Argentina proudly shows that it is “a hostile territory” to drug trafficking

Argentina proudly shows itself to be “a hostile territory” to drug trafficking, the Minister of Security said this Friday, Patricia Bullrichin good airwhere he gave details of the operation that ended last night with the arrest of family members of the Ecuadorian drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías Villamaralias ‘Fito’.

In a press conference in which members of the national and provincial Executive of Córdoba (center of the country) offered information about the operation that led to the arrest of eight family members and associates of the criminal fugitive from Ecuadorian justice and his subsequent deportation, the head of the Interior, Guilherme FrancoI concluded that “Argentina will not be a drug trafficking country.”

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“There is a decision to expel foreign criminals”, added the Minister of Defense, Luis Petri.

The Minister of Security of the province of Cordoba, Juan Pablo Quinterosconfirmed that they arrested eight individuals – whose identities they did not reveal – after a joint operation by the Cordoba together with the anti-terrorism and criminal investigation divisions of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA).

“There was no evidence that they came to carry out their criminal tasks in Argentina, but rather to seek refuge in the country.”he assured Quinteros.

According to Bullrichthere was prior planning for settlement, as last November they purchased a house in a private neighborhood in the suburbs of Cordoba.

“They had several entrances to the territory, hypothesis What we achieved is that, once the family is installed, ‘Phyto‘Would break out of prison to join them“, said the minister.

The attack by an armed group on the canal facilities TC Television -on January 9th- in Ecuador, where its workers were kidnapped for several hours during a live broadcast, it would have acted as a screen for ‘Phyto‘ will execute his escape from Guayaquil Regional Prison.

“We had an alert from the authorities of Ecuador (that) the family of this killer, ‘Fito’, was hiding here. Therefore, for Argentina it is a very important success to have deported them.“, indicated the national official, who added that the Government of Cordoba He was also developing a parallel investigation into this family and, once the two investigations were coordinated, the work of both Administrations was united.

The income of the detained individuals were legal and there were no alerts about them when they entered on January 5th to Argentina. Therefore, to achieve deportation, Migrations – dependent on the Ministry of the Interior – had to cancel the temporary residence of these people.

Relatives of the gang leaderThe Choneros‘They arrived this Friday at Guayaquil (Ecuador), deported on a plane from Argentine Air Force (FAE), where they were taken a few hours after being detained in a private neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Córdoba.

Source: Elcomercio

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