The Minister of Security of the City of Buenos Aires, Waldo Wolffexplained this Sunday that the Buenos Aires police comply with a protocol that is legislated when they must act in the face of violent events in street demonstrations, and assured that a large group of those protesting against the approval of the Base Law Wednesday in Congress It was there to “rot it”.
“I think there is a large group that wanted to rot it. We are doing a rough analysis. Then there is someone who tells you ‘I was there, they arrested me, and I don’t really belong to that group’. Unfortunately the analyzes are thick. But if, I think there is a group that went to rot it“Wolff said during an interview on FM Milenium regarding the incidents that occurred on Wednesday while the reform package promoted by Javier Milei was being debated in the Senate.
“Today the word repression is on the table. So I say: stop demonizing the word ‘repression’ alone. Because if the police repress for nothing, that is a crime. If a police officer, mine or from the federal forces, takes out a stick and hits a person on the head who is standing with a sign in the square doing nothing, that is a crime,” the official added, and stressed: “The police officer who does that has to go to prison”.
Wolff raised differences regarding the interpretations that are made when talking about repression, and said that the word “is demonized when it is made anachronistic. The illegal repression of the dictatorship is a crime condemned by all. I am a son of democracy, I was born in ’68. In ’76 I was six years old. I am a son of democracy.
On the other hand, he was in favor of its use when it represents the use of force in the hands of police officers to suppress a crime. “The actions of the security forces to stop a crime are not reprehensible. On the contrary, it is commendable. “It’s what has to be done,” he said.
Last Wednesday, in the middle of the session for the Bases Law in the Senate, serious incidents occurred in the vicinity of Congress. The first clashes between security forces and protesters occurred in the morning, and then they happened at night, after the general approval of the project.
The peak of tension occurred in the afternoon when the columns of leftist movements threw Molotov cocktails and stones, and at one point they turned around and set fire to a mobile phone belonging to the Cordoban media Cadena 3. The security forces responded with tear gas and the use of hydrant trucks.
