2024-03-12 00:05:00
Rosario is considered the most dangerous city in Argentina, with a homicide rate of 22 per 100,000 inhabitants, five times the national rate (4.2), also one of the lowest in Latin America.
The Argentine government promised this Monday March 11 a “police saturation” plan and a special “anti-mafia” type law to fight crime in Rosario, the country’s third city, following a recent wave of murders and threats linked to local drug trafficking.
In a slow-moving city on Monday, without taxis or buses and with schools closed, Security Minister Patricia Bullrich clarified at a press conference the announcement made the day before of the sending of federal forces – 450 men – so that Rosario ( 1.3 million inhabitants) does not become a “land of narco-terrorists”.
Patricia Bullrich also announced the upcoming sending to Parliament of an “anti-gang” law, targeting an association offense, “a new type of criminal prosecution, by which the crimes of these gangs are attributed to any of its members, as did the anti-mafia penal code in Italy”.
Four murders in five days
Rosario, a crucial gateway for grain exports, but also for drugs from neighboring countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay), is not prey to significant drug trafficking, but to the coexistence of multiple small gangs, and frequent shootings. , to intimidate a rival gang or for the purposes of extortion.
A recent wave saw four murders in five days – two taxi drivers, one bus driver and a gas station worker – which authorities analyze as a “reaction” by imprisoned gang leaders once morest a recent tightening of their detention conditions.
The governor of the province (Sante Fe) for three months, Maximiliano Pullaro, has communicated extensively in recent weeks regarding his campaign once morest gangs and their leaders in prison, with images of detainees under harsh restraint, like the Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.
The recent series of murders, and threats to kill “other innocent people”, while demanding “rights for detainees”, have led school principals to suspend face-to-face classes since Monday.
Patricia Bullrich also announced that she will ask the courts for the possibility of invoking the anti-terrorism law during proceedings once morest the Rosario gangs, so that “any action aimed at intimidating the population is punishable by double punishment”.
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