The Minister of Security,
Patricia Bullrich
, referred this Thursday to the crimes of two taxi drivers in Rosario and attributed it to a "typical revenge" of drug trafficking hitmen, due to the measures they are carrying out in the federal and provincial prisons of the city.
"It is typical revenge for what happened in the federal and provincial prisons. Yesterday we received 20 habeas corpus from high-risk prisoners trying to get us to lift the regime. They do anything to get us to lift the regime because they are totally separated and cannot They can continue committing crimes," he said in a conversation with the press.
One day after the homicide of Héctor Figueroa, also recorded in the south of the city, Diego Alejandro Celentano (32) was found around 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the front of his vehicle, with a gunshot wound to the head.
The taxi service in the city, which had been reestablished after noon, was interrupted again in the first minutes of this Thursday.
“Stop killing us,” they demanded.
The head of the Chamber of Taxi License Holders, José Iantosca, stated that the drivers are being used as "decoys" in the midst of the government's fight with the drug groups that operate in Rosario.
"We are easy to hunt. This already looks like terrorist attacks. Today you have to be suicidal to go out to work at night," he said in statements to LT8.
"There are still hitmen on the loose, but there will be fewer every day
," Bullrich promised during his time at Expoagro, in San Nicolás.
Taxi drivers protest in front of the Government headquarters of Santa Fe. Photo: JUAN JOSE GARCIA.
Days ago, a shooting attack occurred against two buses transporting 100 members of the Santa Fe Penitentiary Service, prompting two surprise searches in Penitentiary Unit No. 11, known as Piñero Penitentiary, an institution that houses renowned prisoners among drug gangs. from the city of Rosario.
In this regard, Bullrich said that these attacks on the buses of the Santa Fe Penitentiary Service "generated an immediate response" from the province's Ministry of Security.
The reference is to the procedures, whose images released to the press recall those of the prisons of El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele carries out a strong policy of control in the penitentiary establishments of his country, were carried out by Special Tactical Groups.
The seized prisoners belong to Fran Riquelme's drug gang.
According to the provincial government, their cell phones were seized and were already placed at the disposal of the Justice Department for examination.