The Front of All (FdT) and the Left presented this Friday in the Buenos Aires Legislature two requests for interpellation to the Minister of Justice and Security of the city, Marcelo D’Alessandro, for the case of Lucas González, the teenager who died on Thursday after being shot by members of the City Police in the Barracas neighborhood, while the demands of social, human rights and Church organizations that warn about the institutional violence and they demand actions from the head of the Buenos Aires government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
“Cite the Minister of Justice and Security of the CABA, Marcelo D ‘Alessandro (…) to report on the circumstances, responsibilities, actions or omissions incurred by the City Police in the events that took place on Wednesday 17 of November “, says the request presented by the FdT.
There, he points out that, in those events, “a group of young people in the Barracas neighborhood were persecuted, shot and detained, one of whom later died from injuries inflicted by members of the force under his charge.”
Meanwhile, the presentation of the Left made by deputy Amanda Martín set next Thursday, November 25, as the date for the convocation.
“Call on the Minister of Justice and Security, Marcelo D’Alessandro, to attend the Legislature on November 25 to respond to the facts related to the murder of Lucas González by the City Police,” says the presentation of Martín.
On the grounds, he adds that “the police version is that there was a ‘confrontation’, but he warned that this argument” falls under its own weight “because” the boys were unarmed, although the Larreta police say they have found a toy gun in the car they were in. “
From the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), specified that “the non-identification of the police in a procedure and the lack of use of the corresponding uniform is allowed, as long as a judge or a superior orders it, although, even in that case, it is part of the practices of the ‘old federal police’ ”.
“The famous brigades against robbery, theft and drugs were people who were without uniforms, supposedly because they carry out investigation tasks, but they also participated in other types of activities,” he said.
In that sense, a request for the “Prohibition of the Buenos Aires Police to act without uniform and official mobiles“Up to this afternoon, it was gathering 5,853 signatures on the Internet platform Change.org, within the framework of an initiative that it considered as” fundamental that to prevent the Lucas tragedy from happening again, the Buenos Aires Police forcefully wear a uniform “and” that citizens can identify that a police officer is approaching and not an armed civilian. “
Meanwhile, the organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo said: “Lucas González was killed by the Police. Enough of the easy trigger. Justice for Lucas. We accompany his family and friends in their pain and complaint”.
The National Committee for the Prevention of Torture also requested “a prompt investigation of what happened, in strict adherence to the ‘Minesotta Protocol’ on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Deaths of the United Nations, and the corresponding sanction to those responsible.”
The team of Priests for the Villages and Popular Neighborhoods of the City and the province of Buenos Aires demanded “justice” and they also asked the head of the Buenos Aires government to “substantially rethink the criteria for training the Police under his charge.”
“We are moved by the murder of Lucas González, a teenager whose only ‘crime’ in quotation marks was wanting to grow up as a soccer player in a club in the town and take his friends to test so that they have a better life,” said the priests from the village through a statement.
For their part, in a statement, Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo Founder Line, Relatives of the disappeared and detained for political reasons, HIJOS Capital, the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (APDH), the Center for Legal Studies and (CELS), the North Zone Memory Truth and Justice Commission, the Argentine League for Human Rights, Relatives and Companions of the 12 of the Holy Cross, the Argentine Historical and Social Memory Foundation, the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (APDH ) La Matanza, the Ecumenical Movement for Human Rights and the Good Memory Association demanded to identify “the hierarchical and political responsible for the criminal actions of their agents.”
“We demand the immediate arrest of those responsible for this execution, who are still at large. The murder of Lucas González is part of extreme violence practices by the Buenos Aires police, which in its short history accumulates episodes of abuse of force and repression in the public space “, maintained the organizations.
And in this sense, it is noted that “different political leaders have encouraged the use of violence, calling for a strong hand, endorsing and congratulating the abuse, excess and disproportion in the use of lethal power. These well-tested policies have always failed in relation to with the objectives that declaim “.
