Almost a day after the arrest of the two bus drivers who attacked the Buenos Aires Security Minister,
Sergio Berni
, in the protests for the murder of the driver of line 620 of La Matanza, Daniel Barrientos,
Cristina Kirchner criticized the operation
in which they apprehended workers, compared it to the arrest of drug traffickers and also to the attack against them.
"
I have just seen
on television the police operation where one of the bus drivers who savagely attacked the PBA Security Minister was arrested," Cristina Kirchner posted after 6 pm on Thursday, almost twenty hours after the event.
"They tell me that it was a joint operation of the CABA police with the Buenos Aires police. Was
the magnitude of the operation and the treatment given to the detainee necessary
, as if it were an attempt to apprehend a drug trafficker in his bunker?" added Cristina Kirhcner.
Thus, the vice president referred to the arrests of Jorge Galiano (49) and Jorge Zerda (32), apprehended around midnight on Wednesday in Lomas del Mirador and Gregorio de Laferrere, within the La Matanza Party.
The police broadcast images of the large deployment of troops at the door of the house of one of them, who raised his hands and, without resisting, responded in surprise: "Put down your weapons,
what are you going to shoot me?
"
The operation provoked strong criticism from the opposition.
But in addition, drivers of 16 bus lines called for a strike that still affects the western zone of Greater Buenos Aires.
In this context, Cristina Kirchner compared the arrests with the attack against her: "Someone writes to me... verbatim: 'The drinker who wanted to kill CFK was treated better than a bus driver who gave Berni a pineapple.' They treated him better: the militants stopped him, not the police, and
I was lucky that Barrientos didn't have it, the bullet didn't come out
.
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