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02/10/2021 15:52
Clarín.com
Zonal
Updated 02/10/2021 18:14
400 x 4. That is the account that the
commuters of the Conurbano
assure that it must be done to calculate the true number of troops that Minister
Sergio Berni
wants to throw out of the Buenos Aires.
If consummated, it would represent
the largest purge
that a provincial government has made of its own police force: almost three times more than the 650 dismissals in remembered installments made by former Minister
León Arslanian
during 2004. It is true that at that time there were less than 50 thousand troops and now they number almost
90 thousand.
Until now, the regional superintendencies have sent the district chiefs a list of around
470
disaffected
police officers
, the vast majority assistant officers (the lowest in the ranks), although there are also sub-inspectors and second lieutenants.
It is not yet clear if in the list of 1,680 that Berni put together, there are also troops who will be
summed up.
Almost all of them
"actively participated, instigated or did not avoid"
the surprise protests that members of the force carried out in September, with tense demonstrations (among them at the door of the Quinta Presidencial de Olivos) and caravans of patrols with their sirens on in various parties. from Greater Buenos Aires.
9/9/20.
Protest of the Buenos Aires Police in Quinta Olivos.
Photo: Federico Imas - FTP CLARIN FIM_4.jpg Z Guest
Several of the Municipalities of the
North of the Suburban area
took the worst part: in Vicente López they have more than 50 police officers dismissed, which represents between 8 and 10% of all the troops that the Party adds between the Local Police and the Command of Patrols.
In San Isidro, the scythe hit about 25 Buenos Aires agents.
A slightly smaller number has Tigre and San Martín.
Police officers protest on September 9, 2020 in front of the Olivos Presidential Palace, in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
In Morón, San Fernando and Merlo there are only a handful of disaffected policemen.
Not so in
Lomas de Zamora
, which reaches almost a hundred.
Between Avellaneda and Esteban Echeverría there are about 60.
"This has nothing to do with what Arslanian did, who messed with heavy fish. He kicked out many of those who had been handling the dirty box of the Bonaerense for years. Until today he has to be in custody because They have it sworn in. Instead, Berni
messed
with the
kids
who had just graduated and who do not make ends meet. He is pruning the force from the
bottom up
. Without a doubt there were excesses in the protests last year, but take A decision like this, to try to defuse a possible strike, I don't think it is a very smart move, "says a Peronist communal chief who, although not noticeable, feels a special appreciation for the current minister of security.
Another mayor, also from the PJ, who returned from La Plata this Wednesday at noon after a meeting with Governor Axel Kicillof, acknowledged that the provincial leader was fond of the suit that allows him to
ignore
the rugged and many times unattainable problems that the Security and the performance of the Buenos Aires.
"In meetings, Berni is always overbearing and
constantly interrupts
Kicillof. He hardly lets him speak. And the governor never stops him. He lets his minister step on him because he is convinced that Berni's high profile and autonomy makes him run away to pay the political cost of insecurity with increasingly violent crimes and a Police that works angry, even with anger I would tell you, due to the issue of wage arrears and now with this dismissal ", he describes.
Those who know the minister best call "nonsense" the version that relates the fights that Berni usually has with officials of the National Government to an alleged intention of seeking to have him thrown out of office.
"
Berni loves to be where he is
. He loves to give orders and handle the police. He has that calling," they say.
Although they recognize that "obviously he would love to be the head of National Security but he also knows that this is impossible with Alberto Fernández, beyond his fanaticism with Cristina Kirchner, to whom he owes his autonomy as perhaps no other official holds" .
Among the communal chiefs they believe that
there is no going back
with this advance by Berni to send policemen to column by force before the signs of a new revolt.
"Kicillof hardly refers to the issue with us and the Minister is convinced that by pressing he will achieve submission. But this is another police. With other values on the command column. In the last protests they went to the Governor's house and in the door of the Quinta de Olivos there were cops playing the bass drum with their
regulation weapons on their waists,
"they warn.
MR