The spokesperson for the IAVA high school student union Geronimo Sena He replicated a song on his Twitter account in which he cHe describes as “repressors” the policemen who “are not workers, they defend the bourgeoisie.” At the end of the text Sena wrote: “The soldiers outside, let the sifpom go, We have to throw them all out of our convention.” This last sentence caught the attention of the Montevideo Police Officers Union (Sifpom) which asked for the support of the PIT CNT for the student’s statements.
Next Monday the current Articulation of the PIT CNT will meet urgently to analyze the events of the last hours between the demonstrations of the IAVA high school students and the police. From the Sifpom they hope that the trade union center will express its support for the workers.
The union president, Patricia Rodríguezsaid to The Observer that “it calls his attention” that Sena has “so many prejudices and discrimination towards police work” because, according to what he said, the student participated in a union training course that the current dictated PIT CNT articulationwhere there were other policemen, and there he said, according to Rodríguez’s version, that he wanted to know more about the work of the officers.
“We are going to ask that Articulation rule on the matter, to express himself in favor of the fact that there is a violation of the right of police officers who are continually insulted. We are not going to allow silence in the face of a worker who is being insulted,” Rodríguez said, adding: “The adults here have to intervene, take charge.”
This Friday, while the students were demonstrating outside the Codicen, Sena told Telemundo that in a “totally peaceful demonstration, students were violated by the police” and said that “a classmate for removing a tire, which had already been delivered, they hit him. They hit a partner. We are talking about the fact that in the middle of 2023, the police are repressing underage students and that cannot be allowed.”
Asked about it, Rodríguez denied the student’s statements. The police “have treated them as if they were their children,” he said and considered that Sena “is being used as a handle because it works for some sectors. If you listen to the dialect, what they say, it doesn’t seem like it was a claim from the IAVA. It already seems like a political act,” he concluded.
In the same sense, Sifpom’s lawyer expressed himself, Andres Ojedawho wrote on his Twitter account that the police had “a conciliatory, patient and educational role” with the IAVA students.
In an exchange between Sena and a police official registered this Friday by Underlined, the student responded to the police, who asked him to allow the circulation of the vehicles: “It’s not the fight measure joke. We understand his point of view but it is a measure of struggle “. The police replied that it was not his” point of view “but that it is determined by the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC). “The LUC does not represent me and I think it does not represent anyone here, because it was super unfair”answered Sena
On this, the Minister of Education and Culture, Pablo da Silveira responded on his Twitter account that “”Laws do not exist to represent us. They exist so that we respect them while they are in force, and thus organize coexistence. If each one decides which laws he respects and which he does not, there can be no freedom or mutual respect. He just wins the strongest.”
