12/09/2020 9:55
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/09/2020 11:31 AM
The Buenos Aires Minister of Security, Sergio Berni, was fully involved in the debate on the loss of accountability after the crime of a man in Retiro at the hands of a 15-year-old boy who murdered him to steal his bicycle and rekindled the differences with the Minister Sabina Frederic, whom he accused of "speaking because he has no territorial responsibility."
"In a country where institutions work, the age of accountability should not be lowered. Obviously, we are not a normal country.
In Argentina today I have no doubt that the age of accountability must be lowered,
but that does not mean that a 15-year-old boy has to be thrown into a prisoner warehouse, as prisons are today, ”Berni sentenced.
In dialogue with radio
Rivadavia
, the provincial official differentiated himself from Frederic, the person in charge of the National Security area, who hours before had asked "not to stigmatize and believe that all young people can become victimizers."
"There are some who always start by putting the cart ahead of the horse.
The difference between Frederic and us is that she does not have territorial responsibility
: we have the responsibility of what happens in our territory. The Minister of Security, as she has no territory to take care of You can sometimes have the luxury of saying things that many of us find it difficult to understand, ”said Berni.
The crime scene: Madero and San Martín avenues, a few meters from Villa 31. Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami
Asked about the minister's statements, Axel Kicillof's minister complained that
“the victim (of the crimes) is not a relative of these progressives who say these things,”
whom he accused of being “very liberal and very loose from body when it comes to justifying the unjustifiable ”.
"Those who are thinking backwards are those who have the responsibility for these things not to happen. I try to be consistent between what I say and do," he said.
Berni stated that "it is clear that the problem lies with the system, which has not been able to solve a problem that in any part of the world with reeducation, a working prison service and rapid justice."
And he stressed that "one of the problems is that (in Argentina) there is no
Juvenile Penal Law
", a project promoted by the Government of Mauricio Macri in 2019 that was never discussed in Congress.
The crime of Retirement
The incident occurred around 8:20 this Tuesday at the intersection of San Martín streets and Madero avenue, when the victim,
Dmitri Amiryan (37)
, an Armenian chiropractor who lived in Buenos Aires 20 years ago and had a domicile in Núñez, was circulating cycling with a friend.
Although at first the sources mentioned three criminals, "two of whom had fled to Barrio 31," they later clarified that when Amiryan distanced himself from his friend, he
was approached by a single assailant who wanted to steal his bicycle
.
For reasons that are still being investigated, the offender fired a shot that entered him from the bottom up through the neck area and also affected his face.
A City Police officer who was standing a block away pursued and managed to arrest the alleged perpetrator, a 15-year-old teenager, who was kidnapped among his belongings with a
.32 caliber revolver
.
The minor arrested had at least four prior robbery records.
In the place, the victim's "CTM" brand bicycle was thrown, a high-end vehicle that can cost between 60,000 and 80,000 pesos in the market.
The case is investigated by the Communal Police Station 1A of the City Police and the National Juvenile Court 4 intervenes, in charge of Judge Rodolfo Cilleruelo.
According to reports, the adolescent, who is unimpeachable due to his age, is of Argentine nationality and resides in Barrio 31.
He had already been delayed in at least four other opportunities during the year in robbery cases.
The arrests occurred on March 20, September 11, September 18, and November 8.
All were crimes against property and the cases were in the hands of the judges of the National Juvenile Courts N ° 2 and N ° 6.
The adolescent was transferred to the Admission and Referral Center (former Inchausti Institute), in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Balvanera.
Being less than 16 years old, he is unimpeachable, although given the seriousness of the new homicide case, he could be provisionally ordered a security measure.
JPE
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