06/18/2020 - 14:28
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Uruguayan Justice gave the go-ahead, this Thursday, to the extradition request of Sebastián Romero , the left-wing militant who became known for firing with a kind of homemade mortar at the police in December 2017 in front of the National Congress.
Federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral had requested the extradition last Thursday. He had been a fugitive for two years .
Romero, a militant of the Socialist Unified Workers Party (PSTU) and known as the "fat mortar ", had escaped from the country after the fact, but was finally arrested in late May in Uruguay, in the city of Chuy, after an investigation. Interpol and the Federal Police.
He was wanted for a cause for "injuries in aggression, public intimidation and an attack on the authority, the latter aggravated by having been committed by an armed force and by a meeting of more than three people" promoted by Patricia Bullrich, government security minister by Mauricio Macri.
With his African braids and a tumbero mortar in his hands, Sebastián Romero became the image of the violence against 88 members of the metropolitan who were injured on December 18, 2017 in front of Congress, when a Mauritian bill was being debated. Macri to adjust pensions for inflation.
Before that episode, Romero was a union delegate at the General Motors company in Rosario and a pre-candidate for national deputy in the 2015 legislative elections for the Unified Socialist Workers Party (PSTU) within the Left and Workers Front (FIT) that integrates the Partido Obrero (PO).
While on the run, Romero defied Justice and sent messages on social networks calling for demonstrations to remove Macri and his Chilean colleague, Sebastián Piñera, from the government. In March 2018, through a letter published on Twitter, he defined himself as a politically persecuted person and expressed: "We have to remove Macri as we removed De La Rúa in 2001."
In February 2018, an international arrest warrant was activated and a reward set to try to catch him.
News in development.
