08/07/2020 - 18:54
- Clarín.com
- Politics
The left-wing activist and trade union delegate who attacked the police with a mortar in Congress Square in 2017, while the pension reform was being debated in Deputies, received house arrest, after being extradited from Uruguay after two years and half fugitive.
Sebastián Romero, a member of the Unified Socialist Workers' Party (PSTU) and delegate to the General Motors company, will continue to be detained but at a friend's house, after Judge Sebastián Casanello resolved the moderation.
The "fat mortar", as he was nicknamed in the media and networks after the images wielding a mortar and firing at the police went viral, returned to the country on June 25 after being detained in Uruguay.
It was there that they arrested him, near the border with Brazil, in Chuy, and then extradited him to Argentina.
The confrontation between the protesters against the pension reform and the police left 162 injured, and 88 of them were security personnel.
Upon arrival in the country, he was transferred to the Federal Investigations Superintendency, on Madariaga Street, in the Villa Lugano neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where he has remained until now.
The case passed into the hands of Casanello after the resignation of Rodolfo Canicoba Corral, who left office days ago on his 75th birthday.