Fifteen days after his license ends at the Ministry of Justice and City Security,
Marcelo D'Alessandro
will not rejoin the leadership of the area and his place will be taken by Eugenio Burzaco, former Secretary of National Security.
According to sources that respond to Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, the head of government has already made the decision, although some details remain.
In Larreta's environment they say that even Burzaco could assume this Thursday, the day that the National Soccer Team plays at the Monumental against Panama, an operation of maximum tension.
From the Uspallata headquarters they indicated that "conversations are still lacking but it is clearly an alternative."
Those conversations refer to a talk between Larreta and D'Alessandro.
They already had a meeting, but they will meet again on Wednesday before announcing the decision.
Ten days ago,
Larreta spoke about D'Alessandro's situation in a radio interview
: "Marcelo's license expires at the end of the month and I'm going to talk to him to see if he comes back. Last year we had the lowest levels of insecurity in history and Marcelo was one of those responsible for that," he said.
Buenos Aires sources maintain that
they failed to "convince" D'Alessandro to continue in office.
D'Alessandro took leave three months ago after
a series of alleged chats were released that were obtained after a hack on his cell phone.
Several complaints were filed for these chats, but the Justice determined that these alleged intercepted communications cannot be used as evidence in any judicial file since they were the product of a hack.
In addition, the Justice held that after the intervention, the messages could
have been adulterated.
A report from the Judicial Investigation Corps, which reports to the City Public Prosecutor's Office, corroborated this judicial thesis and
determined that once a phone message is hacked, it can be modified.
Burzaco's arrival began to take shape a few weeks ago.
after
an escalation of robberies and violence in the City that included the murder of a Venezuelan in Palermo after an attempted robbery of a cell phone and the shooting in Plaza Constitución.
Also
street closures and an eviction operation against Buenos Aires residents who were protesting the repeated power cuts on the Dellepiane highway, among other sources of tension.
Burzaco already had two passes through the security area that ended with early departures
.
The first was in the City when Guillermo Montenegro -current mayor of Mar Del Plata- was minister of the area during the Buenos Aires management of Mauricio Macri.
Burzaco was in charge of the Metropolitan Police but Montenegro kicked him out.
They had a strained relationship and Burzaco wanted to take over for Montenegro.
His second experience was when Patricia Bullrich took over as National Security Minister, but it didn't end well either.
Burzaco was the Secretary of Security - in fact the number two in the area - but he did not have the confidence of Bullrich who first created an area that overlapped him to remove tasks and then displaced him.
In those days, Burzaco's brother, Alejandro, was being investigated for his role in FIFA Gate, which included paying bribes.
On January 18, Alejandro Burzaco confessed to having bribed "the group of six from Conmebol" with 32 million dollars, including Nicolás Leoz and Julio Grondona.
In recent months, Burzaco flirted with a possible candidacy for mayor in Bariloche, a city to which he had moved to put together a provincial proposal in Río Negro from the PRO.
Those plans, for the moment, seem to be on standby due to his imminent appointment to Larreta's cabinet.
