President Alberto Fernández “strongly” condemned the threats that former president Mauricio Macri received through messages published on social networks, and encouraged that the fact “be quickly clarified.”
“I wish to express my strong condemnation of the threats made against former President Mauricio Macri and various judicial officials, encouraging the investigation to move forward and the facts to be clarified quickly,” the president said in a message posted on his official Twitter account.
In this sense, the President assured that the national government urges “users and administrators of social networks not to allow them to become a vehicle of hatred and violence.”
I wish to express my strong condemnation of the threats made against the former president @mauriciomacri and different judicial officials, encouraging the investigation to move forward and the facts to be clarified quickly.
– Alberto Fernández (@alferdez) September 9, 2022
“We must recover democratic coexistence in a framework of respect for diversity,” Fernandez pointed out.
For his part, the Minister of the Interior, Eduardo “Wado” de Pedro, replied to the President’s publication on his social networks, and stated: “I adhere to the President’s words in condemning these threats.”
Along the same lines, he maintained that “intolerance, violence and hate messages must always be condemned, without partisan distinctions, by the whole of society that wants to live in democracy and peace.”
Federal justice opened an investigation to try to determine the origin of the threats made on the social network Twitter against Macri and federal prosecutor Diego Luciani, among others, sources with access to the case informed Télam.
Federal prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita required a series of test measures to try to establish who managed the user @Luisanfer2442, already suspended on the social network, from where the reported threats were published.
“How much do they pay me to go kill Macri and the shit that surrounds him?” Was the message published by the account investigated on September 1, hours before the attempted assassination of Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who guards her. of the former president denounced in the federal courts of Comodoro Py.
I adhere to the President’s words in condemning these threats.
Intolerance, violence and messages of hate must always be condemned, without partisan distinctions, by the whole of society that wants to live in democracy and peace. https://t.co/zPSX7TIndx– Wado de Pedro ?? (@wadodecorrido) September 9, 2022
On Thursday, the prosecutor Pollicita received through the Whatsapp application other tweets published by the user @Luisanfer2442 in which threats were made against his colleague Luciani and against the journalist Eduardo Feinmann, among others, for which he added these elements to the investigation, detailed the sources consulted.
