Justice ordered expert opinions and will examine security cameras to determine if sabotage caused the massive blackout

The investigation to clarify why the gigantic blackoutwhich affected a large part of the country, advances on three hypotheses: sabotageAnd to be careless or reckless or a misfortune of the nature.

To determine which of the hypotheses is correct, and pending the expertise, the federal judge of Campana Adrian Gonzalez Charvayin charge of the investigation, ordered this morning to divert all the private or public cameras that are in this uninhabited area and to question the neighbors and the baqueanos to find out if they saw strange movements in the area, have- they revealed to GlobeLiveMedia case sources.

Yesterday, a few minutes before 4 p.m., a grass fire affected the 500 kw high voltage line that connects Campana to General Rodríguez and generated a “Load discharge from the National Interconnected System electrical network”reported Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA For safety reasons, the plant Atucha 1 is out of service.

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The cause began moments after the massive blackout with the presentation of a commissioner who reported different sources of fire and the Ministry of Economy itself Sergio Massa. The head of the Palacio de Hacienda asserted “investigate, prosecute and, if necessary, arrestto those responsible for the fires that affected the high-voltage networks in the Campana district of Buenos Aires. “We want the intent of the two large fires that may fall under the felony of arson and havoc to be investigated,” the presentation said.

As soon as he received the submissions, Judge González Charvay unified the complaints and ordered the formation of a worktable with professionals from the Energy Secretariat, experts from Atucha and experts from the Federal Police to centralize the information received.

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They were also present where the electrical incident occurred. “The earth was still warm from the fire that had hit it,” the sources said. During this tour, while it was still dark, the specialists located the place between the two towers where the incident would have occurred.

What remains to be known, indicated the sources consulted, is whether the fire also broke out at this same place or at another nearby place. For the moment, fire experts began working with specialized fuel detection dogs.

But pending the results of the expertise, the court ordered the detectives of the Investigations Division of the Federal Police to collect all the images from public and private cameras who might be in the area, which are already being analyzed.

In turn, the interview was organized with the inhabitants of the place to find out if they detected the presence of people who were not from the area or suspicious movements. “Although there are no cameras located at the semi-rural property where the incident occurred, everyone in the area knows each other and can provide useful information,” the researchers said.

As with any expertise, there are assumptions behind what happened. The main, maximum suspicion was sabotage: an intentional human action intended to generate the collapse it caused. But it could also be the result of human negligence. “Burning meadows, a barbecue or including accumulation of material which has been shown to be flammablesaid the researchers consulted by Infobase.

The third option is a nature event. It will be the expertise already ordered that will eventually give the answer.

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