The four members of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation were present this Thursday in Rosario to participate, together with members of the Judicial Council and federal judges from all over the country, in a debate on the problem of drug trafficking, whose link to violence caused part of the 103 murders that have occurred so far this year in that city.
The meeting organized by the Association of Federal Judges (Ajufe) takes place at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Rosario (UNR).
The organizers reported that The opening will be in charge of the President of the Court, Horacio Rosatti, who will be accompanied by his colleagues Carlos Rosenkrantz, Ricardo Lorenzetti and Juan Carlos Maqueda.
The main problem that Rosario has been going through for a decade, linked to drug trafficking and trade, lies in the violence used by criminal organizations
The meeting of judges, chamberlains, counselors and members of the highest court will be held under the slogan “The trial of drug trafficking”, and the selection of the venue seeks to give a sign of support to the Federal Justice of Rosario in matters of criminal prosecution of drug trafficking.
The main problem that Rosario has been going through for a decade, linked to drug trafficking and trade, lies in the violence used by criminal organizations that dispute this illegal market.
Cassation supported the members of the Judiciary threatened
The Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation expressed this Thursday its “supportive accompaniment and manifest support” for members of the Judiciary who were “the object of threatening criminal activities” in areas “where drug trafficking and organized crime have spread alarmingly.”
In an agreement signed by all its members, the highest federal criminal court in the country resolved “express the solidary accompaniment and manifest support for the Magistrates and Officials who have been the object of threatening criminal activities”according to the text to which Télam had access.
He also stressed “the need to strengthen the federal jurisdictional bodies, especially with a seat in the province of Santa Fe, in order to comply with the objective of strengthening Justice for all its inhabitants, proclaimed in the National Constitution”
In the agreement, reference was made to the “serious escalation of insecurity that must be unduly endured by those entrusted with the duty of administering Justice, particularly in jurisdictions in which drug trafficking and organized crime have spread alarmingly”.
According to data from the Santa Fe Public Security Observatory, of the 97 homicides that occurred in the city of Rosario between last January and April, 84.6% were committed with firearms; 20.5% had as victims boys between 15 and 19 years old; and 61.9% had as context the disputes between “criminal organizations” for market shares of the “illegal economy”.
After the opening of the meeting this Thursday, there will be a panel on the “Investigation and prosecution of drug trafficking” by the cameramen Javier Leal de Ibarra and Aníbal Pineda; Rosario federal judge Carlos Vera Barros; Judge Karina Perilli, of an Oral Economic Criminal Court; and Miguel Guerrero, federal judge of the town of Eldorado (Misiones).
The Federal Court of Appeals, which has two chambers of three members each, has two retirement vacancies that were not filled
The closing of the activity will be in charge of Lorenzetti, one of the Santa Fe judges of the Court.
The provincial governor, Omar Perotti, the mayor of Rosario, Pablo Javkin, and the three national senators from Santa Fe are also invited.
One of the issues to be discussed is the reinforcement of the Federal Justice in the city of Rosario, which has only two courts in criminal matters, whose judges -Vera Barros and Marcelo Bailaque- subrogate the courts of San Nicolás and Santa Fe, respectively. .
Of the three Federal Oral Courts that exist in the city, and that are in charge of oral trials and drug trafficking sentences, one does not have any appointed judge.
The Federal Court of Appeals, which has two chambers of three members each, has two retirement vacancies that were not filled.
“A power alone can do nothing”
The president of the Association of Federal Judges (Ajufe), Jorge Moranpointed out that the presence of the members of the Supreme Court, magistrates and judicial officials in Rosario “It is a way of supporting” the work carried out by judges and prosecutors against drug trafficking in that city of Santa Fe”.
“We want to send an open message, because a power alone can do nothing”, Morán said in statements prior to the start of the debate to be held at the National University of Rosario (UNR).
For her part, the deputy and member of the Judicial Council, Graciela Camanomaintained that “we want to establish a presence in the city of Rosario”, which is going through a public security crisis due to the violence associated with drug dealing.
“We thought it was very important to mark the presence of the Council of the Judiciary in the different levels that make it up.Let justice know that she is not alone”, maintained the national legislator.
In his turn, the federal judge of Rosario and vice president of Afuje, Carlos Vera Barrosconsidered that the meeting “is a very strong institutional support, which comforts us personally”.
“It is a support that is also transversal, because it involves political power and provincial justice,” added the magistrate.
