2023-08-23 20:35:00
An uneasy day was experienced this Tuesday, August 22, in commercial areas of the City of Buenos Aires, some points of the Buenos Aires suburbs and several provinces, agitated by rumors of looting of premises, WhatsApp chains that encourage robberies and early closing of shops.
These events were reported by users of social networks in the Buenos Aires neighborhoods of Once y Floreswhile videos of closures were disseminated in the Buenos Aires towns of San Miguel, Jose C. Paz y Hummock.
In the case of Flowers, merchants on Avellaneda Avenue lowered their blinds for the complaint via WhatsApp of looting in the commercial area. For this reason, personnel from the 7 C Neighborhood Police Station of the City Police were present at the scene. However, following verifying that it was a false alarm, the employees reopened the businesses.
After speaking of a state of siege, Patricia Bullrich charged once morest the Government: “Either they take the lead or it will be very difficult”
“The Monitoring Center reports that all the cameras in the vicinity of the intersection of Nazca and Avellaneda avenues were verified. No group of people was visualized carrying out an illicit“police sources informed Argentine News. During the operation, which lasted several minutes, there were moments of fear and tension until the City Police confirmed that the situation was under control.
In addition, a call to 911 was released that reported “Possible illegal acts in shops in a gallery on Avenida Pueyrredón at 100, in the Once commercial area.” “Given this, personnel from the Rapid Interventions Deployment (DIR), from the jurisdictional police station of the City Police, who verified that the activity in the area was normal,” they confirmed.
For the Government, there are groups “encouraging” looting attempts
Municipalities denied rumors of looting
Various municipalities echoed the rumors and came out to deny them. In this sense, Ariel Sujarchuk, mayor of Escobarreported through a statement that in the town of Buenos Aires “detected an organization of people with political militancy and a vocation to spread false news of alleged looting to businesses through WhatsApp chains with the aim of altering social peace and generating paranoia among the neighbors who are less attentive to the veracity or otherwise of the messages disseminated”.
According to the official, from the local Citizen Security and Prevention Secretariat they invited the people who disseminated these messages to make the complaint, but they refused to do so. “They also denied themselves, in a clear display that their objective was none other than to sow concern and fear among our community“, he stated.
“The Municipality has all its prevention tools to anticipate these chains promoted by sectors that bet on chaos to gain some political revenue. They are at the antipodes of our way of managing, since from the first day of government we have built an Escobar that grows in order and peace from the progress of our businesses, industries, and entrepreneurs,” he concluded.
They created a “looting map” to check the cases reported throughout the country
Another Buenos Aires district that came out to deny the looting was Hummock. Through a statement, from the commune directed by Lucas Ghi, they alerted regarding the false news, clarifying that “there has not been any act of violence in the streets of Morón, nor was there any particular movement that deserved any special measure.”
“The multiplication of messages warning regarding non-existent episodes seeks to generate concern and discomfort among the population and affect commercial areas, depriving businessmen and workers of the possibility of functioning normally,” they sentenced from the local Executive.
Raúl Castells acknowledged that he encouraged the looting: “It is a crime that a kilo of milanesas costs $4,200”
“From the Municipality, in coordination with the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires and the business chambers, we work so that activity resumes in the shops that lowered their blinds this followingnoon as a result of spreading these false news. Likewise, we repudiate those who appeal to these mechanisms to disturb the neighbors,” they concluded.
Also, the Municipality of Jose C. Paz He also issued a statement in which he “categorically denies” that looting has occurred in the city governed by Mario Ishii. “We inform the population that the different services run normally“, they maintained.
Similarly, in Moreno They denied “the false information circulating on social networks regarding looting.” “No such event has occurred. All posts are published from fake profiles“, they stated from the commune directed by Mariel Fernández. “Together with the Province Police, we are touring and monitoring the Municipality, attentive to any situation,” they concluded
In the provinces of Córdoba, Mendoza and Neuquén, criminal acts once morest commercial premises were registered.
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“It is not because of hunger,” said the national government
The Ministry of National Security said that there are organized groups that “try to attract attention” and that coordinates actions via WhatsApp. “Since last week we have detected an attempt to arm, through WhatsApp, facts of some characteristic,” said the Minister of Security, Hannibal Fernandez.
“Someone is encouraging it, looking for an alternative that has nothing to do with the looting that is a vocation to encourage conflict“, he added.
“It’s not because of hunger”, emphasized the official while detecting “the attitude of generating a criminal act that brings more confusion.” “They have not been looting but an action that attracts attention. There is no social problem to care for and attend to,” he argued.
Agustín Rossichief of staff and candidate for vice president for Unión por la Patria, stressed that “a social reaction is not being noticed, but facts that deserve the full weight of the law” and clarified that there are detainees, with criminal records.
“We were aware the same Friday. It happened first in Mendoza and then in Río Cuarto and last night on the 1 – 11 – 14“, Rossi said and concluded:” There are detainees by the police and judicial authority and many of the organizers are citizens who had criminal records. We do not see in this a social reaction but events that deserve the full weight of the law.”
Milei related the events to 2001: “It is tragic to see the same images once more”
Javier Milei, presidential candidate of La Libertad Avanza, referred through his Twitter account to the attacks on businesses that were registered in different cities of the country, assuring that “It is tragic to see once more following 20 years the same images of looting that we saw in 2001”.
“Poverty and looting are two sides of the same coin”said the deputy. For the libertarian, “Argentina no longer resists” the “impoverishing model that is sustained by the force of those who live at the expense of the efforts of good Argentines” and closed with his already classic campaign slogan: “A different Argentina is impossible with the same as always.
