"We are constantly afraid. We live in fear. We can't go out to work, we can't take the kids to school. The police don't patrol and I told them 'how do you want us to feel safe if you get paid by drug traffickers,'" he denounced. the woman, moved.
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