The Coordinator against Police and Institutional Repression (Correpi) will present this afternoon starting at 5:00 p.m. in the Plaza de Mayo, a “Report on the national repressive situation” in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and an updated case file.
The lawyer and reference of Correpi, María del Carmen Verdú, told Télam that although they hoped not to have cases of easy trigger in a scenario such as the health emergency, in which the movement of people in the street decreased, ” they maintained the numbers and the number of annual incidents grew in relation to 2019 or 2018 due to the enormous number of deaths that have occurred in places of detention. “
“We insist on the urgent anti-repression agenda,” he summarized and, in this sense, explained that in addition to the health measures adopted by the different governments, “what was done in that period was to empower and expand the powers and resources of the security forces. “.
“Instead of listening to the claims of the relatives of the people deprived of their liberty, what had more power was the campaign of the extreme right with the massive liberation of prisoners and 400 people died per year in a jail,” denounced the reference .
On the other hand, he stressed that “we started December 2019 with a president (Alberto Fernández) who, for the first time when he took office, in a historical event, said ‘we must end the logic of the easy trigger and that of the shot in the back ‘and that raised expectations among relatives of victims who have been fighting for 30 years. “
After that, there were other measures of the national government that Correpi considered “positive” such as the repeal of the “Protocols (Patricia) Bullrich”, former Minister of Security during the presidency of Mauricio Macri, the prohibition of the airport security police from carrying the regulatory weapon, the repeal of the protocol for the detention of people from the LGTBIQ + collective.
But nevertheless, The organization warned of “setbacks” registered in the framework of the coronavirus pandemic and added that the cases of easy trigger would drop by 50% if the regulation weapon were taken from all the security forces when they were in civilian clothes, because “more than half of the cases the gray people are in civilian clothes, when they are frank or when they are like those of the brigade that murdered Lucas González.”
