Argentine Security Minister justifies police action in response to “violent” demonstration

The Argentine Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichjustified the actions of the police forces who this Thursday fired rubber bullets at protesters who, in their opinion, were protesting with “violence” at the doors of Congress against the ‘general law‘, promoted by the Government of Javier Milei.

“The security forces had to make a dispersion movement so that people who wanted to violently take to the streets, as they were doing, would back down. And that’s what was achieved.”The minister said this Friday in statements on the radio.

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After incidents between police and protesters had already been reported on Wednesday, during the first day of debate in the Chamber of Deputies, this Thursday the clashes intensified when federal security forces opted to end the protest with rubber bullets and water cannons.

The police action, which the opposition described as disproportionate, left dozens of people injured by rubber bullets, including press workers covering the protest led by political groups and social movements, mostly left-wing.

Members of feminist groups and self-convened ecologists and neighbors.

Bullrich stated in statements to the radio Miter that the operation was implemented to avoid a “organized sector tries to take over Congress and generate chaos” and justified that there were many troops in need of there not being “total disorder”.

He explained that the police fired rubber bullets at the “assault”of the protesters, who shot “bottles and toothpicks”on a “attempt to make the security forces retreat and retake the streets”.

Regarding the injured press workers, he stated that security personnel had previously warned the journalists to leave the area because they were going to “acting in the face of disorder”.

On the other hand, he said that there were police officers attacked by protesters “in a permanent attempt to violate the limits.”

Bullrich stated that there was “lots of space in the square” of Congress to the protesters, who, however, “all the time” They intended to go to the sidewalk to block the street, something not permitted by the security protocol imposed by the new Milei Government and which the United Nations classified as illegal and asked to be reviewed.

Source: Elcomercio

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