Sofia Ottogalli it feels persecuted politician. She, along with 32 other people, was detained last week when he was protesting in Congress against the Bases Law promoted by the Government of Javier Milei. Hours after regaining freedom, he told of the 750 how were the abuse and the abuse when she was deprived of her freedom and explained the political motives behind this entire judicial and media operation.
Sofía, a student, nanny and mother of two children, was imprisoned from Wednesday afternoon until Friday morning. The conditions of his detention were “terrible” and “inhuman”, in his own words. And the mistreatment by the police is constant.
“They took us from one place to another – he said – nowhere did they tell us there was a place to stay. They never told us why we were. We could never see a lawyer. We spent more or less 15 hours in a van handcuffed. They took us to a diagonal in the Obelisk. All this because we assumed where we were. Because they didn’t tell us.”
In addition, he said that he was not allowed to speak to any lawyer. “They told us that no one had shown up, since the places were already full of people outside. We spent many hours there. They didn’t let us go to the bathroom. They took us to police station number 4. There they told us that there was room for us Finally, they tell us no. They take us to the 15th police station. “We slept in the truck,” he detailed.
After spending the entire night handcuffed in a van, they were taken into a packed police station and left lying in a hallway, still handcuffed and without access to food or water. “Our relatives sent us water and it didn’t reach us at any time. They never gave us food. If it was because of them, we went three nights without eating,” she denounced.
That is why it is not striking that Ottogalli reveals that the traumas that remain are severe and that his mental health is greatly affected: “What was experienced was a situation of fear and constant threat. We were claiming that we needed to see our people to tell them what situations we were in. To find out what we were accused of. Because at no time did anyone read any case to us.”
In fact, police hostilities were the order of the day: “At one point they began to tell us ‘we don’t care if you are media prisoners.’ and they ignored us, they treated us badly. And we didn’t understand what he meant. Until we began to realize that there was a very big movement outside.”
For Sofía, the political framework is clear: “It feels like total madness. Right after I come out, Stornelli comes out with this line that all the prisoners have to go back in. My mental health is very bad. I haven’t slept well for nights. “I feel like I am being politically persecuted.”.
“Now that they have freed most of them, I am not so afraid. But you still live in fear. The truth is that I am not a terrorist. I am a mother of two children, a student, a nanny. None of this makes sense. They want to generate fear and criminalize protest. Don’t let people go out into the streets again.”, he concluded.
