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LIVE: Aníbal Fernández defends himself against criticism for the drug advance and said that in Rosario there are more than 4,000 agents of the federal forces

2023-03-09T18:34:42.029Z


The Minister of Security is questioned by a broad sector of the opposition for the measures applied to stop the wave of violence in Santa Fe.


In the midst of the commotion over the increase in drug violence in Rosario and after pressure from the opposition and the Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández,

responds

this Tuesday before the Internal Security Commission of Deputies on the policies that are being implemented in the city of Santa Fe before the strong advance of organized crime.

In this context, the official stated that there are 4,093 agents of the 4 security forces located in the city of Rosario, out of the 5,834 agents, in total, that are in the province of Santa Fe.

The opposition pointed to the drop in resources towards the forces.

"There is a very concrete fact: the participation of the National Gendarmerie in 2019 is 4.8 of the execution, reaching 1.3% in 2023. If we take all the forces, the total average went from 2.4 to 1.2%," said the radical deputy Juan Martin.

Faced with the insistent opposition claims, Fernández pointed to the governors of the province of Santa Fe: "I remind you that in 2013 they shot at the house of the (socialist) governor Antonio Bonfatti, did the problems start that day? No, they were there a long time ago. That is what we It has to show that the headache has been around for a long time and one can penetrate as long as the province requires it. There is no super capacity of the national state getting into the provinces and making decisions about what they have to do with their police power ".

In turn, the Socialist deputy, Enrique Estevez, replied: "In the 4 years that Bonfatti was governor, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner did not receive him even once."

In turn, he insisted that "it is an objective fact of reality that Santa Fe is last in the ranking of sending resources to all jurisdictions."

At the start of his presentation, Fernández defended the tasks carried out in terms of security in Rosario.

He pointed out that since he took office in September 2021, he recalled that after meeting with Governor Omar Perotti, he sent 575 Gendarmerie troops, "people with a lot of experience."

He also pointed out that on a budget of $17,631 million, the 2022 investment for Rosario came to be above $8,000.

"The effort is on display," he said.

The official also reported a drop in the homicide rate in Rosario, which went from 4.6 in 2021 to 4.3 last year.

"Practically a European rate," he added, to compare it with the rate in Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay and the United States.

He also highlighted that there was a 36.4% increase in arrests for drug trafficking and cocaine seizures grew 309%.

opposition pressure

The presence of Fernández had been agreed last Tuesday during a special session that was held to discuss the pension moratorium, between the bloc of deputies of the Frente de Todos (FdT) and Juntos por el Cambio (JxC), after a request for

interpellation Presented

by Juan Martin (UCR - Santa Fe).

Although the ruling party rejected the request for interpellation of Fernández, it was agreed with the opposition that the minister attend to present before the area commission, chaired by the pro-government deputy Ramiro Gutiérrez.

The minister's presentation comes amid strong criticism of the government's policy to combat drug trafficking.

Fernández was even in Rosario this Wednesday in order to receive the troops that reinforce the Unified Command of the Federal Forces.

It was after the attack on a supermarket belonging to the family of Antonela Roccuzzo with a mafia message addressed to Lionel Messi that President Alberto Fernández decided to announce the dispatch of gendarmes and members of the Federal Police, for a total of 1,400 new agents, who will join the 4,000 who are in Rosario.

The Minister of Security will also arrive in Congress after the plenary session of the Justice and Criminal Legislation commissions, in which an opinion was issued on the project to strengthen the justice of Santa Fe, which aims to implement the accusatory system in order to advance more speed in drug trafficking cases.

The project designed by the deputy of the FdT Roberto Mirabella, and supported by the deputies from Santa Fe, seeks to create 27 federal prosecutor's offices, 15 of them in Rosario;

nine defense offices and six federal courts, as well as six positions of federal criminal judge with review functions, in order to be able to move more quickly with criminal cases, in a context of sharp increase in homicides and drug trafficking.

In order for these modifications to come into operation, the bicameral Commission for the Implementation of the Federal Criminal Procedure Code must also be formed, which Cristina Kirchner keeps frozen by not appointing the representatives of the Senate, since the deputies were appointed.

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