The
biometric control system
recently installed by the municipality of
La Plata
in the Los Hornos delegation to control the presence of staff was
destroyed with hammer blows
by a man who arrived with three others to vandalize the device.
The moment was filmed.
The episode occurred this Thursday around 7:30 in the delegation located at 137 and 64, and was captured by security cameras, for which the Municipality of La Plata filed a criminal complaint.
"In the images you can see how four men enter the place and one of them destroys both the screen and the server of the device with a hammer. The facts show a clear intention to instill public fear," municipal sources specified.
And they added: "The act of vandalism was clearly carried out with a coercive purpose of threat and intimidation, intimidating the administrative employee who was at the scene and the rest of the municipal agents."
According to information provided by the municipality and replicated by
El Día
, the attacker was identified.
His name is
Gerardo Javier Currenti
, he is 43 years old and is
a municipal employee.
Until this Friday morning, they had still not requested his arrest nor had he been investigated in the case in which he is accused of "
aggravated coercion."
His accomplices had not yet been identified.
The municipality's complaint is for coercive threat, damage to municipal public assets, public intimidation and attack against authority, all of them provided for in the Penal Code.
"This is not an isolated event, it is recorded in a context of aggression and violence that is multiplying in different communal agencies in the face of the policies promoted by the current administration to guarantee transparency," they pointed out from the municipality.
In addition, they reported that similar events occurred in San Carlos and Government Tower No. 1.
The moment of the attack against biometric control.
The mayor of La Plata, Julio Alak, denounced that the previous administration had committed administrative and financial irregularities in the hiring of personnel, cooperatives and in the use of public funds.
In a statement, it was stated that in the last few hours the communal chief received a detailed document from the Association of State Internal Auditors (AAIE), chaired by accountant Vilma Castillo, and which was titled "Report on the Municipal Regime of Fiscal Responsibility and Good Government Practices".
The commune indicated that the external audit "accounts for serious administrative and financial situations within the Municipality of La Plata and ratifies the data already collected by the current management."
The audit, which took place between Monday, December 18 and Friday, January 19, worked on critical points, such as the oversized staff structure, direct hiring and municipal transparency.
The report determined that
out of a total of 12,573 agents, 56% of the people who are paid do not go to work
, which is why the biometric system has already begun to be implemented that allows entry and exit to be monitored through fingerprint scanning. digital.
In parallel, the current administration detected that a man who joined in 2019 and died in 2021 continued to receive his salary until December 2023;
It also discovered that 13 people detained for crimes such as robbery, homicide and abuse were still receiving their salaries;
and determined that 98 employees had criminal records at the time of joining the Municipality between 2015 and 2023.
Regarding the analysis referring to personnel, the new report showed that the Municipality lacks written internal control procedures that ensure reliability in operations and allow for improvement of services.
In this item, it was verified that during the last 8 years more than 6,000 agents entered, equivalent to 52% of the total current staff and that the previous management almost doubled the staff received.
With information from Télam