This Tuesday, Juan Cabandie ratified its position on the fires produced in the islands of the Delta of the Paraná River, on which it inferred that justice “does nothing” to identify and convict those responsible.
The Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development He assured that “the fires are intentional. They are given for the renewal of grasslands, which is prohibited”, for which Juan Cabandie He stressed that “justice should act.”
at the time Juan Cabandie He explained that from the ministry “we do not have the competence to arrest those who are carrying out the fires, justice has to do it.”
He also pointed out that “society has changed and in the last 20 years it is more interested in environmental issues and demands more; the State also changed, it had to adapt to that and incorporate equipment and budget. The one that has not changed is Justice, which remains the same as it was 50 years ago and does nothing”.
Speaking to Radio 10, the head of the environmental portfolio warned that “the provinces are the ones that have power over natural resources, as established by the National Constitution.”
In that sense, he asserted “executive governments do not have police power, I cannot investigate who is setting the fire, nor do I have the competence to stop who is doing it. It is justice that has to do it.”
According to the latest report from the National Fire Management Service (SNMF), until this Monday “there were active foci of forest fires that included the provinces of Entre Ríos, Santa Fe and Buenos Airesprecisely in the areas of the Paraná delta”.
Juan Cabandié will expand his complaint before the justice
In order for these cases to be investigated by the competent authorities, the holder of the environmental portfolio will be presented in the National Court of Victoria, Entre Ríos, to expand a complaint.
“I am going to ask the judge of Victoria to ask the province of Entre Ríos for the cadastre records, and that the province give them to him, so that he can cross-check the geolocation information with the owners of those fields,” he said.
