The words of Marcelo Villegas, former Minister of Labor of María Eugenia Vidal in the province of Buenos Aires during his government of the period 2015-2019 provoked the repudiation of the Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA). The former official of the Buenos Aires administration said in a meeting with businessmen that “if I could have – and I will deny this anywhere – if I could have a Gestapo, a force of onslaught to end all the guilds, I would do it.”
Consequently, we repudiate the statements of the former Minister of Labor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Marcelo Villegas, publicly known today, which do nothing but contradict democratic institutions and trivialize the Holocaust in an impudent way. — DAIA (@DAIAArgentina)
December 27, 2021
For the organization, the terms used by Villegas where he shows “longing for the Gestapo” are not only “brutal” but also “inadmissiblely trivialize the Shoah””These expressions are permanently fought by the democracies of the world so that such a tragedy is not repeated,” said the DAIA.
The repudiable way in which Villegas expressed himself occurred during a meeting at the Banco Provincia de La Plata in which the mayor of La Plata, Julio Garro, also participated; the former provincial infrastructure minister, Roberto Gigante; the former Undersecretary of Justice, Adrián Grassi; provincial senator Juan Pablo Allan, among others. For this reason, the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) in charge of Cristina Caamaño will file a complaint against Villegas, who is accused of setting up a judicial table to persecute unions and workers.
