2023-11-18 22:45:12
– Five arrests for threats to candidate Massa
On the eve of the second round of the presidential election in Argentina, five people suspected of threats against candidate Sergio Massa.
Published: 11/18/2023, 11:45 p.m.
A tense climate vitiated the campaign for the second round of the presidential election on Sunday between the centrist Sergio Massa and the ultraliberal and “anti-system” economist Javier Milei, 53.
AFP
Five people were arrested Friday and Saturday in Argentina, on the eve of the second round of the presidential election, following threats targeting government candidate Sergio Massa or members of his family, according to consistent sources.
Three men and a woman aged 26 to 56 were arrested on Friday in the city of Cordoba (north), in the province of Chaco (north) and in Buenos Aires, according to police sources cited by the official Telam agency. A fifth, a young woman of 18, was arrested on Saturday in Salta (north), confirmed Security Minister Anibal Fernandez. The nature of the threats was not specified, but the young woman arrested on Saturday allegedly made direct death threats against Tomas, the 17-year-old younger son of Sergio Massa, via Instagram messaging, according to judicial sources cited by the Infobae website.
A federal judge launched an investigation Thursday, after a series of threatening messages intercepted on social networks, and a complaint at the beginning of the month from Sergio Massa’s wife. The judge also ordered close protection for the Massa family. The minister-candidate, 51, spoke about the incident on Friday on the sidelines of a meeting with entrepreneurs, revealing that his “family is now under security, due to repeated threats”.
An extremely indecisive vote
On Saturday, he published a message on his X account (formerly Twitter) to thank “all those who wrote to us to be concerned about the threats we received”.
A tense climate, particularly aggressive on social networks, vitiated the campaign for the second round of the presidential election on Sunday, an extremely indecisive vote between the centrist Sergio Massa and the ultraliberal and “anti-system” economist Javier Milei, 53 years old.
Illustration of this bitterness, Javier Milei was heckled on Friday evening at the opera, booed by part of the audience – but applauded by a small other – with cries of “Milei, scum, you are the dictatorship!” A rare ruckus at the prestigious Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, which delayed Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” by around ten minutes. The director of the Teatro Colon Jorge Telerman “unreservedly denounced an expression of intolerance”.
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