Relatives of victims, legislators of the Front of All (FdT) and social organizations They demanded this Monday in front of the Buenos Aires Legislature that a law against institutional violence be debated and approved, which, among other points, provides for the creation of centers for receiving complaints, a specific registry for this type of crime and training in human rights for the City Police.
The project of a “comprehensive law against institutional violence” It was presented in May 2021 by the legislator Lucía Cámpora (FdT) and bears the signatures of her fellow members María Bielli, Ofelia Fernández, Victoria Montenegro, Laura Velasco, the legislator Claudio Morresi and the legislator Lorena Pokoik.
The initiative proposes to create complaint reception centers attended by personnel other than the police and a registry of institutional violence that is in charge of classifying the complaints that occurred in the area of the City of Buenos Aires.
In addition, it establishes human rights training processes for the City Police and includes “minimum rules” for the participation of this force in public demonstrations, as well as “principles” on the use of firearms.
In dialogue with Télam, Claudia Noemi Castro, mother of Luis Antonio Acostawhose murder, which occurred in 2003, was covered up by police officers, said that the approval of this law is necessary because “the police are getting worse and worse, they have no experience” and their officers “are not trained.”
Castro is a member of Mothers in Struggleone of the organizations that participated in the conference held in front of the Legislature, in Peru 160, which included a photographic exhibition and an open radio.
Dolores Sigampa, mother of Ezequiel Demonty, assassinated by agents of the Federal Police in 2002, he participated in the open radio and there he assured that “the boys and girls of the popular neighborhoods continue to be tortured and assassinated by blacks, by poor people and for carrying their faces.”
The Association of Argentine Prostitute Women (Ammar) also participated in the activity, denouncing the “criminalization” of their work and claiming that every day they experience police violence “in their own flesh.”
Other organizations that adhered to the project of a comprehensive law against institutional violence are La Nelly Omar, Casa Diversidad Trans Villera, CTA Youth, Identidad Brown, Migrant Forum, Association of Senegalese Residents in Argentina and the Chair against Institutional Violence of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
The photographic exhibition mounted in front of the Buenos Aires Parliament included images of the faces of several victims of institutional violence, including Miguel Bru and Camila Arjona.
Other points of the initiative provide assistance and reparation to victims and families.
