The presidential candidate of the PRO Patricia Bullrich supported on Tuesday the actions of the police officer who killed the motorcycle with four shots in the back in Moreno and considered that "the Police must have the necessary support."
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The policeman acted in flagrante delicto. However, today he is detained. If it had been the other way around, the motorcycle would be free," Bullrich said in a post on his Twitter account.
Less than 48 hours after the episode, the former Minister of Security of the Nation said: "The Police must have the necessary support to be able to fulfill their role: to take care of the citizens."
In the publication made by the leader of the PRO to support the police force, Patricia Bullrich shared the images of the robbery that were recorded by a municipal security camera.
The policeman, who was in plain clothes at the time of the incident, was traveling with his girlfriend on the motorcycle when two motorcycles stopped him to rob him in front of a "safe stop" of collectives, in La Reja, Moreno's party.
The sequence was filmed by a security camera with a blunt sharpness. It all ended with one of the assailants dead and the officer arrested.
The incident occurred on Sunday at 20.32, at the corner of Lugones and Payró streets, where the victims were riding a motorcycle. At that moment, another similar vehicle was put at par and one of the two criminals threatened them with a weapon, which was later established to be two soldier pipes.
The couple got off the motorcycle and the policeman, who was in civilian clothes, waited for the thief to get on and then shot him five times in the back.
The motorcycle fell dead a few meters away, with four bullets. Although he had an ID card on him, it was found that it was not his. The family provided his identity to the investigators (surnamed Carbonel), although they were still waiting for the experts to confirm it and establish if he had a criminal record. His accomplice managed to escape.
The case was handled by prosecutor Gabriel López, of the Functional Unit of Instruction (UFI) 8 of Moreno-General Rodríguez.
Meanwhile, this is not the first time that Patricia Bullrich expresses her support for the actions of a police officer. During the government of Mauricio Macri, the then Minister of Security of the Nation defended the policeman Luis Chocobar, who in December 2017 killed a criminal in the back.
The thief had stolen a camera and stabbed an American tourist in La Boca. On that occasion, Bullrich sought to position Chocobar as the hero who had defended the life of the American citizen.
"He acted like a cop, fine. Are we going to give perpetual life to those who defended a citizen?" said Bullrich at the time during a journalistic dialogue.
When asked if citizens should be armed to defend themselves from these situations, Bullrich issued a blunt response: "He who wants to be armed should walk armed and he who does not want to be armed should not be armed."
"Argentina is a free country. We prefer that people are not armed," he concluded.
Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro: "We must stop taking insecurity as something that is part of the campaigns"
The Minister of the Interior of the Nation, Eduardo "Wado" de Pedro, referred to the facts of insecurity and considered that we must "think about the values we have as a society."
"There is a level of discursive violence, of organized crime, drug trafficking entered many areas of Argentina. It seems to me that there is a lot of noise, a lot of politicization, this is used to make a difference between one sector or another," the national official questioned.
In a dialogue with America TV, the leader of the Frente de Todos said: "It is part of the problems that are used in the media to campaign and when we have to govern nothing is done."
"There is a level of violence thatmay, there is a contempt for life, there are levels of greater marginality and also levels of corruption in the security forces, in sectors of the Judiciary. It seems to me that if we seriously want to solve the issue of insecurity in Argentina, we must stop taking it as something that is part of the campaigns, something so frivolous," he emphasized.
De Pedro acknowledged that "there are very low salaries in the security forces and there is a lot of money in the subject to control."
"One thing is what they say and another what they do. I say that it is an issue that has to do with the long term, because it is a structural problem of Argentina, which needs fundamental reforms that will take time. And another one comes and says 'I'm going to solve it like this and like this', those magical measures that they have been telling us to solve security issues do not work, "he said.
Finally, he asked for "a very firm hand with crime, with organized crime, a very firm hand with any of the officials who have to do with any of the areas that have to do with the fight against crime."
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