12/02/2020 11:30
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/02/2020 12:14
Knowing the lack of control that could be unleashed on the outskirts of the Casa Rosada, as a result of the number of people who wanted to fire Diego Maradona, President Alberto Fernández himself approached the fences and began to give directions with a megaphone.
The unusual scene, which was taken by a user and uploaded to social networks, occurred minutes before the incidents already known in the farewell of the Argentine star took place.
"Look, we are organizing it so that there will be a few more hours ...
What we need is for them to reorganize themselves and for them to re-enter the way they were entering ..."
, the President is heard saying, to the shouts of the fans .
What happened next is what was seen in the media and in networks: the closure of the Rosada, riots and even incidents with the police in the surroundings.
The internal confusion was such that the authorities chose to take the drawer to protect it minutes before 4 p.m.
The controversial last goodbye to Maradona in front of the Casa Rosada.
Photo Guillermo Rodríguez Adami
The controversy over the security operation at the wake continues to be a source of crossfire between the nation and the city.
The Minister of Security, Sabina Frederic, insisted on denying that they had ordered to interrupt the line of fans on Avenida de Mayo and Avenida 9 de Julio on Thursday afternoon, which generated the first incidents.
However, in internal documents of the City Police it is noted that this measure was in charge of the Military House, which manages security at La Rosada.
In a minute it was indicated that at 12.30 the Military House requested that "the entrance of the public to Plaza de Mayo be blocked," since Maradona's family wanted the ceremony to end at 16, but the queue of people who wanted to fire at "10" it reached Constitución.
The images of that day show a Dantesque scene.
Before 3:00 p.m., everything got out of control at the Executive headquarters, where the fans overflowed the entrances and forcibly entered the Patio de las Palmeras, amid tear gas.
Even a few hours later, Alberto Fernández defended the operation and pointed out that "if we had not organized this, everything would have been worse."
"Everything worked very well, until some, seeing that the schedule was going to leave them outside, rushed over the front door, broke the front door and everything got complicated there," the president said in an interview with
Continental
radio
.
And he added: "What happened today, we would have liked not to happen, and it was because of the desperation of some to fire Maradona."
In the radio report, Fernández also went to the intersection of opposition leaders who accused him of "doing politics" with the wake of the soccer star in La Rosada.
"Anyone who thinks that behind this there is a political act has no idea of Argentine sentiment. If we had not organized this, everything would have been worse. It was unstoppable. These people who are on the side of the road, an hour ago they did not know they were going to pass by ".
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