12/03/2020 1:38 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/03/2020 1:44 PM
The former Security Minister, Patricia Bullrich, came out to defend the three rugby players from Los Pumas, who were sanctioned for racist tweets published years ago, and assured that the athletes were victims "
of going for everything,
" an expression used by former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in one of his speeches before leaving power.
"I feel that they were victims of a violent persecution, at the wrong time, just because there was a sector that considered that the tribute to Maradona had been poor:
The Pumas were victims of 'let's go for everything', they used them as examples of evil
; trying to deepen the division of Argentines through a
class
concept
, with 19th century concepts, "wrote Bullrich in a post on social networks.
The president of the PRO spoke of
"verbal violence"
against Los Pumas and maintained that "there is a feeling of enormous injustice for what happened, because the bar is high for some and low for others", around the messages that Pablo Matera, Guido Petti and Santiago Socino, who went viral after the very poor tribute that the Argentine rugby players paid Diego Armando Maradona in their confrontation against the All Blacks.
"In relation to their publications, it is clear that they were wrong, that they were wrong, and that it does not matter what time in life they did it. Of course they were wrong. It is also true that they apologized, that they acknowledged their mistake, and they made their discharge. The UAR itself lifted the sanction because they understood that they had rushed, and that they were sponsoring an injustice, "said Bullrich.
A message from Pablo Matera.
A message from Santiago Socino.
In addition, he pointed to official voices and media that, he said, "
were behind this persecution."
"They do not care about people's lives, they only use the tools to generate damage and thus obtain some political profit," he said.
The full message
I decided to wait for the level of verbal violence to drop in relation to the issue of the Pumas, to give you my point of view: there is a feeling of enormous injustice for what happened, because the bar is high for some and low for others. their publications, it is clear that they were wrong, that they were wrong, and that no matter what time in life they did it. Of course they were wrong.
It is also true that they apologized, that they acknowledged their mistake, and made their defense. The UAR itself lifted the sanction because they understood that they had rushed, and that they were sponsoring an injustice.
Pablo Matera, captain of Los Pumas.
I feel that they were victims of violent persecution, at the wrong time, just because there was a sector that considered that the tribute to Maradona had been poor: The Pumas were victims of "let's go for everything", they used them as examples of evil; trying to deepen the division of Argentines through a class concept, with concepts from the nineteenth century.
There are voices and official media that were behind this persecution, who do not care about people's lives, they only use the tools to generate damage and thus obtain some political profit.
Meanwhile, there is a government that takes advantage of the duel to appoint judges, advance in the cleaning of personal cases, remove co-participation, change the system of appointment of the Attorney.
We are going to fight. I will continue giving it, because with me the Argentina of "everything goes" does not go. Moral Justice was extreme; It is necessary to review the violence of words and actions, because what happened with the Pumas can happen to anyone, and nobody deserves such cruel public derision.