Police abuses: Mario Negri calls for the resignation of the secretary of Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla

06/03/2020 - 13:20

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Faced with cases of police abuse in different provinces, the head of the bench of Together for Change in Deputies, Mario Negri, called for the resignation of the Secretary for Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla.

"The President should relieve the Secretary of Human Rights of his charge for his inaction in cases of police violence in San Luis, Tucumán and Chaco. Pietragalla presented himself as amicus curie to obtain the release of Jaime, but he does nothing in the face of these very serious events" , he pointed.

The President should relieve the Secretary of #DDHH of his position for his inaction in cases of police violence in San Luis, Tucumán and Chaco. #Pietragalla appeared as amicus curie to obtain Jaime's freedom, but he does nothing in the face of these very serious events.

Along these lines, Negri added: "Argentina cannot have a Human Rights Secretary who only acts when the rights of the friends in power or members of his political party such as Ricardo Jaime are at stake."

For its part, the radical group requests the presence of Pietragalla and the Minister of Security, Sabina Frederic, in Congress to give explanations on the subject.

The legislators - led by the vice president of the Internal Security commission, Alvaro de Lamadrid and the vice president of the human rights commission, Sebastián Salvador - demanded the "urgent presence in the lower house" of both officials to "give reports as a result of the repeated cases of police abuse that have occurred in recent days, within the framework of the restrictions imposed by the health emergency. "

"We are very concerned with the acts of institutional violence that we are seeing in recent weeks by the provincial police, some of which ended in deaths, such as the case of Luis Espinoza in Tucumán or Franco Maranguello and Magalí Morales in San Luis. And in the last hours we have seen the brutal actions of the Chaco police against members of the Qom community, ”said Salvador.

"Four murders in democracy without response. With total silence from the Government, from human rights organizations, where it seems that some deaths matter in Argentina and others do not," added De Lamadrid.

In the same sense he expressed himself in the head of the bench of Together for Change in the Senate, Luis Naidenoff.

"What happened in Chaco is the worst of the germ of institutional violence: beatings, threats, rapes of girls and abuses. An urgent state presence is necessary. The context of the pandemic is not a blank check for the security forces They commit horrors like the ones we saw, "he said, adding:" I hope that Governor Jorge Capitanich and President Alberto Fernández will emerge from their quarantine of silence and act quickly to contain the victims and condemn the abusers. "

I hope that Governor @jmcapitanich and President @alferdez come out of their quarantine of silence and act quickly to contain the victims and condemn the abusers.

PDL