Attacks on shops: the Minister of Security ruled out that they are looting

The Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández, ruled out that the recent criminal episodes registered in supermarkets and shops in Mendoza and Córdoba are looting motivated by the urgency to cover basic needs. It is not because of hunger,” the official emphasized, while detecting “the attitude of generating a criminal act that brings more confusion.” “They have not been looting but an action that attracts attention. There is no social problem to take care of and attend,” he said. At a press conference, Fernandez said that “someone is encouraging” these events and “looking for some alternative that has nothing to do with looting.” “It’s a vocation to encourage conflict.” “Since last week we have detected some attempt to arm, through WhatsApp, facts of some characteristic,” he said. “We have had an incident at 1-11-14, an attempt to rob a premises, the neighbors prevented it and the Gendarmerie reacted quickly,” he said. According to the head of the Security portfolio, it is a small band, with little level of organization, but with a vocation to generate conflict. Another of the officials of the national cabinet who referred to these recent episodes was the chief of staff -and candidate for vice president for Union for the Fatherland-, Agustín Rossi, who stressed that there is no “social reaction but facts that deserve the full weight of the law” and clarified that there are detainees, with antecedents. ” We were aware the same Friday. It happened first in Mendoza and then in Río Cuarto and last night in the 1 – 11 – 14. In all cases, the Ministry of National Security and provincial authorities are working,” Rossi said. And he concluded: “There are detainees by the police and judicial authority and many of the organizers are citizens who had a background. We do not see in that a social reaction but facts that deserve the full weight of the law.”

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