Bullrich denounces former Argentine Secretary of Human Rights for “betrayal of the country”

The Argentine Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrichthis Monday denounced the former Secretary of Human Rights Horacio Pietragalla (2019-2023) for “treason against the country”, “abuse of authority” and “violation of the duties of public servants”, crimes allegedly committed during the death case. an activist in 2017.

According to Bullrich -who held the Security portfolio at the time of the event, during the center-right Government Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) -, the secretary of Human rights during the Peronist administration Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) there would be “false facts declared and authentic facts hidden” during his presentation, in May 2022, at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), within the scope of the case presented to this instance by relatives of the activist Santiago Maldonado.

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In her complaint, the minister considers that Pietragalla declared in this sense with the intention of involving it in “alleged unlawful conduct in the search and administrative investigation raised by Maldonado’s disappearance”who died on August 1, 2017, but was found 78 days later in a well.

In your complaint, Bullrich against the accusations launched by Pietragalla before the IACHRin which he guaranteed that the Argentine State “hid evidence”, “sowed false clues”“he did not allow the relatives (of Maldonado) access to relevant information about the research Maldonado” It is “he did not let them participate in the main search measures.”

“Everything is absolutely false, because the family Maldonado had a crucial role in the search and subsequent discovery of the young man’s body (…) and also (managed to) direct the operation to extract the body (…) and track your transfer to the morgueIt is“, says the minister, who was a presidential candidate for the center-right coalition Together for Change in the last elections of Argentina and, after being left out of the second round, supported the libertarian movement Javier Milei.

According to the minister’s complaint, the then secretary’s statements could be classified as the crime of “betrayal of the country”since they commit Argentina before an international organization that can sanction the country, obliging it to compensate the Maldonado’s relatives.

The Constitution of Argentina establishes that those guilty of the crime of treason “shall be punished with the maximum penalty provided for in Penal Code and Military Justice Codeas the case may be, and permanently disqualified from holding public office.”

In August 2023, Argentine justice dismissed the gendarmes (border police) investigated for the death of Maldonadowho was 28 years old at the time.

According to the investigation into the case, he died in the same place while fleeing police eviction from a Mapuche indigenous protest in the Patagonian province of Chubut (South of the country).

He ‘Maldonado Affair’ acquired special political relevance in Argentinawas attended to by UN and other international organizations and marked the electoral campaign for the legislative elections held in the country in 2017.

Source: Elcomercio

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