National representative Marcela Pagano filed a criminal complaint against officials of the City of Buenos Aires for the alcohol control operation on officials of the Russian Embassy. Patricia Bullrich endorsed the actions of the Buenos Aires agents and warned that the Vienna Convention was not violated.
The alcohol test that Buenos Aires police tried to perform on Russian diplomats generated internal short circuits in the ruling party, where conflicting positions appear. While the Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich supported the police control, the representative of La Libertad Avanza (LLA) Marcela Pagano filed a complaint for a possible plot.
Diplomatic conflict escalates with Russia based on a criminal complaint filed by Paganagainst officials of the government of the City of Buenos Aires for the crimes of breach of duties as a public official (art. 248 of the Penal Code) and abuse of authority (art. 249 of the Penal Code).
The legislator, president of the Parliamentary Group of Friendship with the Russian Federation in the Chamber of Deputies, criminally denounced Darío Antiñolo, Undersecretary of Transit; and Leandro Ricciardi, General Director of the Corps of Traffic Agents “who could intervene before, during or after the events, either for the commission of crimes, to destroy evidence or cover up criminal acts.”
Patricia Bullrich’s position
The criminal complaint appears on the same day that Patricia Bullrich, Minister of National Securitycame out to confirm that the CABA traffic agents did not violate the Vienna Convention in relation to the immunities of diplomats when trying to carry out a breathalyzer test on two officials of the Russian Embassy. “Traffic control is not a police act. The prosecution, in flagrante delicto, did not allow the cars to be seized in accordance with the Vienna Convention, the cars were not seized. There was also respect because at no time was the “At no time, although it was a long process, was the Vienna Convention violated,” the minister said this Thursday in statements to the press.
Faced with resistance from diplomats Sergei Baldin and Cardmath Solomatin The Foreign Ministry intervened and contacted Bullrich to send the diplomatic security department of the Argentine Federal Police to displace the actions of the City’s traffic agents and escort foreign officials to their embassy. Since this is now a conflict between two countries, and after Russia’s complaint about the alcohol control operation, the conflict will remain under the jurisdiction of the federal justice system.
Although the Vienna Convention grants immunity from arrest and criminal trial in the country, in addition to freedom of movement, it does not exempt diplomats from complying with traffic regulations. The diplomatic circular of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship number 18 of 2022 notifies the diplomatic representations and consulates in the country that “diplomatic officials, with regard to vehicular circulation, have the same obligations as all citizens and residents in Argentina”.
Marcela Pagano denounces
However, the Deputy Pagano In his criminal complaint, he states that the control of Russian diplomats on Libertador Avenue “could have been a planned episode with the sole purpose of affecting our country’s relations with a foreign power. In the current context, the violation of international conventions such as the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations “is especially inopportune and worrying, given the complex scenario in which Argentina is demanding that other States respect the rights of their citizens abroad.”
Pagano states in the recitals of his writing that “cases such as that of gendarme Nahuel Gallo, detained in Venezuela in circumstances that have not yet been clarified, underline the relevance of reciprocity and mutual respect in diplomatic relations.” “Acting in a contrary manner puts at risk the legitimacy of the claims that the Argentine State makes in international forums,” he says. And he warns that in the specific case of Gallo, any “negligence” on the part of the Argentine government in respecting diplomatic immunity could be used as an argument by other States to justify or relativize their own non-compliance.
Source: Ambito
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