Sabina Frederic assured that 'the homicide rate grew more in the city of Buenos Aires than in Santa Fe'

09/08/2021 12:11

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Updated 09/08/2021 14:01

The Minister of Security of the Nation, Sabina Frederic, got into the final stretch of the campaign for the PASO next Sunday and pointed against the candidate for Buenos Aires deputy de Juntos, Diego Santilli, whom she

questioned about his performance at the helm of the Security in the City portfolio

.

"Santilli cannot account for his management, in the City there was a

22% increase in the homicide rate in 2020.

The crime rates fell in 2020 because they fell throughout the country. But in 2020 in the province did not increase the homicide rate and in the City it grew 22% ", questioned Frederic in an interview with

Radio 10

.

The minister redoubled the bet by noting that "

the homicide rate in the City grew more than in Santa Fe

", although she did not give total numbers on the number of violent crimes in each district. 

"They cannot talk about security in the City because

the worst crime grew exponentially,

" insisted Frederic, who added María Eugenia Vidal in his questions.

Minister Sabina Frederic with Santa Fe Governor Omar Perotti and Minister Marcelo Saín.

Frederic's statement and the comparison with Santa Fe comes in the midst of a

sustained wave of homicides in Rosario

, where the violence does not stop and six violent deaths were recorded in 20 hours.

The data on insecurity in the City of Buenos Aires during 2020, amid the restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, show a

decrease of almost 60% in robberies when compared to 2008

, the year in which it had been registered the crime record.

However, despite the quarantine, murders rose in relation to 2019.

The data in the City indicate that there were

124 homicides in 2020, against 102 in 2019

and 139 in 2018;

while 2014 was the year with the highest record of murders, with 197.

In the province of Santa Fe, according to data from the Public Safety Observatory, deaths from murders in 2020

surpassed those that occurred in road accidents for the first time in the last decade

.

This as a consequence of a marked drop in accidents due to circulatory restrictions.

Highly harmful violence, for its part, remained at the rates of recent years, although in 2020 there were 38 more intentional homicides than in 2019. There were

375 deaths from murders throughout the province

.

Frederic's statement ignites controversy amid the crime wave in Rosario.

The minister had been at the center of the scene when days ago she minimized the insecurity in the Buenos Aires suburbs by saying that Switzerland "

is quieter [than the GBA], but more boring

."

It was in an interview with radio

Miter

, when he referred to an act of insecurity in Ituzaingó in which a 19-year-old thief of Chilean nationality and a 69-year-old retiree had died. 

It was "frightening"

, he said, adding that "nobody wants to let that happen. "

The phrase of the controversy was launched by the minister when they asked her if it was necessary to emigrate from the country to stop feeling fear or suffering acts of insecurity.

"Switzerland is calmer, but more boring," he

answered about it.

What was intended to be humorous quickly generated a

great deal of criticism

.

"Does it seem funny to you that someone who goes out to work waits for the group with fear of being assaulted? Or that the car has to be turned around for fear of an entrance?", The candidate for deputy Florencio Randazzo questioned her on Twitter.

And he ended harshly: "Because this is the reality of those of us who live in the suburbs.

If you live in a thermos, at least be silent

."

The former Minister of National Security during the macrismo, Patricia Bullrich, also came out to the crossing.

"

We are governed by a political caste that laughs in our faces

. That has no idea of ​​the level of insecurity that exists in many localities, in which our Forces leave their lives. As Sabina Frederic stated without blushing: 'Switzerland is calmer, but more boring, '"he said.

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