There were moments of high tension between the Suntma workers and the police officers after the latter ordered the road to be released.
The headquarters of Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) in Ciudad Vieja witnessed moments of high tension between the Single Union of Sea Workers and Related Workers (Suntma) and the Policewhile the tripartite negotiation between the government, companies and the Maritime Inter-Union of Uruguay.
The conflict broke out this morning after the police ordered the Suntma workers to free the road within 5 minutes, this order being rejected by the fishing boats and triggering the confrontation that left some injured by rubber bullets.
From the Ministry of Interiorassured that some of the protesters who were on Juancal Street reacted “violently” against the police officers, so at 11:30 a.m. a shock team had to intervene to “free up half the road.”
“In some cases, less than lethal ammunition had to be used to disperse said protesters, which caused damage to two police vehicles and a 23-year-old police officer suffered an injury to one of his arms,” they explained from the Interior.
“A police officer shot me from about three meters away”
Sergio Sommarugaa private education union leader, told the press that he was shot three times in the left leg after approaching to “defuse” the situation.
“I went to accompany the coordination of maritime workers who have been locked out by the employers for six months. I was already leaving, when I saw incidents and pushes, I turned around and went to calm down. A policewoman shot me about three meters away,” he said. the union leader who added: “I don’t know what happened to this person.” In addition to Sommaruga, a Channel 4 cameraman was also injured.
He president of the PIT-CNT, Marcelo Abdala, stated through his From the union center they issued a statement in which they “emphatically reject and condemn the acts of police repression carried out by the government against a demonstration of fishing workers.”
Source: Ambito
