Pinamar: Tourists prevented police from seizing a seller’s merchandise

In the last hours a video circulates on social networks, about the actions of a group of people who are vacationing on the beaches of Pinamar and this afternoon prevented the merchandise from being seized from a street vendor of churros. In the images we see the screams, pushes, complaints and joint actions of the people crowded there who tried to mediate with the staff of the Municipality, who were determined to steal the merchandise in question.

Inspectors from the Municipality of Pinamar wanted to take the basket of churros from a street vendor on the beach and people managed to avoid it. pic.twitter.com/LAHLzrN85R — (@AloFormosa)
January 13, 2022

After the incident, the mayor of the city, Martín Yeza, spoke out about what happened and tried to justify the actions of his employees. Using social networks, Yeza explained the reasons for the police action and the guidelines that must be met to carry out street vending on the beaches under his jurisdiction. “A video of a group of people who sought to prevent a control agent from withholding the merchandise of a street vendor without permission went viral. I want to explain the reasons,” he began writing on his social networks. Street vending is allowed, but it has a system that seeks the balance between there being an offer and that at the same time the beach is not a shout of offers “Ice cream, ice cream!”. We want people to come and rest.”

A video of a group of people who sought to prevent a control agent from withholding the merchandise of a street vendor without permission went viral.
I want to explain the reasons: — Martín Yeza (@martinyeza)
January 13, 2022

Then he spoke of the conditions of bromatology that food must meet and on this he remarked: “there is a central issue and that is that of bromatological care. About that sale of food, without a license, we do not know under what conditions they were produced and perhaps you are giving it to your children. That’s why we take care of them.”

1) Street vending is allowed, but it has a system that seeks the balance between there being an offer and that at the same time the beach is not a shout of offers “Ice cream, ice cream!”. We want people to come and rest. — Martin Yeza (@martinyeza)
January 13, 2022

2) with the previous point they may not agree, but there is a central issue and that is that of bromatological care. About that sale of food, without a license, we do not know under what conditions they were produced and perhaps you are giving it to your children. That’s why we take care of them. — Martin Yeza (@martinyeza)
January 13, 2022

Finally he showed a photo of the hand of the officer who was present at the frustrated procedure, where some injuries that he received from tourists are seen. 

3) If it is for jobs in Pinamar there are many jobs, but the two control agents were scratched for preventing them from withholding merchandise of dubious origin. I thank the agents for the work they did, hopefully they will receive the apologies. pic.twitter.com/cvGpYv8giF — Martín Yeza (@martinyeza)
January 13, 2022

Original source in Spanish