The Minister of Security insisted on the version given by an official in her area and the chief of police. However, the images of the moment contradict her.
Security Minister Patricia Bullrich has rejected reports that the police were responsible for the tear gas attack on a minor.
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The Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrich, denied on Thursday that an officer of the Federal Police has thrown Tear gas against a girl during the operation deployed this Wednesday in front of the Congress with which he repressed protesters who rejected the veto of Javier Milei to the pension reform. A video of the moment refutes the version of the national official.
Although the minister tried to justify the police action, the violent situation unleashed a crisis in the portfolio she leads and in the Federal Police. At this time, the continuity of the Secretary of Security, Alejandra Monteoliva, and the head of the force, general commissioner Luis Rollé, were left on the tightrope.
“We were faced with a situation that we knew was going to explode into violence the moment it did,” Bullrich explained in a telephone conversation with journalist Eduardo Feinmann, who told him that the officers threw gas at a minor, as seen in the images that went viral.
Patricia Bullrich on the repression in front of Congress: “Nobody gassed a girl”
Minister Bullrich insisted on the version spread by Monteoliva and Rollé and assured that “Nobody gassed a girl”. And after watching the video of the moment, he justified himself: “That’s not gassing a girl.. The police are advancing and what they are doing is pushing the girl back and throwing tear gas at those who had fired a bullet.”
However, the journalist insisted on the accusation: “No, there is an officer pointing at the girl and the mother”“That is trying to put the police in a place where they are not. The police are under constant tension all day long in the face of the constant attempts at violence they suffer,” responded the head of the security portfolio.
Bullrich again accused the mother of the minor who was tear-gassed in front of Congress
The minister also took the opportunity to disassociate herself from the circulation of the video of the moment when the minor is sprayed with gas“The Ministry of National Security did not send any video to anyone. The tweet that I sent only describes a situation regarding the mother’s irresponsibility and in no way did we carry out any type of operation.”
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With this he referred to the message he wrote on social network X after the strong repression, with which he criticized the girl’s mother: “The responsibility of taking a 10-year-old girl to a march surrounded by violent people is the responsibility of this irresponsible mother.”
But the journalist retorted this statement and upset her: “Do you know who sent the video? Alejandro Rollé, your police chief.” After remaining silent, the minister managed to answer: “I just found out about that right now.”
Source: Ambito
