Representatives of the public and private teachers’ unions, Amsafe and Sadop, will be received tomorrow by the Security Minister, Claudio Brilloni, in the framework of the sector’s claim for the series of acts of violence that impact schools and generate concern in the communities educational. The unions were summoned for 11, at the headquarters of the Interior.
“We hope that strategies can be thought of to combat this. We do not want to naturalize the patrol cars in front of the schools,” said the head of Amsafé Rosario, Juan Pablo Casiello, who also pointed to having “a comprehensive view” of the situation. From Sadop Rosario, Martín Lucero pointed out that “schools have to remain open, be a safe and peaceful place” and that “the State has to guarantee that”.
The meeting was requested by the unions after the shootings committed on Saturday, April 8, against the José Mármol establishments, in the Ludueña neighborhood; and Rosa Ziperovich, from Empalme Graneros, where in addition to shots, the attackers left notes that were not addressed to the institutions, but rather led to the consideration “evident that they are using the schools as messengers,” Casiello said at the time.
These two episodes -one of them generated in the building where the bilingual school attended by Máximo Jerez, the 12-year-old boy murdered last March when he was left in the middle of a shootout- generated a mobilization of the educational communities to the seat of government, for security.
Days later, there were other episodes such as the one that led to an educational establishment on Carrasco and Teniente Agnetta, in Empalme, remaining closed for a day because the night before unknown persons fired bullets into the air in front of police station 20, next to school No. 1182. Saint Louis Gonzaga.
Last week, a shootout between people who were on motorcycles, near the Justo Germán Deheza school No. 114, in the Tablada neighborhood, at 4 in the afternoon, caused tension, for which many families went to look for the students before school. Closing hour.
This week, concern was raised by the attack the day before yesterday that wounded and hospitalized a father who was taking his son and a friend of his to the Miraculous Medal school, in Alberdi, when their truck was shot. The man underwent surgery yesterday and is out of danger but has other maxillofacial interventions ahead of him and a slow process of recovery from the damage caused by a projectile in the maxillary area.
This Wednesday, in the corner of that establishment there was a patrol car. The director, Luis García, said on Radio2 that it will be necessary to “create spaces to put into words what happened” with the students. “To distort what happened. Yesterday (on the day of the event) classes continued as usual, I considered that the institutional climate was set for that, but today yes, I think we have to stop the ball a bit, talk and express what has happened,” he said.
