03/16/2021 21:32
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/16/2021 9:32 PM
National deputies of the UCR led by Alfredo Cornejo and Mario Negri, along with Senator Luis Naidenoff, denounced that the Formosa police
detained them in a detachment
awaiting the result of the coronavirus test, although they assured that they had already received it. carried out before with a negative result: "They do not allow us free movement," they expressed.
The deputies arrived in Formosa on Tuesday afternoon to participate in the protests against the quarantine and the management of Governor Gildo Insfrán.
Because of the police harassment, Negri told the press that they will denounce the governor.
According to social networks, as soon as they entered Formosa territory the police guarded them to the place where they had to do the swabbing: "They don't want to take care of us, they want to control us #FormosaLibre," said Cornejo, who published a video of the moment they were accompanied by the police force.
The Insfrán Police stopped us on National Route 11 and they won't let us get to Clorinda.
They do not respect our parliamentary privileges that guarantee free movement throughout the country.
Insfrán must understand that Formosa is not another Nation, it is part of Argentina.
pic.twitter.com/GwTPaOa0Jj
- Mario Raúl Negri (@marioraulnegri) March 16, 2021
Three hours later the former governor of Mendoza uploaded a video on Twitter where he said that despite having a negative PCR that had been carried out in another jurisdiction, they were still in the police station.
With double PCR testing, we are together with national deputies on Route 11 70km from #Clorinda but, contrary to all national regulations and the national Constitution itself, they do not allow us to continue because the government of Formosa does not give us the results.
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- Luis Naidenoff (@luisnaidenoff) March 16, 2021
"The police have an order not to let us pass Clorinda. The act was at 8:30 p.m., they knew about that time and that is why they are holding us. They have delayed us since we arrived and what they are doing is illegal," he said.
News in development.