“Against the law, they only bring executions, torture, mistreatment and limitation of rights for certain sectors of our community. We embrace Lucas’s family and make ourselves available to accompany his fight for truth and justice. Never again hate . Silence never again. Enough of an easy trigger, “the agencies pointed out.
Also the Central de los Trabajadores Argentina (CTA), headed by deputy Hugo Yasky, repudiated and condemned the “brutal murder at close range” of Lucas González, who was “killed by a bullet in the head by a crew of the Police of the City under the command of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta “.
In a statement, the CTA remarked that “all the testimonies, including those of the three survivors, point to the Buenos Aires police officers who, in the Barracas neighborhood, murdered in cold blood, in the best style of the dark Chocobar doctrine claimed by Patricia Bullrich , to a defenseless kid who had not committed any other crime than that, a kid who came from playing soccer with his teammates. “
“All the testimonies, including those of the three survivors, point to the Buenos Aires police officers who murdered in cold blood, in the best style of the dark Chocobar doctrine claimed by Patricia Bullrich”Communiqué of the Central of the Argentine Workers
Given this fact, the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation, Horacio Pietragalla Corti, considered that “institutional violence and easy trigger” are the “debts” that the State of the dictatorship carries and indicated that these types of practices, such as those carried out by the Buenos Aires police, are those that were carried out during the dictatorship and listed: “civilian cars, civilian agents, arbitrarily, the media giving erroneous information.”
In this regard, the spokeswoman for the Presidency, Gabriela Cerruti, said that the State must “end institutional violence” and criticized the speeches of “lynching” by leaders and the media.
Asking for bullet and death only empowers killers.
And bullets and death end in the least expected heart.
The state is responsible for ending institutional violence.
And the leaders and the media to end the lynching speeches.– Gabriela Cerruti (@gabicerru) November 19, 2021
Through the social network Twitter, the official pointed out that “asking for a bullet and death only empowers murderers” and that “bullets and death end in the least expected heart.”
Likewise, the Minister of National Security, Aníbal Fernández, said that “there is a law in the City of Buenos Aires, 5.685, Article 85, which prevents them from doing all that they did”.
“They were in an unidentifiable car, without patents, three people in civilian clothes, they followed some boys who stopped to buy a juice. They came to play soccer. It is inconceivable that there is such a great gesture of institutional violence,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Tourism and Sports, Matías Lammens, considered that “the political arc should be a little more reflective when it comes to talking about security”, and considered that there are sectors that address the issue from a “very irresponsible” position .
“It is very sad that a kid who came from playing football ends up in this way, a victim of those who should be there to take care of him. There must be a rethinking of these things in the City of Buenos Aires, Lammens said in statements to Télam.
Lucas González, 17, who was shot in the head and later died, in an alleged case of “easy trigger” committed by city policemen who – dressed in civilian clothes and aboard a private vehicle – intercepted him when he was traveling with three friends in a car on the way back from the club where he played in the lower ranks.
Lucas González, 17, who was shot in the head and later died, in an alleged case of “easy trigger” committed by city policemen who – dressed in civilian clothes and aboard a private vehicle – intercepted him when he was traveling with three friends in a car on the way back from the club where he played in the lower ranks.
A mass for Lucas
They held a mass in memory of Lucas González in a parish in the Barrio 21-24 of Barracas
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Dozens of residents of Barracas participated this Friday afternoon in a mass in memory of Lucas González.
The ceremony was held at 5:00 p.m. in the Virgen de los Milagros de Caacupé Parish, located at 3400 Osvaldo Cruz Street, in said neighborhood in the southern part of the City of Buenos Aires.
Once the mass began, the priest of the parish, Lorenzo “Toto” de Vedia, read a document from the Team of Priests for the Villages and Popular Neighborhoods of the City and the province of Buenos Aires, in which they say they are “totally moved “For the crime of the adolescent, for whom they demanded justice.”
Meanwhile, one of the neighbors carried a handwritten sign with the phrase: “We ask for justice for Lucas González, victim of the easy trigger of the Police. We don’t want any more Lucas please. We ask for justice ”.
After the completion of the reading of the document by “Toto” Vedia, the neighbors present applauded the priest.
