Eight detainees and 7 officers injured during the protests, according to the Argentine government

Eight protesters were arrested and seven security forces officers were injured during the violent clashes that occurred between Wednesday and Thursday at the doors of Congress in good airwhere the ‘general law‘, as the Argentine government reported today.

In the Chamber, this project has been under debate since Wednesday, promoted by the Executive chaired by the libertarian Javier Milei, with whom the president intends to assume legislative powers within the framework of a period of multiple emergency.

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In his daily press conference, the Government spokesperson, Manuel Adornidescribed as “titanic”the task of security forces and ensured that agents “They were able to stop violent people.”

The Minister of Security expressed himself in the same sense, Patricia Bullrichwhich justified the police action and guaranteed that it avoided a “total mess”.

The tension between the protesters and the agents, who acted following the strict instructions of the security protocol implemented by the Government of Mileivisibly worsened on Thursday, when security forces attacked mobilized people and used rubber bullets, trucks with water cannons and Pepper Spray to suppress them.

“We are not willing for a ‘small group’ of violent people to try, want or be able to prevent a legislative debate,” he said Adorni.

After referring to the injured agents, he did not mention the twenty journalists and press workers who were injured yesterday while carrying out their work in the vicinity of the Congressaccording to the Buenos Aires Press Union (SiPreBa); Questioned by the press, the spokesperson refused to make reference to these events and limited himself to ensuring that the Government “is” committed to press freedom.

The spokesperson’s statements contrast with those he made the day before, when he expressed the solidarity of the Government with a journalist from the Argentine television network TN who was attacked by several protesters on camera.

Police action in Congress Square during the debate on thegeneral law‘has been widely criticized by the left, by Peronism and by independent organizations such as the Ombudsman’s Office City of Buenos Aireswhich requested that the possible commission of crimes by the intervening security forces be investigated.

Source: Elcomercio

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