The riots outside Congress in the protest against the Bases law left a total of 33 detainees and destruction of sidewalks, curbs, containers, garbage cans, streetlights, bicycles and benches.
Judge María Servini will be in charge of defining the judicial future of those detained for the destruction, both in the vicinity of Congress and in other areas of the City of Buenos Aires.
Initially, 21 detainees were under the jurisdiction of the Justice of the City of Buenos Aires, while two other detainees were the responsibility of the investigative justice. Added to these are ten others arrested by Judge Servini.
The demonstration, which began as a peaceful protest, later turned into acts of group violence that resulted in the destruction of public and private property.
One of the most serious events was the burning of a media cell phone. This incident, like the graffiti and damage to the Naval Prefecture’s mobile phones, has no arrests.
Meanwhile, one of the detained people had a grenade kidnapped that he had in his pocket. The device was in the possession of Cristian Valiente, a man of about 40 years old, arrested by the Buenos Aires City Police on the corner of Avenida de Mayo and Santiago del Estero when the weather was still tense.
See alsoFor the President’s Office, the protest in Congress was an attempted “coup d’état” Federal Justice must now thoroughly investigate the facts and determine the corresponding sanctions for those responsible. The 33 detainees will be investigated in the next few hours in order to determine responsibilities in a day that left significant material damage and disrupted the normal development of the legislative debate.
The economic and social impact of these damages will be evaluated in the coming days, while the City of Buenos Aires began working on repairing the damage this Wednesday.
Macri: “The destruction costs $278 million”
The Head of Government of Buenos Aires, Jorge Macri, stated that the damage caused during the demonstration in Congress will have a total cost of $278 million for the City of Buenos Aires.
See alsoFire, nudity and viral vandalism: violent postcards of the treatment of the Bases Law “Between repairs and cleaning, the damage done to our city costs $278 million,” said Macri, who explained that sidewalks, curbs, containers, garbage cans, lights, bicycles and benches must be repaired, among other damaged elements. .
On his social networks, Jorge Macri expressed his indignation at the destruction and stated: “Don’t come and tell me that yesterday was a peaceful demonstration, the only thing they did was break and violate what belongs to us all. Why are they “Would we Buenos Aires people have to pay the cost of this?”
The area surrounding Congress was the center of protests during the treatment of the Bases law in the Senate. Photo: NA “In our management, he who breaks, also pays,” he pointed out emphatically, stressing that those who have participated in the acts of vandalism must assume the economic consequences of their actions.
The cleaning operation and replacement of vandalized materials will represent a cost of $92 million, while the repair and recovery of the Plaza de los Dos Congresos and its area of influence is estimated at $186 million.
In the Plaza de los Dos Congresos, the damage includes 1,700 square meters of grass that cannot be recovered due to burns, almost 3,000 square meters that can be repaired, 200 vandalized ornamental plants, three destroyed heritage benches, eight damaged fixed baskets and 30 square meters of tiles with graffiti and stickers.
Repair and cleaning tasks began in the area surrounding Congress, which was the center of the demonstrations during the treatment of the Bases law in the Senate. Photo: NA Damage to Plaza Moreno and Plaza Lorea was also significant, costing an estimated $67 million. These include more than 800 square meters of unrecoverable grass, more than 3,400 square meters that can be recovered, eight square meters of broken tiles, nine burned XL panzer baskets and graffiti on equipment, ciboriums, masts and flooring. Additionally, repairing the damaged fixtures will cost approximately $3.7 million.
