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Strike of groups for the crime of the driver: they lift the measure of force in most of the lines, but two still do not work

2023-04-04T11:55:17.477Z


Both operate within the party of La Matanza. The remainder that had folded restored their service at midnight.


After a start to the week where several bus lines did not work in the City and Greater Buenos Aires due to the strike initiated to demand greater security measures, after the crime of

driver Daniel Barrientos

, only two lines continue on Tuesday with the measure of strength.

They are number

620

, where the bus driver murdered in Virrey del Pino worked, and number

382.

Line 620 operates within the La Matanza district.

Its different branches run through the towns of Lomas del Mirador, Ramos Mejía, San Justo, Isidro Casanova, Gregorio de Laferrere, González Catán and Virrey del Pino.

Line 382, ​​meanwhile, joins Ciudadela and Lomas del Mirador with Virrey del Pino and Pontevedra, in the Merlo district.

After the murder of the driver of the 620 during an assault in Virrey del Pino, early this Monday the Union of Automobile Workers (UTA) had launched a strike that was extended as the day progressed and in the midst of the confrontation of the workers with the Buenos Aires security minister, Sergio Berni.

One of the punches Berni received during the drivers' protest.

Photo: Maxi Failla

"The death of our partner adds to a number of episodes of insecurity that have been affecting drivers, especially throughout the AMBA, for which the UTA says ENOUGH and anticipates that the measures will be deepened as long as the authorities do not guarantee the conditions minimum safety at work in our entire sector," the UTA statement said.

The measure of force initially affected lines 88, 96, 216, 218, 236, 269, 284, 325, 378, 382, ​​443, 620, 622 and 828, which circulate in the west of Greater Buenos Aires.

Many are from the company Almafuerte.

During the afternoon, the "Juan Manuel Palacios" group, opposed to the national leadership of the UTA, which basically brings together workers from dozens of lines of the DOTA company, folded.

The cessation of activities began at 12 noon and

lasted until midnight.

For his part, Roberto Fernández -general secretary of the UTA- confirmed that the strike called this Monday by the union "was only in the western zone" and as regards a national strike, he stated that "it does not exist".

So did the body of delegates and the workers of line 60, who resolved to "abstain from tasks" and call general assemblies in repudiation of the crime.

They demanded that the national union "put itself in charge of these events and adopt the pertinent measures in unity with all the drivers, since the leaders have the responsibility of ensuring working and safety conditions."

There was also a roadblock

Added to the collective strike was a roadblock at General Paz and Route 3, in repudiation of the acts of insecurity.

The bus drivers interrupted traffic on the route of the Buenos Aires highway in both directions.

That was where Berni was attacked.


"We want security, we are not asking for anything else," the drivers told

TN

.

They threatened to go to Plaza de Mayo if they did not have answers from the authorities.

Protest for the death of Daniel Barrientos.

Photo: Maxi Failla

It is that according to what they say, it is the same area where in 2018 Leandro Alcaraz, another bus driver, was murdered.

who made the route that went from General Paz avenue and Route 3 to Virrey del Pino, in La Matanza.

At the height of the Paroissien Hospital, in Isidro Casanova, Cristhian López Brizuela went up, a man who did not want to pay the ticket because he did not have a balance on the SUBE card.

Not being able to travel, he fired two shots at her.

Despite this, they never received a response from the authorities with measures that guarantee their safety.

Barrientos's death

The 65-year-old driver - he was a month away from retiring - was driving down Calle Escribano, in the Vernazza neighborhood of Virrey del Pino, towards the head of San Justo.

According to the account of the driver's companions, a group of three criminals got into the unit around 5:30 in the morning to rob.

The criminals tried to rob the few passengers who were in the unit.

They took a backpack from a woman who was in front and went to the back, where there was a policeman who was in civilian clothes.

There he called out a halt and started a shootout with the robbers.

According to witnesses, one of those shots hit Barrientos, who died instantly. 

Daniel Barrientos, the bus driver murdered in a robbery in Virrey del Pino.

The attackers managed to escape after the crime on land adjacent to a soft drink factory.

The police experts found seven bullet casings and the weapon of one of the criminals that fell during the escape.

A suspect was arrested

for the crime

, and it is being investigated whether he was the author of the fatal shot.

It was made available to prosecutor Gastón Duplaá, from the La Matanza Homicide Functional Instruction Unit (UFI), who is also trying to establish whether a car found burned in the area belongs to the same criminals.

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Source: clarin

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