After the attack on Sergio Berni, at midnight on Wednesday they arrested two bus drivers.
They are not from line 620, to which Daniel Barrientos (55) belonged, the driver murdered by whom the protest in which the minister was beaten was held.
The defendants provide service on lines 622 and 378, of the Almafuerte company, in La Matanza.
They are
Jorge Oscar Galiano and Jorge Ezequiel Zerda
.
Both were arrested in the western area of the Buenos Aires suburbs.
As
Clarín
was able to find out , Galiano is 49 years old and has worked for Almafuerte since 1997. Meanwhile, Zerda is 32 and has been an employee of that firm since 2013.
Antonio Petkovsek, a 620 delegate, told this newspaper that they are in permanent assembly and with
service interrupted
until further notice to demand the release of the drivers.
“They had already been notified, they could summon them to testify and that's it.
It was not necessary that they were going to arrest them at night, with that amount of troops, to make a search, to break down doors.
They are not criminals, they are workers
and at no time did they resist,” says Petkovsek.
And he adds: "They dealt with the bus drivers but they do nothing with the murderers of Barrientos, our partner."
Another of Berni's attackers.
Photo Maxi Failla.
Strike in repudiation of the arrests
The drivers of the Almafuerte company, along with those of the 620 and 382, which are from the Nuevo Ideal firm, not only suspended the service but this Wednesday morning they carry out
a cut in Route 3, kilometer 23.
The investigation is in charge of the prosecutor Carlos Fel Rolero Santurian and the judge Luisa María Escrich (Criminal, Misdemeanor and Misdemeanor Court No. 20), both from the City of Buenos Aires, jurisdiction where the events occurred.
Both were transferred to the headquarters of the Prosecutor's Office, located at 1333 Paseo Colón Avenue, 7th floor of the Buenos Aires district.
Two bus drivers were arrested in the Conurbano as part of the investigation into the assault on Sergio Berni.
They will be investigated on Friday and, after giving a statement, they will regain their freedom, since the crime for which they are accused is releaseable.
Raids were also carried out in the bus companies where the detainees work, to kidnap their personal files.
In these procedures, they seized files and digital material from all the workers on the bus lines.
In this way, they will verify all this information with the videos of the beating of the minister, in search of more responsible.
Therefore, they do not rule out that there are new detainees.
The attack on Sergio Berni, Photo Maxi Failla.
The people who beat the head of the Buenos Aires Security portfolio were easily identified, not only by the security cameras in the area, but also by the images captured by the media.
Although Berni had initially said publicly that he was not going to make any judicial presentation against his attackers, the government of Axel Kicillof denounced the attack before the Federal Court on Tuesday.
EMJ
look also
The anger of the companions of the bus drivers arrested: "Berni is doing a whole circus"
"Put down your weapons, I'm a bus driver", this was the arrest of one of those accused of beating Sergio Berni