While he is hosting Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who is campaigning on the coast instead of working in the city and who did not ask for a vacation to do so, Martín Yeza got into a new unnecessary controversy by himself.
That the security forces do their job and arrest a person who is committing an offense is hard to fault. But that the mayor celebrate the fact with the phrase “We continue to stop full rags ” sounds a bit strange. Especially since they arrested only 15 kids who were trying to earn a buck taking care of cars.
The lawyer and former prosecutor Javier Ignacio Baños filed a complaint against the mayor of Pinamar, Martín Yezafor the “possible commission of crimes of public action”, among them, abuse of authority and incitement to violence, after the community chief wrote a tweet “with a pejorative and discriminatory charge”, he said, towards the workers known as ” rags”.
The lawyer maintained that “if such a publication is true”, Yeza “could be committing multiple crimes” and incurring in “ethical misconduct and administrative irregularities” that “they break with the principle of division of powers and constitute a serious attack against the constitutional public order of this state”.
Morón’s lawyer and ex-prosecutor explained that a communal chief “cannot detain people”, since if he did so he would be committing “a manifest illegality” and would go “against the division of powers” which establishes that the only one who can order an arrest is the Judge of Guarantees, as established in the Code of Criminal Procedure of Buenos Aires. “The law establishes a lot of requirements to search and detain. There are only certain urgent cases that warrant it,” he said.
But the mayor of Pinamar, clearly unaware of the grounds of the accusation, reacted by downplaying it.
