the interior ministers, Eduardo «Wado» de Pedro and Security, Aníbal Fernándezheld a meeting tonight with the head of Buenos Aires Security, Marcelo D’Alessandro, and the Minister of Government of the city of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri, following the repression exerted by the Buenos Aires force in Recoleta on protesters which were concentrated in support of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
At the meeting, confirmed by official sources, The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Juan Martín Mena, also participated.
The incidents in the vicinity of the former president’s home began following a group of protesters knocked down the fences that this morning were arranged by police officers, that in the followingnoon they fired water from fire hydrant trucks and tear gas over the crowd.
Alberto Fernández: «I express my strongest repudiation»
After the City Police repressed this followingnoon a group of protesters who demolished the fence mounted in front of the residence of Vice President Cristina Kirchner, President Alberto Fernández today expressed his “strongest repudiation of the institutional violence unleashed by the Government from the city”.
“I express my strongest rejection of the institutional violence unleashed by the City Government once morest to a massive demonstration of citizens expressing themselves in freedom and democracy»Fernández posted on his Twitter social network account.
In this framework, the head of state stressed: “Maintaining social peace and guaranteeing the exercise of free expression of people is their institutional responsibility.”
“The authorities of the City of Buenos Aires and its security forces must work to take care of citizen security, avoiding creating contexts of hostility in the face of massive mobilizations,”
pointed out.
Fernández began his post by explaining how the riots originated: «Today the Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires arranged to deploy a police operation with fences that prevented free movement in the vicinity of the home of the Vice President of the Nation.
“The operation, far from contributing to the calm invoked, it generated a climate of insecurity and intimidation“said the President.
Furthermore, the head of state considered “imperative that the harassment of Vice President Cristina Kirchner cease and guarantee the right to free expression and demonstration of citizens.
“Likewise, I urge the opposition leadership to cease provocative and violent expressions and allow all the actors to express themselves responsibly to guarantee social peace”, he sentenced.
Telam Agency.
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