Buenos Aires. One dead, several injured and six detainees was the result of an unusual attack by the Buenos Aires city police this Thursday against a group of about 30 militants from two social organizations, Rebelión Popular and Votamos Luchar, while they were holding an assembly in a small square in front of the Obelisk, without blocking any street, with calls to vote blank in the primary elections, known as PASO, this Sunday.
When they finished their meeting and began to leave, a group of police officers reached that point, beating two women for no reason, and when the activists tried to defend them, the uniformed officers acted with extreme violence and formed a circle where they took the detainees. , who were thrown face down to the ground, had their hands tied behind their backs and were mistreated all the time.
Photojournalist and activist Facundo Molares Schoenfeld, 48, was beaten until he fell unconscious, for which the police were asked to call an ambulance, which took 40 minutes, and it was impossible to revive him in the hospital.
The director of the Buenos Aires Emergency Medical Care System, Alberto Crescenti, pointed out that the “decompensation” suffered by Morales could be due to a massive heart attack and that his team did not see blows “under any point of view.”
The events at the Obelisk were repudiated by human rights organizations, politicians, and social organizations, and last night there was a vigil to protest the death of Molares, the injured and detainees, and to reject the actions of the Buenos Aires city police, whose chief of government is the right-wing Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.
Molares died as a result of the repression of the city police against a demonstration at the Obelisk,” wrote the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) on the Twitter network, now baptized X.
Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo joined in with a message of “repudiation of the brutal repression of the City Police that caused the death of Facundo Molares.”
The photographer’s story is very special because he traveled to Bolivia in 2019 to cover the coup against President Evo Morales and was shot three times while photographing the forces that repressed the population.
Wounded, he was taken to a clinic where he was kept in an induced coma for 23 days. His father began a strong fight to bring him to Argentina, in which local media and journalists participated, due to the seriousness of the consequences, with serious kidney problems in addition to almost completely losing vision in his right eye.
Simultaneously, there was another act of repression by the Buenos Aires police, who used gas and fired rubber bullets in Constitución to dispel a protest by workers at the train terminal that goes to the south of the province of Buenos Aires, and against the angry passengers. that they could not board the transport to return to their homes.
Meanwhile, the leaders of Tercer Malón de la Paz continue tied to the bars that surround the Palace of Courts, trying to get the Supreme Court to resolve the situation of unconstitutionality of the reform of the Constitution of Jujuy, imposed by Governor Gerardo Morales.
In addition, a journalist and photographer was fined for covering police repression in the Jujuy town of Pumamarca, and there are other threats pending against protesters.
This accumulation of violent acts provoked by police forces occurs just three days before the Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primary elections (PASO), where the candidates for the presidency of each of the parties that will participate in the elections of the October 23 next.
