They prevent the presidential aide from boarding a plane for carrying a weapon without registration

02/19/2021 8:54 PM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 02/19/2021 8:59 PM

The

presidential aide Reta Diego Bravo

could not board the flight that would

take him to Mexico, to accompany President Alberto Fernández on his tour of the Aztec country.

It happens that when he was about to board, when passing his luggage through the scanner of the luggage yard, agents of the Airport Security Police (PSA) discovered that he was

carrying an undeclared weapon

, hidden in a double bottom of the suitcase that he dispatched for the hold. of the airplane.

Judicial sources indicated to

Clarín

that the vice-commodore did not have any documentation of the 22 caliber pistol that he carried in his luggage.

Some reports indicated that he had stated that he belonged to the father.

In accordance with the protocol that the PSA must follow in these cases, a record is drawn up and the court on duty is notified.

In this case he fell in the federal criminal and correctional court number 2 of Lomas de Zamora, in charge of Juan Pablo Auge and his secretary Augusto Peloso.

Vice Commodore Reta is a member of the Air Force and was supposed to board Aeromexico's AM29 plane.

But around 10 p.m. the agents stopped him and delayed him.

The member of the Air Force had to board the Aeroméxico plane AM29, which took off on Thursday at 10:16 p.m.

The aide-de-camp

was charged under the title page, "illegal possession of a weapon

.

"

And he went home while the case progresses and justice determines the existence or not of a crime.

In military sources it was striking that he had a hidden weapon.

Although the hostesses are not armed, they can request authorization for "security reasons" to carry a weapon.

The primary responsibility of each military aide (one for each Armed Forces) is to exercise the immediate security of the President of the Nation and assist him in all official functions, giving him immediate collaboration in them.

Vice Commodore Diego Bravo Reta officially assumed as aide-de-camp of the Argentine Air Force on December 16, 2019.

A fighter-bomber pilot, the officer entered the Military Aviation School in February 1993. He was awarded a scholarship to the Kingdom of Spain to complete his specialization and between 2000 and 2010 he held different operational positions in the VI Air Brigade of Tandil until he became chief Squadron, instructor and inspector of the Mirage III EA weapons system.

In 2014 he served as advisor and flight instructor of the K-8 “KARAKORUM” system in Group 34 of the Bolivian Air Force with headquarters in the city of Cochabamba and between 2015 and 2016 he was head of the Mirage and IA Squadron. -63 Pampa.

In his last position he was appointed Liaison Officer before the System of Cooperation of the American Air Forces (SICOFAA).

The primary responsibility of each military aide (one for each Armed Forces) is to exercise the immediate security of the President of the Nation and assist him in all official functions, giving him immediate collaboration in them.