“The personnel who were in the wardrobe in charge of security committed serious negligence,” said the official at a press conference held at the Chacarita Urban Monitoring Center.
Wolff reported that the portfolio that drives opened an investigation to determine if there was complicity on the part of the troops in charge of the custody of the prisoners. “The Ministry of Security is put in charge of the investigation. We are complainants and we have expressed it to the prosecutor by order of the Head of Government, ”he said
“For us until the opposite is proven is not a leak. When there is negligence or complicity it is not leakage because someone allows them to come out, ”he said. “The vast majority of our police work in a diligent way. When there is someone who does not incur one of these causes of serious negligence such as there. In case of verifying responsibility, the prosecutor will act with temperament, ”he added.
He also said that the issue of prisoners is a problem “inherited from the previous government” that the current management is in the process of solving it. “At the moment it is not enough, but last year we had 35% more detainees and there is nowhere to put them in the city of Buenos Aires. The city of Buenos Aires is the only one that happened in two years of having 60 prisoners in curataries to 2300, because we stop people and did not take them. We are working hard on the restructuring of the spaces we have, ”he said.
In that sense, he recalled that from the Buenos Aires government, progress is being made in the construction of Marcos Paz prison to “take prisoners that are not from the city and should not be in the city.”
Six prisoners of a Caballito police station were escaped
Earlier, the Secretary of Security of the City, Ezequiel Daglio, confirmed tonight that “there are six” the prisoners who escaped today from the 6-A Alcaidía of the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito, And he pointed out that He is investigating whether in evasion there was complicity of some police personnel. One of the fugitives was arrested for murdering a financier. Two of the criminals were recaptured.
“We are investigating whether it was a leak or if there was collusion on the part of the police personnel and that was the case it would not be a leak but opened the door,” Daglio said in statements to a news chain.
The Buenos Aires official, appointed by the Head of Government, Jorge Macri, In December 2024, he explained that all The investigation “is under summary secret”but confirmed the number of evaded and that Two were recaptured.
“What I can say is that they fled in a taxi”, which crossed the province of Buenos Aires “by Puente la Noria” So the city authorities are “in contact with the province” to coordinate the search and catch the escapees.
Who are the prisoners who escaped from a Caballito police station
Daglio said that These prisoners had pretrial detentionfor which They should not be in a warden but in a prisonand said this is “A problem that we inherit from the previous national government.”
In addition, he stressed that This leak is “the first of 2025”and that it is already advancing to investigate “if there was collusion” of police personnel to facilitate evasion.
Police sources told Argentina news that the two recaptured would have been identified as Kevin Alexander Aguilar Salazar and Brian Benítez, while The four fugitives They would be Axel Ríos, Adrián Emanuel Martín, Matías Ferrari and Eduardo Ajalla Cabera, a brave bar accused of the homicide of the financier Carlos Molina in 2021.
The This Sunday’s leak adds to three who had already occurred in Buenos Aires territory in 2024the most popular of them in December at a police station in Liniers, of which They evaded 17 prisoners of high dangerin consequences of which the dome of the city police was relieved.
Source: Ambito
