Circulated on social media and local media that a woman was arrested last Friday in the town of Azul, Buenos Aires Province, for having insulted the president of the nation, Mauricio Macri, during an official visit with governor bonaere Maria Eugenia Vidal. Indeed, from the Ministry of Security of Bonaerense they informed this – which can also be seen in a video from a local media – and noted that, after taking a statement from him at the First Police Station, the woman was released on the day of her arrest. From the Court in the Correctional Court No. 1 of Blue also confirmed this. What’s circulating on social media
Different users of Facebook (1.9 thousand shares) and Twitter shared the information, while a tweet from C5N journalist Juan Amorín reached 2.8 thousand retweets. In addition, the note of the local medium Radio Azul came to have almost 25 thousand interactions, according to CrowdTangle – a tool used for media the viralization of content circulating on social networks. The information also circulated among WhatsApp users, who sent it to the Reverso number for verification.
In a video, published by the Verte de Olavarría channel – one of Reverso’s 124 allied media – you can see and hear a woman screaming as two cops take her away: “We want to work. Sources of work are needed. You sons of bitches. People are starving.” The audiovisual piece also circulated on Twitter and has more than 3,000 reproductions.
What happened
According to the police part sent by the Ministry of Security to Reverso, Fernanda Marsicano was arrested in Alfredo Prat street between Moreno and De Paula as part of the visit of President Macri and the Governor to the work of expansion and remodeling of the Hospital Zonal Specialized Materno Infantil “Argentina Diego” of the city of Azul.
The police part sent by the provincial Ministry of Security.
“On arrival of the presidential entourage, (Marsicano) began to utter all kinds of insults towards them, trying to surpass the existing fence,” reads on the official part of the portfolio led by the Bonaerense security minister and pre-candidate for deputy Christian Ritondo. It then continues: “Legal relawing was completed, same with house arrest, at the disposal of a magistrate, intervening,” Aníbal Alvarez. The party is signed by Commissioner Inspector Daniel Otero, head of the Blue Department, who took over last April as you can see here. Marsicano was arrested for a contravention that is typified in the Provincial Code of Fouls, where article 74 states: “They will be fined between 15 and 40% of the monthly hader of the security officer of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires and / or arr this 2 to 30 days, those who individually or in groups, in a public place or open to the public, utter cries, gather tumultuously, insult, threaten or provoke in any way.” This provision was established by a decree issued in 1978, that is during the military dictatorship, and has not been amended since. Asked by Reverso on the fact, from the Court of Correctional No. 1 of Azul intervening in the case confirmed that the detention had been for the contravention and that “because it is this type of crime does not intervene the prosecutor, the prosecutor intervenes directly the Judged”. They recalled that after Marsicano was given a statement last Friday at the First Police Station in that City, the woman was released from prison at around 8 p.m. “We are waiting for the police station to send the file for the judge on duty, Hector Torrens, to take a view of the cause,” they added. For his part, the mayor of Azul, Hernán Bertellys (Citizen Unit), told this medium that he would not make statements about it. The woman arrested for insulting officials is the wife of a former worker of the Blue Powder and Explosives Military Factory (Fanazul), of the state-owned company Military Manufacturing, which has been dormled since 2017, as the former intervener explained in this interview Luis Riva, and in 2018 had its final closure. According to the local media outlet Diario Tiempo, more than 200 people were left out of work because of the closure of that state factory. An unrespected ban
Macri and Vidal visited last Friday the work of expansion and remodeling of the provincial hospital “Argentina Diego”. According to article 64 of the National Electoral Code, 25 days after the 11 August primary elections is prohibited “any act of government that may promote the recruitment in favour of any of the candidates for national elective public office, or the groups they compete for.” That 25-day limit was met on Friday and during the visit, as can be read in the official gacetilla, both Macri and Vidal mentioned works performed in their speeches.” The Electoral Code does not only speak of the opening of works but also prohibits doing any kind of act that promotes the vote. This was a President’s visit with a Governor to a work of a state institution and there was a campaign ing, that is, everything that prohibits the law,” he concluded to Reverso Pablo Secchi, executive director of Poder Ciudadano, the Argentine chapter of the NGO Transparency International.This note is part of Reverso, the collaborative journalistic project that joins more than 100 media and technology companies, including Filo.News, to intensify the fight against disinformation during the campaign.
Authors: Matías Di Santi and Rosario MarinaEdition: Laura Zommer and Cecilia ScholarshipIn this note:
