The Minister of Security of the Nation, Aníbal Fernández, referred this Tuesday to the arrest of the leader of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), Facundo Jones Huala, was satisfied with the work of the forces involved and also, in the face of the opposition’s claims in this regardindicated that the ex-minister of his portfolio, Patricia Bullrich, might not make progress on the problem who lives in the south of the country with the Mapuche communities.
“I feel very satisfied that we did a job in a few months with seriousness, optimism, desire, we had no complications, we did not hurt anyone and the results are visible; is stopped”, remarked the official of the cabinet of Alberto Fernández in dialogue with Radio 10.
After that, and on the reaction of the opposition Upon hearing the news, Fernández was harsh with the president of Pro and said regarding the criticisms launched: “I am not interested in flattery, I am interested in the recognition of the effort that they might never resolve and when it was up to Bullrich to work on this issue on time in the Patagonia, meant the deaths of Santiago Maldonado and Rafael Nahuel”.
“We work very seriously and very carefully, there is not a single scratch”added regarding the operation to arrest Jones Huala.
Yesterday, from his social networks, Bullrich had celebrated the arrest of the fugitive Chilean: “I congratulate Governor Arabela Carreras and the Río Negro Police for the arrest of Jones Huala. It is very important that the law governs and people who are fugitives cannot walk like any ordinary citizen. It is an important step, and I hope that this now goes the way of returning him to Chile, so that he can serve his sentence.”
For his part, alfredo cornejoa national senator for Mendoza and close to Bullrich, had targeted yesterday once morest Alberto Fernandez for receiving the mother of Jones Huala last December. “The national government turned a blind eye for almost three years while in the south they suffered violence from characters who pretend to represent indigenous peoples. Ministers resigned so as not to intervene ”, he highlighted. Also, he had noted: “It is worrying that alleged leaders who sow violence and do not recognize the Argentine State are being fed.”
At the interview Fernández also apologized and said that initially “there was no red alert from Interpol, there was a blue alert” for which he clarified what the Government would have done if it had first obtained the location of the fugitive: “We would have told Interpol to change the code blue to red so that we might legally detain him in Argentina without any complications, because until now he was detained with some cases in Chubut and Río Negro”.
Regarding the steps to follow following the arrest, he explained: “Chile appears before the Government and begins a process in accordance with Law 24,767 in which it clearly states that [Jones Huala] it will have due process, as established by our Constitution, and it will have a first instance and eventually the Court”.
“He [por Jones Huala] He is convicted in Chile and is under house arrest, fired his lawyers and fled. We had the responsibility that this did not happen without any consequences. The people of Río Negro knew what our mission was. In this case [la detención] It was done by the Río Negro Police, who worked very well with us,” he said.
Then, he criticized the opposition once more: “They don’t care regarding the fugitive for Fabián ‘Pepín’ Rodríguez Simón [el exasesor de Mauricio Macri, acusado de integrar una presunta asociación ilícita]. They don’t care regarding anything they are like shellsThey want to take advantage of everything.”
“The man [por Jones Huala] He is detained within the framework of what was being done, when the eviction task was carried out [de viviendas tomadas por mapuches] in Villa Mascardiwhich they mightn’t do [por los hechos de 2017] and they were expelled with stones and molotovs; we do take them out [a los que tomaban viviendas]”, explained the official.
Then, he made a reservation regarding the arrests of four Mapuche women from different organizations. “They want to blame the arrests on me, but I am not a judge to decide the deprivation of someone’s liberty. Judge Silvina Domínguez is the one who made the decision and detained, of the seven women, four who are on trial and under house arrest, ”she said.
Interpol issued a red circular yesterday to ensure the preventive detention for extradition purposes of the leader of the Mapuche Ancestral Resistance (RAM), Facundo Jones Huala, who was arrested following being found on a property in El Bolsón, drunk and dressed in a skirt. like the man established his address in Chubut, the case with his extradition request was sent to the federal Court of Esquel, which declared itself incompetentwith which the case returned to the federal Justice of Bariloche, where the request for extradition from the Chilean courts is expected to arrive, through a request that the foreign ministries of both countries process.
“We have a short term of 24 hours for ordinary crimesbut to sustain the arrest we need Chile to request the extradition”, the Río Negro Minister of Security, Betiana Minor, had warned yesterday morning. In other words, if the red circular was not issued, the Mapuche leader would be released in a matter of hours..
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