The mayor of Montevideo in use of license and presidential candidate for the Frente Amplio (FA), Carolina Cosseassured that the proposal of the senator and presidential candidate of the National Party (PN), Jorge Gandinito take out the military to the street is “nonsense.”
After the massacre in the Maracaná neighborhood on Thursday, which left four dead and one seriously injured, the nationalist pre-candidate revived this weekend his idea that the National Army deploy forces on the streets of vulnerable neighborhoods in the metropolitan area and the interior of the country to carry out tasks to support the National Police in the fight against insecurity.
This Sunday, consulted about it within the framework of the 93rd annual meeting of the Agrarian Development and Defense Society, the Frente Agrarian candidate responded bluntly: “It’s nonsense. Nonsense.”
Cosse went further and said that “since we are so worried and the security situation is so serious, what happens is that nonsense begins to appear on the table.” “People are so desperate,” she pointed out.
“I realize (that) since there is no strategy, there is no direction, anyone proposes: this is with military on the street, this is with a super commando, this is with a heavy hand. “None of that is working,” he remarked in reference to the initiative of the also nationalist candidate Álvaro Delgado to create a “multi-force group” if he comes to power.
“They tell me that the military must be taken to the streets”
It is not the first time that Gandini proposes that Armed Forces (FFAA) move on to urban action, since in January he had announced that he would carry out this if elected president. “The stallholders stop me and tell me: you are right, we have to take out the military to the street,” he emphasized last Saturday.
In May, the Commander in Chief of the Army, Mario Stevenazziwarned that the military They are trained in the use of high-firepower weapons. “We are professionals to fulfill the task of national defense, we are trained for that,” he explained and added: “In case (of) any decision is made, this is what we know how to use. I say this fundamentally so that the effect can be visualized and Afterwards there is no soldier, no lieutenant who is accused.”
Source: Ambito
