08/02/2020 - 15:25
- Clarín.com
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner criticized the actions of the City Police after the arrest of a group of protesters during a march through Santiago Maldonado.
He did it through his Twitter account, where he supported the claim of the Interior Minister, Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro, so that the Buenos Aires Government "sets objective criteria in the police actions" of the City. The minister had spoken of "repression" on his social networks.
The "forceful elements" that the City Police kidnapped the 13 detainees after a march by Santiago Maldonado.
The City Police reported that the 13 people detained after the protest (6 women and 7 men of legal age) had "forceful elements" seized, such as marble balls, pieces of metal, three bottles containing alcohol and lime, three paint sprays, goggles, masks, lemons, rubber bands. All the apprehended were transferred to the 13th Mayor's Office, due to their background as members of an anarchist group .
In addition, a video was released in which protesters throw Molotov bombs at a Gendarmerie building.
"Wado is right: for the City government, not all citizens are equal, " the vice president tweeted. And in her publication, I post a message from De Pedro's national official, in which she yesterday asked the Buenos Aires authorities to investigate the police actions.
"After several anti-quarantine marches in which journalists and mobile phones were even attacked without a single police officer from the City appearing, today we saw the repression of Maldonado's relatives and organizations that remembered the anniversary of his death," was one of De Pedro's messages.
In addition, he demanded that the Buenos Aires authorities investigate the facts and that they " establish objective criteria in police action to guarantee EVERYONE their right to express themselves, beyond sympathy."
Wado is right: for City government, not all citizens are equal. https://t.co/gU9aWHOHYd
- Cristina Kirchner (@CFKArgentina) August 2, 2020The incidents in the marches to ask for justice for Maldonado are not new. In 2017, when the young artisan had been missing for a month, a protest in the City ended with stones and bottles between K protesters and left-wing groups.
On August 1, 2019, a march to request that the legal case for the death of the artisan not be closed passed without incident, but during the deconcentration, graffiti was made in the Cabildo and on the facades of some buildings in the center of Buenos Aires, in of some bullfights in the vicinity of the Plaza de Mayo between protesters and the Police.
The "forceful elements" that the City Police kidnapped the 13 detainees after a march by Santiago Maldonado.
On Saturday, Maldonado's human rights and family leaders held a virtual event for the third anniversary of the disappearance followed by the death of the young craftsman, which occurred in the Pu Lof de Cushamen, in Chubut.
However, a group of protesters held a march in the Buenos Aires Obelisk area and were detained by the City Police, who kidnapped elements to cause destruction.
The "forceful elements" that the City Police kidnapped the 13 detainees after a march by Santiago Maldonado.
For this reason, the Minister of the Interior and the Vice President came out to question the City Government with whom they maintain strong political differences, while the figure of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta continues to grow among supporters of the Frente de Todos, which generates an internal party in the ruling party. national.