New hotbed of tension between larretism and Patricia Bullrich, now for tasers

In the midst of the detention of Together for Change for the presidential candidacy, the leader of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich, and the entourage of the head of the municipal government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, staged a new hotbed of tension.

Bullrich, who aspires to win the primaries and become Together for Change’s candidate to succeed Alberto Fernández, accused the Buenos Aires administration of not having the political decision to use Tasers. “I would tell Larreta to use them, not to ask anyone for more permission”mentioned in a television interview in A24.

The chief of staff of Buenos Aires, Felipe Miguel, currently in charge of the Ministry of Security and Justice on the license of Marcelo D’Alessandro, was in charge of answering him. “CABA has already decided to use the tasers. Indeed, we bought them more than two years ago, but the national government has stopped imports since then. It is not a question of deciding to use them but of being able to import them“, he noted on social networks.

“As everyone knows, importing weapons into Argentina requires permission from the national government“, prisoner. And to add: “The obstacle to the importation of Tasers is in court. Two weeks ago, before a CABA amparo, there was a court decision ordering ANMAC to define the situation”.

Likewise, he was candid about the true intention of the government of the city of Buenos Aires on the use of tasers. “I repeat: it is not a question of deciding to use them but of being able to import them. As soon as CABA has the tasers, she will use them,” he said.

And he concluded:Undoubtedly, the transformations that Argentina needs require firmness and seriousness. to move them forward.”

The Taser debate resurfaced last week after a Buenos Aires police officer was murdered at Metro C’s Retiro station in a situation that would have been easily contained with this type of non-lethal weapon.

The administration of Horace Rodriguez Larreta In 2020, he had processed an authorization from the National Agency for Controlled Materials (Anmac) to buy 60 pistols. Ramiro Urristi, the official who signed the authorization, was expelled from his post a few days after consenting to the administrative act and the new management of the organization which reports to the Minister of Justice Martín Soria never authorized the consignment to enter the country. The City intends to unblock the problem with an injunction that was filed in October last year.

In the event that the entrance to firearms is unlocked, the government of Buenos Aires has a project to create Taser brigades that will be deployed in the 15 municipalities to intervene in particular cases such as acts of violence caused by people insane or in a nervous breakdown.

This isn’t the first time Bullrich and Miguel have publicly fought. The two leaders hosted a discussion in November last year which was recorded on tape.

During the presentation of the book “Para qué” by Mauricio Macri, Bullrich looked at the chief of staff of the city of Buenos Aires, and openly dropped: “Don’t see me on TV anymore because next time i’ll kick your assDon’t mess with me, I’ll let you know.”

The anger of the former Minister of Security had been preceded by a television report in which Miguel had met her for her reaction to the operations carried out by the Police in Recoleta, in front of the house of Cristina Kirchner, during the vigil led by activists before the decision of the Viladad case.

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