retired police director Ruben Rimoldi He resigned this Wednesday night from the Ministry of Security of the province of Santa Fe, after six months in charge of the portfolio and in the midst of an escalation of violence in the city of Rosario, and is replaced by the secretary Claudio Brilloniwho has already taken an oath.
After a meeting in the city of Santa Fe with the provincial governor, Omar Perottithe now ex-minister formalized the resignation from the Security portfolio, official spokesmen told Télam.
That same night Perotti swore in as minister the current Santa Fe Security Secretary, Claudio Brilloni, a retired gendarme.
Rimoldi had taken office on August 10 of last year after the resignation of Jorge Lagna, also occurred in the midst of a context of increasing violence in the city of Rosario, who had at the same time replaced Marcelo Saín in Security.
Rimoldi had assumed his role with the aim of providing a unified leadership to the security force, divided into several areas with their own headquarters, as he explained.
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This Wednesday morning, a municipal health center in Rosario and the local mayor, Paul Javkindemanded that the minister settle in the city, at the same time that he requested the incorporation of 5,000 police officers.
With 24 murders in January and 7 so far in Februarythe main city of the province was shocked by the crime of Lorenzo “Jimi” Altamirano, which occurred last week.
The victim was a musician and craftsman who was picked up by a car, killed and dumped in front of an entrance to the Newell’s Old Boys football club stadium.
According to the development of the investigation, it was a victim chosen “at random” to send a mafia message in the middle of the inmate of the barrabrava of the cluban event that has never occurred so far in Rosario.
During a press conference held this afternoon, Rimoldi announced that the investigation of this case was advanced and that raids would be carried out.
The dissemination of this information was repudiated by the head of the Organized Crime Agency of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPA), Luis Schiappa Pietra, who was upset.
“How is a minister going to say that we are about to search a home”, said Schiappa Pietra and stressed that “it is unheard of for someone to say that we are going to search”.
Spokesmen for the provincial government indicated that the governor withdrew his support from Rimoldi due to the few achievements in terms of security and not because of what he said this morning.
Brilloni, who will replace Rimoldi, is a retired General Commander of the Argentine National Gendarmerie (GNA), was General Director of Operations of that federal security force and director of Region VIII of the Gendarmerie in Santa Fe.
Brilloni took over as Provincial Security Secretary in April 2022, but he had been in the portfolio since the end of 2021 as Secretary of Prevention and Citizen Control.
With different destinations in the Gendarmerie since 1981, when he entered the force, Brilloni was the one who commanded the operation that was carried out in Rosario with the arrival of 3,500 gendarmes in 2014, a decision adopted by the then Secretary of National Security, Sergio Berni.
