The Justice Department will investigate the police action in the repression of the June protests against the Bases law

The federal prosecutor Franco Picardi, in charge of the investigation, arranged a battery of measures of test to investigate a series of complaints about the task of the uniformed personnel in the mobilization in rejection of the sanction of the government’s project Javier Milei.

The C5N journalist, Ariel Zak, announced the news on the program Minuto Uno.Members of parliament attacked with tear gas and rubber bullets, attacks on the press, a car set on fire for which no one was held accountable… There were several separate complaints, but now all of this appears in the same file and is being investigated by the prosecutor,” he said.

Among the measures he arranged, Picardi asked that All members of the security forces are identified federal security forces who participated in the violent repression in the Plaza de los dos Congresos. “The prosecutor is investigating whether there was institutional violenceviolations of the human rightsattack on protesters, and if the population was prohibited from using their right to demonstrate on the streets,” Zak added.

The case, which passed through several judges and prosecutors, was accumulated in the court of Maria Romilda ServiniThe prosecutor was Carlos Stornelli, but after being challenged he was removed from the investigation. Currently, the case file is in the hands of Picardi.

Repression against protesters and deputies during the debate on the Bases law

That afternoon of June 12, in the vicinity of Congress there was a Major repressive deployment against protesters that were concentrated to reject the Basic Law which was debated in the Senate. There was Journalists, protesters and deputies injured and 33 arrestedaccording to the Ministry of National Security.

The repression began around 1:30 p.m. At that time, unions, social and political organizations gathered in a large gathering that filled the Plaza de los Dos Congresos. After a morning full of tension, the security forces advanced on the protesters with infantry and tear gas. In response, incidents began where people with their faces covered burned cars, public bicycles and destroyed parts of the area.

Police attacked protesters and pepper-sprayed deputies Eduardo Valdes, Carlos Castagnetto, Leopoldo Moreau, Juan Manuel Pedrini, Carolina Yutrovic and Luis Basterra. According to information obtained by Ámbito, the UP deputies were treated in the infirmary of Congress. They were repressed at the door of the legislative palace when they tried to get to the rally, witnesses said.

Deputy Luis Basterra was rushed to the Santa Lucía Hospital. Meanwhile, the rest of the legislators were treated in the Congressional infirmary. The legislators were holding an event when clashes occurred between federal forces, who threw pepper spray, and protesters near the legislative building.

Last week, after more than two months, the Federal Court of Buenos Aires ordered the release of the last of the 33 detainees that the case had, thus dismantling the thesis of the Government and the then prosecutor of the case, Stornelli, who claimed to have attempted a coup. Only five people were prosecuted for minor offences.