“When they realized that we had entered from behind, they beat us with sticks, they beat us with horses, with whips, with sticks, with stones, on the ground”, recounted the Parlasur deputy Gaston Harispeone of the protesters who was injured yesterday along with other people when they accessed an alternative path to the Tacuifí road, access blocked by residents and defenders of the English magnate Joe Lewis.
Harispe is general secretary of the Octobers Movement and congressman of the PJ in La Plata, and together with 7 other people, yesterday entered the Tacuifí road from the side, through an 18-kilometre mountain pathwhich they carried out partly by truck and partly on foot.
So the group of 8 people, 5 men and 3 women, surprised from behind the defenders of the “privacy” of the Tacuifí road who were stationed with horses and sticks to one side of the iron fence. On the other side was a large group of protesters, just like at two previous protests.
Harispe recounted what happened in dialogue with RN Radio where he stated “Tacuifí is a public road that is blocked by the hit groups of Lewis, for telling them in some way, they blocked the access”.
“Walking we reached Tacuifí from behind where these violent groups exercise control of the territory”, indicated the deputy of Parlasur who reported that when they were observed by the residents “They are surprised and violently rebuke us. They demand that we go out on the high mountain path that we had taken, which is a path of 18 kilometers, it was late and we asked to leave through the gate of the Tacuifí road, a public road that they have blocked under the orders of Lewis”, said Harispe who stressed the public character of the vehicular path that the residents defend as “private”.
The deputy estimated that there 50 people on horseback and 50 on foot who went to attack the group of protesters. “They beat us 200 meters”he affirmed and said that they withdrew towards the back, in the opposite direction of the gate that was closed, and took refuge next to some trees to get away from the attackers.
Minutes later, a van from one of the villagers with the surname Puchywith 6 policemen, most of them women, unarmed, who They supposedly come to help them, but in a private vehicle. Also in that truck were some of the aggressors who are trying to continue with their mission, according to Harispe.
He explained that according to the statements of the Police, They were not in a provincial force vehicle because they might not enter the Tacuifí road either. and they were stationed outside.
“The ambulance saved us when it arrived, he took three out first, for insurance reasons they mightn’t keep taking all of us out. Later when another ambulance returns, already with more determination because They see that if they didn’t get us out they were going to beat us up, on one last trip they took all 5 of us out”, recounted Harispe who valued the work of the staff of the El Foyel health center as an act of “solidarity” who “played it by getting us out of the place”.
Regarding the injured, Harispe said that one of the women who entered the group was under observation in the hospital, another person with bruises and was discharged last night, and another man was transferred to Bariloche.
“They hit me with something, they turned me around and made me lose my images for a moment, I was left on the floorwhen I get up I’m full of horses around me,” said the official who said that due to his status as a Parlasur deputy he filed a complaint in the Bariloche federal court, in addition to the group complaint that was filed with the El Bolsón prosecutor’s office, which It depends on the provincial court.
He opined that “the violence and the exercise of power by Lewis over the protesters is notorious” and remarked that beyond the fact that the resident Puchy presents himself as the leader of the blockade of the Tacuifí road, “they have seized the entire territory, the summit, of Tacuifí, of all the roads that surround Lago Escondido because Lewis must pay or demand or encourage him so that his illegal and illegitimate block of land remains like this”.
Listen to Parlasur MP Gatón Harispe in “Who said summer”, by RÍO NEGRO RADIO.
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