The Secretary of Security of the City of Buenos Aires, Diego Kravetzmade a series of unfortunate radio statements on Tuesday. Among other things, he stated that “the mind of the cartonero is already different from the rest of the citizens due to his type of work, like that of people who live on the streets.”
Kravetz was not short of prejudice and also declared that “If as a neighbor you give a plate of hot soup to the person who lives on the street, you accommodate him in poverty and it is a non-virtuous cycle.«In another passage, he warned: «It is shocking for a person to have someone living in the lobby of their building.»
The interview in question was given by the secretary to the radio program Ahora dicen, from the signal FuturockAt the beginning of the talk, Kravetz justified the repression of the people who went out to celebrate winning the Copa América at the Obelisco. “Until a certain time, people were quite peaceful at the Obelisco, but then some stragglers remained and began to cause trouble. They tried to enter the Obelisco and we had to use public force to stop their aggression. There were 6 arrests, today they are being questioned and due to the type of crime I do not think they will be detained.“, he noted.
The secretary was then questioned regarding the treatment given by the government of Jorge Macri to the homeless. “There are many homeless people in the City. Today we have more than 4,500. There is a coexistence issue where we try to give it a twist, the homeless situation is a very sad situation and romanticizing it is creating poverty,” he said.
Along the same lines, he continued: “There are different types of homeless people, the ones that are complicated are those who are living in shanty towns because they tend to do illegal things. There are a lot of them with psychiatric problems and addictions and they need to be addressed in a different way. It is difficult to live together. It is shocking for a person to have someone living in the hall of their building.«.
«We are the State and we have to enforce the rules of coexistence. The City is the only jurisdiction with shelters and they are not all occupied, but it is not because there are not enough people to occupy them, it is because they do not agree to occupy them. If each person does what he wants when he does not like what is there, the rules of coexistence are altered. They protest the situation in the bus stops because they have rules“, he assured and concluded:”The head of the cartonero is already different from the rest of the citizens due to his type of work, like that of people who live on the streets.. The inn makes you uncomfortable because it structures your life differently from what you are used to in solitude.
Diego Kravetz, on the reduction of imputability
To put the finishing touch to the anachronistic approach to the subject, he stated: «If as a neighbor you give a plate of hot soup to the person who lives on the street, you accommodate him in poverty and it is a non-virtuous cycle.«.
Finally, with the same empathetic capacity, he spoke regarding the situation of the prisoners. «For the City to have the prisoners that the Nation should have, it costs us 1,500 police officers, 2,100 food rations, more equipment and maintenance of the places. It is necessary to lower the law of imputability because if someone starts committing crimes at 10 years old, at 13 he is already a professional«.
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The response of the senator from Buenos Aires, Fagioli
«On a scale from 1 to Kravetz, how much of a shitty person can you be?“, the response of the senator from Buenos Aires and leader of Juan Grabois’ party, Federico Beansto the Secretary of Security of CABA, Diego Kravetz.
Automatically, the author of the national law for homeless people and families without a roof came out to counter: “You have a very rotten head to see in the act of handing a plate of hot food to a person who HAS NOTHING, an ‘accommodation in poverty’.”
At the same time, the Patria Grande representative referred to the Solidarity Brigades for Accompanying Homeless People that they have been carrying out from Argentina Humana: “If you do care regarding what happens to others, join the Solidarity Brigades for Accompanying Homeless People. You can sign up as a volunteer at Human Argentina«.
