After the threat against Messi, Kirchnerisme seeks to reactivate a project that has been slowed down to deal with escalating narco

There drug threat who suffered the family of Antonela Roccuzzoa pair of Lionel Messi, caused a stir in the national government. Alberto Fernández communicated today with his Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández, and with the Chief of Staff, Agustín Rossi, to find ways to tackle the problem.

“I told him – Rossi – that we should do something else. We are doing a lot, but obviously something more will have to be done. The problem of violence and organized crime is very serious,” the president said this afternoon.

Almost simultaneously, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Front de tous today relaunched negotiations and debate on a bill It had been months without registering any progress.

The president of the Justice Committeethe kirchnerist Rodolfo Tailhadeconvened a meeting for Wednesday 8 March at 11 a.m. with the Criminal Legislation Commission to take care of the projectstrengthening federal criminal justice in the province of Santa Fe”, an initiative that was a joint proposal of the deputies of different political forces of this province.

The project presented in May 2022 proposes, among other issues, the creation of 13 federal prosecutor positions, 4 defense offices and 6 federal courts in different cities of the province. He also seeks to create 6 federal criminal judge counts with review functions. In this way, it will be possible to adapt the judicial structure for the implementation of the adversarial systemwhich is already in force in Salta and Jujuy, to have a much “more agile and rapid” federal justice system.

Last year, when he was presented to the commission, he said with the support of 18 Santa Fe deputies from different political spaces. One of them was the official Roberto Mirabellewho today demanded that the Ministry of Nation’s Security move its headquarters to Rosario to “command and direct the criminal prosecution” against drug gangs.

“The 2022 budget executed for the Department of Security determines that the place where the most money was invested per capita was the federal capital, at $49,350 per capita; and the place where we invested less was the province of Santa Fe, 22 times less, with 2,224 dollars per capita,” he said on Radio 10.

For the Santa Fe legislator, this “clearly shows that the priority of the government is not in Santa Fe”, even if Rosario “quadruples the national average of homicides” and that 80% of these “have to do with settling of accounts between drug gangs”.

All parties agreed that one of the main problems of federal justice in this province is related to the lack of updating of its structure. For example, they mentioned that For 40 years a new prosecutor’s office has not been created in Rosariodespite the large increase in its population.

Before consulting GlobeLiveMediaof the opposition they celebrated the initiative although they indicated that the project He was “cajoneado” for months because of the responsibility of the ruling party.

“If today the threat against Messi’s family had not become international news, nothing else would have been said or done by Rosario,” he posted. Mario Negripresident of the UCR bloc, via social networks.

They also warned that the plenary of the committees does not include the budget, a key instance since the possible reform of the federal criminal justice will involve a considerable investment by the State. However, With the approval of the ruling party, the project should have a clear path to move forward quickly.

This morning, a supermarket belonging to the Único chain, which belongs to the family of Antonela Roccuzzo —Lionel Messi’s partner— was gunned down at 3:20 a.m. in Lavalle street, in the western part of Rosario. At the door of the premises, the radio command of the provincial police found a message addressed to the captain of the Argentine team. “Messi, we are waiting for you. Javkin is also a drug dealer, he won’t deal with you,” reads the text written in pen on a piece of cardboard, also referring to the mayor of Rosario.

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