The teacher who had to interrupt her speech at the event for the Malvinas War Combatant's Day, when a group of former soldiers left disgusted by the content of her words, will now have "urgent prevention measures" granted by Justice Federal.
Professor
Soledad Reyes
, from school No. 6 of Verónica, in the Punta Indio district, proposed at the central ceremony of that city a discursive line that the attendees considered "partisan political" and began to withdraw from the square where the carry out the act.
The teacher is deputy secretary of Suteba of that municipality and identifies herself on the networks as “Militante Nac y Pop de Néstor y Cristina.” While talking about the historical context in which the war against the United Kingdom took place, Reyes mentioned that "the media convinced society that going to war was right and that it was necessary."
A sector of the former combatants murmured and decided to move away from the sector to which they had been assigned. This was seen in a video that later went viral. They were also upset because the teacher, who clarified that she teaches history classes, mentioned those who disappeared and were murdered during the military dictatorship that began in March 1976, but
"said nothing about those who fell on the islands
," as they clarified after that. decision.
The controversial end of the ceremony had a lot of impact on social platforms. And reactions that Justice considered risky for the integrity of the woman. That is why the federal judge of La Plata, Alejo Ramos Padilla, ordered, among other measures, the delivery of
an anti-panic button
. The device was awarded by the Ministry of Women of the province of Buenos Aires, it was reported this Saturday.
Soledad Reyes, a teacher from Punta Indio who was disowned in an act by Malvinas, along with Axel Kicillof. Photo: Twitter
The judicial action was promoted by the Provincial Commission for Memory (CPM). He presented a preventive habeas corpus in the federal courts of La Plata. He did so "to protect the teacher Soledad Reyes" from the
harassment and insults
that she would have received after the act of April 2 and to "preventively reverse the violation of the severed rights and guarantees."
Serious threats to the teacher in Verónica and a town with a military presence
In the complaint, the CPM presented copies of some screenshots of the messages that the teacher received on her social networks. "Community excrement", "pathetic", "brainless" and "scourge" are some of the adjectives she listed.
Furthermore, " extremely violent threats
were revealed
that vindicate and/or refer to military action during State terrorism: 'There are many streams in Punta Indio to prosecute those who are misplaced'," "soon... punishment will come in the form what it should be", "we have to put her on a green Falcon" or "this can be solved with some pineapples".
In their presentation, the complainants
held the commander of the Punta Indio Naval Air Base responsible
. "He withdrew and ordered the withdrawal of all the troops, which constituted a clear
enablement of the verbal attacks
that followed."
Video
Veterans, family members and soldiers left the scene.
From the lectern, Reyes also questioned Milei's foreign policy and the chancellor, Diana Mondino. Even the municipal mayor, David Angueira (UxP), distanced himself from the teacher's words and apologized to those who "felt offended" by the tone of the speech. There was also a statement from the local UCR rejecting the incident that provoked the anger of the veterans.
A base of the Argentine Navy has been installed in Verónica for almost 100 years. It is called Naval Air Force 1 and was created as a strategy to control access to the La Plata River. It took direct intervention in the war actions of 1982. Therefore, in that Buenos Aires town the military imprint has social roots.
The planes that bombed the Plaza de Mayo on June 16, 1955, also left from that garrison, to overthrow the government of Juan Perón.
That is the area in which the controversy broke out over Kings' speech. When the case emerged, Milei replied to some of the messages uploaded to
The next day, the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, reported that the Government would promote a project with reforms in two articles of the National Education Law, to "punish indoctrination in schools." And he announced that there will be "a channel" so that parents and students "can report when they do not feel that their right to education is being respected."
As part of the judicial procedure to protect Reyes, the judge summoned her to an exhibition in his office.
"It is essential that the institutions of democracy, its authorities and social and political organizations express themselves forcefully regarding the grievance suffered by Soledad Reyes," said the Provincial Commission for Memory in a statement.
La Plata (Correspondent)