They reduced the brothers who barricaded themselves on the 20th floor of a building

Moments of maximum tension were experienced in Caballito where two brothers, with psychiatric conditions they barricaded themselves on the 20th floor of a building located a few meters from Avenida Rivadavia and Acoyte. They wanted them not to be evicted even though there was a judicial measure ordering it and they threatened to jump from the balcony. City Police, SAME and personnel from the Metropolitan Special Operations Division worked at the scene and broke the window and They managed to enter the property to subdue them.

The woman and the man, both close to 60 years old, are psychiatric patients and threatened to jump from the balcony. “In this case there is an order that arrives to be completed from which they tell this elderly couple that the woman had to be hospitalized,” described the journalist from C5N Diego Gabriele in the program The morning.

Both were barricaded in apartment 6 on the 20th floor of the building for several hours. The request for a work order for police personnel was about the cooperation of a demented reduction group requested by civil court No. 4 headed by Dr. Mariana Kanefsck for the transfer of a man and a woman.

After minutes of total uncertainty, which led to traffic being cut off on Rivadavia Avenue at 5000, pRescue personnel managed to enter the property through the window. “They did not want to go through the door because they were afraid that they would throw themselves out of the window. Then when they manage to compensate them, they will take them down and put them on a SAME stretcher so that the psychiatric unit can transfer them to a specific place,” he reported from the scene. the journalist Claudio Cardozo.

After having the situation under control, Doctor Alberto Crescenti provided details to the press about how the events occurred: “We went up with teams of psychiatrists, we tried to calm them down, at first they were irreducible that’s why both the police and firefighters acted together.”

“We always avoided a greater evil for them, they could not continue in the situation where we were seeing, something uninhabitable. It was really complicated, it had become difficult but we convinced them. Luckily we did not have to administer medication but it cost us a lot and we were able to get them out where appropriate,” added Crescenti, who also stated that the brothers “were psychiatrically decompensated.”