Rosario narco: “We are afraid that a judge or a prosecutor will end up dead”, warned the president of the Association of Prosecutors

For the President of the Association of Prosecutors and Officers of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Nation, Ricardo Toranzosdrug-related violence in Santa Fe has escalated to such an extent that a scenario that has never been experienced is already being contemplated. “We are always afraid that a judge or a prosecutor will end up dead”, said in dialogue with GlobeLiveMedia. “Threats in all kinds of crimes can exist, but here the logic of habituation is outdated, threats are made without fear of consequence,” he added.

The Association, through a statement, repudiated the threats suffered last Thursday evening by the judge and federal prosecutor of Venado Tuerto, Aurelio Cuello Murua there Javier Arzubi Calvothe public prosecutor (MPA) Cucumber Suzannethe mayor of Venado Tuerto, Leonel Chiarella and provincial senator Lysander Henry. “There will be bullets for everyone,” said the threat who came to Enrico with a photo of a gun.

“These actions not only constitute serious crimes, but also constitute an inadmissible attack on the autonomy and independence of the public prosecutor’s office and on the ‘legal certainty’ which must prevail in a State of law, all the more so since this pretension to intimidate the prosecutors is already that of the judges. , as their addictions, have become a habit in the area”, declared the entity which requested that the investigations advance to find those responsible – two drug lords in the area are suspected of being in prison – and “to prevent these attacks from going unpunished”. ”

The Association of Magistrates and Magistrates Groups also spoke out to repudiate the act and called on the national government to Alberto Fernandez and that of Santa Fe of Omar Perotti that guarantee the safety of judges and prosecutors in the province. The President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Horace Rosatticommunicated yesterday to the Minister of National Security, Hannibal Fernandezwhich promised to strengthen the security of all federal judges and prosecutors in the province responsible for investigating organized crime.

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It’s not the first time this has happened. In Rosario, the city’s judicial building, the seat of federal justice, the houses of judges and prosecutors were demolished. In addition to repeated threats.

“Threats can exist in all kinds of crimes, but here the logic of habituality is outdated, threats are made without fear of consequence. They understand that bullying has no legal consequences. It ends up being like advantages of trading. It is not normal for anyone to live under threat. The same phenomenon is observed in other countries but in Argentina it is naturalizing. Threats arise every day, repudiations are made, but the order of the boarding schedule does not change. We are always afraid that a judge or a prosecutor will end up dying. In 2022, five prosecutors were murdered in Latin America,” Toranzos said.

For the President of the Association of Prosecutors, it is missing that there is no global approach to drug trafficking. “There is a certain inability to understand the phenomenon. This crime cannot be taken in isolation, rather it is a criminal act that encourages other“, he raised. “The mouth of drug sales in a neighborhood creates a feeling of violence in the place, of threats, there is competition with other sellers. This produces an atmosphere of communal irritation. On several occasions, we understood that it was a question of jurisdiction. Whether he should investigate federal or mad justice. But it’s not a jurisdictional issue. There is a lack of a global approach”, he analyzes.

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Another aspect that Toranzos pointed out is that “adding hands in an unorganized or unplanned way is not necessarily a good approach.” “The narco spends a lot in his impunity, he has a very great corrupting power. This must be balanced with strong institutions. Fighting drug trafficking without taking into account the crime of corruption is futile”, he said and also pointed out that Argentina has long since ceased to be a drug transit country: “The drug has the culture and form of execution to leave your drug in the jurisdictions you cross to pay for transportation. And where there are still a lot of drugs, it is in the cities with ports, the big cities, and therefore these are destinations and not places of transit”.

Today everyone is looking at Rosario but the prosecutor offers to widen his gaze. “There are different outbreaks in different parts of the country that are bubbling up and that can become what is happening in Rosario. The efforts of prosecutors and judges, if they are not accompanied and protected by a comprehensive approach, will have little effect. What we are demanding is a public policy which makes a diagnosis by region, which is part of a plan programmed at the national level in which border control is reinforced, the work of public officials”.

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