As recorded on social media and in official communiqués, thousands of people were arrested for breaching the mandatory and preventive isolation provided by the President of the Nation following the progress of the cases of coronavirus COVID-19. This time, more than 300 people were registered in Santa Fe. This time, the provincial security minister, Marcelo Sain, expressed on social media as was the first day of the measure. “Until 0 a.m. last night, different units of the Santa Fe Province Police apprehended or arrested 198 people for violating social, preventive and compulsory isolation,” he said.
Between 0 a.m. and 8 a.m., 109 people were apprehended by provincial police for violating preventive and compulsory social isolation—Marcelo Fabián Sain (@marcelo_sain)
March 21, 2020
“In some regions, the Prosecutor or the Prosecutor ordered that they be notified only to return home and, in others, to be taken in the patrol car to the house. Between 0 a.m. and 8 a.m., 109 people were apprehended by provincial police for violating preventative and mandatory social isolation,” he closed with a total of 307 arrests. As detailed about some of the particular situations, there are 44 people who were arrested in the town of San Lorenzo for participating in a picnic, and four of them were minors.
After it, an audio was leaked from the aforementioned Saín in which he vehemently expressed how to act. “We have to be tough against those who fail with this quarantine, because in several days there will be dead here,” said the minister of security of the province, Marcelo Saín. “The rule of law is not being soft with the law. It’s being tough in law enforcement,” he added. In part of the audio that arrived daily La Capital, the official emphasized that “the Santa Fe Police has the historic opportunity to fulfill a role that puts it in a place of trust and social prestige”.
