He Left and Workers Front (FIT) will be mobilized today to the courts of Commodore Py to demand the acquittal of two militants who were convicted of acts of violence during the protests that took place in December 2017 in the vicinity of the Congress.
Is about Cesar Arakaki y daniel ruizwho were sentenced in 2021 for acts of violence during a protest in 2017 while the Congress debated the pension reform project promoted by the Government of Mauricio Macri.
At that time, the judge Javier Feliciano Riosowner of Federal Criminal Oral Court 3sentenced Arakaki to three years and four months in prison Ruiz three years of effective compliance. The magistrate considered that both were co-perpetrators of injuries on the occasion of aggression, public intimidation and attack against authority aggravated by having been committed at armed hand.
According to telamthe mobilization of FIT will begin at 9:30 a.m. Obelisk and will arrive in front of the federal courts of Withdrawal when the Chamber of Cassation start a hearing virtually to resolve the appeal of the sentence that weighs on these two militants.
Through a statement, Arakaki He maintained: “I am innocent, those of us who fight for just causes are innocent and they persecute us because they want to give a message, to scare those who organize for what corresponds to them.”
In this sense, he added: “It is not fair that I have to go back to jail for a crime that the prosecutor Juan García Elorrio wants to attribute to me when there is ample evidence that it is not the case. In fact, the policeman himself withdrew from the case when he exposed the videos”.
For his part, the presidential candidate of the FIT and national leader of Labor Party, gabriel solanoconsidered that “what they are doing to our comrades is part of a campaign in favor of the criminalization of protest that continues to this day.”
In this way, the legislator pointed out: “They persecute the compañeros as a way of hitting a huge popular reaction that was the days of December 2017.”
