The Buenos Aires Security Minister, Sergio Berni, spoke this Monday followingnoon following being attacked during a protest by bus drivers in La Matanza. He asserted that he will not resign from his position and pointed once morest the Government for sending members of the national forces to the province of Buenos Aires.
In turn, Axel Kicillof’s official revealed that he suffered a skull fracture and that the doctors are considering operating on him.
The attack occurred during a demonstration for the death of Daniel Barrientos, a bus driver who died from a shot to the chest following being caught in the middle of a shootout between a group of criminals and a member of the City Police.
At the door of the Churruca Hospital, where he was referred following the beatings, the minister assured that the crime of the driver of line 620 “was not a common occurrence” in terms of his modus operandi, and considered that the attack he suffered during the protest It was “one more blow” that “does not make a dent”.
Regarding the event that sparked the protest, Berni maintained that “when one investigates this type of case, experience shows that it is not usual, it is not the modus operandi” of the thieves.
“We investigate every day. No one crosses a bus with a car, two 40-millimeter pistols. It is not a common occurrence,” insisted the official, following expressing his solidarity with the family of the driver who was murdered “in cold blood.”
Asked regarding how the aggression was, he pointed out: “The situation was already being resolved, we had agreed where we were going to speak; Infantry advanced, I asked them please not to advance and the outcome was what it was. “One dies standing up and not kneeling,” he said.
Berni suffered a skull fracture
On the other hand, the official said that he is waiting for medical studies to see if it is necessary to undergo surgery due to a “malar fracture” derived from the aggression.
“I have a skull fracture, orbit collapse. They are injuries, cuts, stones to the head. I have an external table and a fractured malar”, Berni specified.
On the other hand, he assured that he will not file charges once morest the attackers and that he will not resign. “Why do I have to quit? What we are going to do is redouble the effort and continue working, ”she assured.
Berni criticized the national government
On the other hand, Berni questioned the security policy of the Government of Alberto Fernández and the Minister of National Security, Aníbal Fernández.
“We don’t know if they are going to send more troops, at least send the ones they said,” he remarked and noted that his Nation counterpart has not yet contacted him.
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