The Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández, assured that they are working “by the piece” to identify those responsible for the incidents that occurred this afternoon in front of the National Congress, while the agreement with the IMF was being debated in the Chamber of Deputies.
“We are working hard to identify those responsible. They will not go unpunished,” the minister posted on his Twitter account tonight.
A group of protesters against the agreement with the IMF threw stones at the Congress headquarters this afternoon and burned tires in front of the building, in riots that broke out while the deputies were in full session and ended with five police officers injured and an activist arrested .
“Deplorable situation with disturbances. The City is jurisdiction ceded a few years ago. With the PFA we insist on acting without repression but putting an immediate end to the outrages. The wounded and the violence will be remembered when the pension reform is dealt with,” Fernández began thread on Twitter.
“We avoided institutional violence by coordinating without harming innocents. They injured a CABA police officer with whom I sympathize. We must analyze with his superiors how the procedure was put together,” concluded the head of the Security portfolio.
Sources from the City Police informed this agency that the five injured officers belong to the Urban Order Division and specified that one of them “was hit by a Molotov cocktail and is unharmed, only with damage to his uniform and protections,” while a officer lost control, another suffered a sprained ankle and two others received a cut on the face and a stone hit on the ankle.
The riots began when a minority of protesters began to throw stones at the Congress, to the point of shattering some of the window panes, while columns of smoke rose in the street from burning tires.
The expressions of violence lasted for several minutes without the police taking action, who arrived at the scene later to try to control the situation.
