Some twenty hours after the arrest of two drivers accused of assaulting him,
Sergio Berni
is meeting with delegates of the bus drivers who are protesting the arrest of two accused of assaulting the Minister of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires.
"I'm here to finish what we started,"
said the Buenos Aires official succinctly at his entrance to the monitoring center where the drivers' representatives were waiting for him.
"It is a cause that
the prosecutor acted ex officio
. Beyond two people, we have identified a few more," said Berni, after 7:00 p.m. read".
Then he went up some stairs and entered the glass room where, with his back to the TV cameras that recorded the scene, he talked with the union representatives.
The drivers of 16 bus lines in the West Zone of Greater Buenos Aires hold a strike to protest the arrests and to demand security improvements.
The measure of force is for an indefinite period: they assure that the measure of force will only end when Jorge Galiano and Jorge Zerda -the detainees- are released.
"The metrobus stops have no light, we see the motorcycles get in and rob people. People also notify you if they are stealing," said one of the spokesmen for the drivers who concentrated on Isidro Casanova.
Minutes before the meeting at Puente 12 will begin, he said what his expectations are: "We already had meetings. He promised the same as always: security, cameras, cabins. Pro nothing is fulfilled. We believe that the same will not happen, because now There are already three deaths."
Sergio Berni in a meeting with delegates of bus drivers in Puente 12. Capture A24
The last of the drivers killed was Daniel Barrientos, on Monday morning.
After that crime, his companions demonstrated in General Paz.
It was there, during a visit to the protest, that Berni was attacked by some of the protesters.
Two of them were detained in raids carried out on Wednesday night.
Galiano and Zerda were arrested in proceedings that took place in Lomas del Mirador and in Gregorio de Laferrere.
One of the raids was recorded on video.
The images went viral and produced the rejection of broad sectors of the political spectrum, including Cristina Kirchner.
The arrest is seen and the man imploring them to "put down your guns."
"They are confused... Berni! Slowly, I am not a malandra, I am a bus driver," exclaims the detainee.
What Sergio Berni said after the attack
In the media appearances after the attack he received at the demonstration against General Paz, the Minister of Security tried to establish that he was "ambushed."
The Minister of Security of the Province was attacked with blows and stones.
He suffered major injuries.
Photo Maxi Failla
"When you see the faces, you smell it, I saw that it was not, it was not... it was people who came to provoke," he said on the official signal C5N, just hours after the riots on Monday and the death of Barrientos that occurred that early morning
That same night, he assured A24: "I don't know if they didn't throw a dead man at us."
This was manifested in the line that the Buenos Aires ruling party remarked.
Even this Thursday morning, while a strike of 8 bus lines was taking place in the West Zone of the GBA, Carlos Bianco -governor Axel Kicillof's right-hand man- spoke of "infiltrators".
"When Berni arrived, without saying a word, a group pounced on him that we will have to see who the group is, what interests they respond to, if it is an inmate of the union, if they are infiltrated. There is information that is being analyzed," he said. the head of advisors to the government of the Province of Buenos Aires.
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