This is not the first time that the libertarian has mentioned 2001, since last Saturday he indicated that, unlike that time, “when there was no way out, we are offering a solution“, following denying that his voters have chosen him for “anger”.
And I add: “People are angry because things have been done wrong for 40 years. She has every reason to be furious with the filthy political caste.”
Milei crossed the Government and compared the looting with the 2001 crisis: “This impoverishing model can no longer resist”
Mendoza: mayors dismissed that there is a “partisan” link
On August 19, some 19 people were arrested for attempting to commit looting in the Mendoza towns of Las Heras, Guaymallén and Rivadavia. Seven of the detainees were charged by the Justice for aggravated robbery.
The president of the Chamber of Businessmen of Commerce, Industry, Tourism and Services of the City of Mendoza, Adrian Alín, assured the newspaper Sun what “There is no specific complaint of looting” and that they are only rumors.
Meanwhile, Mendoza mayors of districts in which there were organized robberies of supermarkets They dismissed that there is a “partisan” link with those criminal acts and warned that there is “a critical social situation and a worrying economic one.”
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“On Friday we found out regarding the WhatsApp groups, where we warned the businesses of Las Heras and those of our town,” said the community chief of Guaymallén, Marcelino Iglesias.
The manager indicated that “This makes a critical social situation and a worrisome economic situation a reality, which obviously does not remove the responsibility of these people for the events carried out.”
“My obligation is to do everything possible to preserve social peace: it is like health, it is valued when it has been lost,” Iglesias graphed.
And he added: “This is not the time to cut routes, blockades. It is time to ask the Government for measures now, to see what can be taken for all the people in a democratic framework.”
Vandalism in José C. Paz, Escobar, Moreno and Tigre: the details
Although most of the cases reported during the day were false alarms, sources confirmed to the news agency THAT what was there looting in supermarkets of José C. Paz, Escobar, Moreno and Tigre (Don Torcuato)while they tried to rob an electrical appliance store in Pilarwhere there were four arrested.
The judge on duty of San Martín Gabriela Persichini confirmed this Tuesday that a looting investigation committed in a Día supermarket in the Buenos Aires town of José C. Paz.
“They broke down the doors and entered the place, which was closed due to rumors of looting. There is a lot of damage, the Police arrived and they threw stones and bottles at them. They had to ask for reinforcements and five more patrol cars came down,” the magistrate said in statements to the channel LN+.
Likewise, he remarked that “there are four detainees, but also many escapeesso there is a deep investigation to identify them and see how these looting began“.
“I’m surprised they deny the fact, because the minister Sergio Berni and the police chief (Daniel García) are in the place in José C. Paz. The mayor did not have enough information there,” added Persichini.
The mayor of Tigre, Julio Zamoraaffirmed that there was “a looting for which it was possible to act quickly and a person was arrested.”
“These neighbors who looted a Día Supermarket are mostly young. We want to bring peace of mind to the population, because we are very attentive to what can happen in each place in Tigre,” Zamora said.
Regarding the episodes that occurred in that town, the candidate for mayor of Tigre for Together for Change, According to Cernadasargued that “Governor Axel Kicilloff has to guarantee peace and urgent protection for the residents of Don Torcuato. The working people are not violent. There can be no violence in Tigre. All the violent events that have been taking place since the followingnoon must be clarified urgently.“.
“For months we warned of a situation of growing insecurity in Don Torcuato which is spreading to the rest of Tigre. We demand that Governor Axel Kicillof guarantee the tranquility and protection of the residents and merchants of all of Tigre and especially of Don Torcuato,” added the opposition candidate for the mayor.
Sergio Berni confirmed 36 arrests
For his part, the Buenos Aires Minister of Security, Sergio Berni confirmed that there were 36 detaineesspoke of “coordinated” episodes and denounced a campaign on social networks inciting looting.
A Chinese supermarket in La Reja, in the Moreno district, had been looted and then set on fire.
The images were captured by neighbors who shared the videos on social networks.
Also, the business owner he received a brick on the head and had to be hospitalizedalthough he was later discharged.
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“Starting at 7:00 p.m. there were different outbreaks of organized robberies to different businesses in Moreno, the Municipal Security Secretariat together with the Buenos Aires Police have so far detained 8 people who will be investigated for the crimes committed“, reported in an official statement from the municipality of Moreno.
Another episode occurred around 7:15 p.m., in Escobar, where they tried to enter the Dia de Maquinista Savio supermarket. “We update information on criminal political maneuvers using children and adolescents Around 7:15 p.m., a group of young people tried to violently enter the Día de Maquinista Savio supermarket. The fact is completely unprecedented and clearly shows that it was fired by political groups because a similar modus operandi was registered in other municipalities. In Escobar they were unsuccessful because members of the Buenos Aires Police and Community Prevention agents acted quickly and efficiently, without regretting injuries, he said. Ariel Sujarchukmayor of Escobar.
“There were six detainees, four of them minors between the ages of 12 and 15.. Two other young women are barely over 18. All of them They didn’t even belong to the neighborhood or the town. They did not go looking for food, they went looking for a conflict orchestrated from dark interests. There is not the slightest doubt, as we have already said, that this responds to spurious political maneuvering which we are going to investigate in depth to continue guaranteeing the safety of our community, which wants to live in peace and harmony, he said.
In third of Februarythe Municipality indicated: “Attempts of vandalism were detected in businesses that were dissuaded and neutralized by agents of provincial special forces. There are detainees for these events and they are already at the disposal of Justice.”
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