Reverse march of Axel Kicillof with the checkpoints at the accesses to the Province

05/07/2021 10:45 PM

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Updated 05/07/2021 10:52 PM

The government of Axel Kicillof confirmed this Friday night that it does not plan to plant checkpoints this Saturday at the accesses from the City of Buenos Aires to the Province.

It was a

double setback

. In principle, the Buenos Aires governor reversed the decision he had taken last Saturday, when the provincial police cut several lanes of the West access, the Panamericana and other avenues that connect the two districts to take the temperature and control the documentation of motorists, which which caused traffic jams and delays of up to six hours.

But in addition, the definition

contradicted the statements

made a few hours before by the Buenos Aires Minister of Government, María Teresa García, when she said that this Saturday they 

would re-install sanitary controls

"in all accesses" to the Province from the Federal Capital, despite of the criticism for traffic chaos that was generated last weekend by the checkpoints.

Health checks carried out last Saturday.

Photo Guillermo Rodríguez Adami

"Tomorrow (for today) there will be controls at all entrances, they will follow the controls as they are in the Federal Capital.

Let's hope that there is also

citizen awareness

that we are not here to

throw butter on the roof,

”García had said in the morning.

Last week, motorists who wanted to go from the Federal Capital to the Province of Buenos Aires ran into checkpoints set up by the Buenos Aires Police on bridges, highways and accesses where they took the temperature of the occupants of each vehicle.

The measure caused crowds,

lines of several kilometers on the highways

and in General Paz and delays of hours to be able to cross.

Speaking to 

El Uncover Radio

, the Buenos Aires official stressed: "What happens is that the massive output was complicated when the Province played the role required of it."

In this context, the provincial official stressed that "the ideal is for people to go out as little as possible if it is not essential personnel, if they do not have any emergency activity", and expanded: "I understand that there is sun on weekends, it is nice , that we are tired and that we would like to go eat a barbecue to the other side of the world ”.

Reverse

This Saturday night, Buenos Aires government sources indicated that the policy will be to maintain traffic controls during the hours that are restricted by a presidential decree,

from 8:00

p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

the next day

.

The Buenos Aires government had arranged health checks on motorists on the Panamericana, the West Access and the Riccheri highway last Saturday, which caused

delays of up to six hours

.

The operation, which was in charge of the Buenos Aires police, consisted of vehicle checkpoints at the entrance to the Pan-American Highway to the north, on the Western Highway, the Riccheri Highway to the south and on the Pueyrredón Bridge.

At checkpoints

not COVID cases were detected

, or at the least not officially reported, and if identified people with APB.

The operation generated complaints from the occupants of the vehicles, who said that their temperatures were taken at the checkpoints, and in some cases they were asked to

apply CuidAR

with the respective circulation permits, despite the restrictions of the DNU that signed the President Alberto Fernández prohibit transit in the AMBA exclusively between 8 and 6.

Complaint

In the last hours a

complaint

was filed

against Governor Kicillof

and his Security Minister, Sergio Berni, for the controls last weekend.

The criminal accusation was made by the Asociación Civil Bases Republicanas for the crime of "

abuse of authority

.

"

"These alleged controls, which began last weekend in an unjustified manner and without any type of coordination or prior notice, not only cause significant delays and discomfort in all people but also

violate the right to free movement,

" said the president of the organization, Jimena de la Torre.

And he added: "Many of those who suffered retentions - two or three hours in some cases - are essential workers, such as doctors or nurses, who travel daily from one jurisdiction to another to get to their places of work."

“The authorities of the Province have already announced that this weekend there will be new controls, history is going to repeat itself, and we have to put a brake on it.

It was shown that these controls are useless and that they are

totally abusive

, since the current circulation restriction schedule is between 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. the next day ”, he warned.

The criminal complaint was presented by the directors of Bases Republicanas and fell to Federal Court No. 2 of San Isidro.

LM