The blocks of the Front for Victory Coalition Civic and Social Equality New Meeting presented a bill in the Legislature to prohibit the Metropolitan Police to make use of the Taser which bought the city’s government. “We need to ban cattle prods PRO” said Assemblyman kirchnerista Francisco “Tito” Nenna, who signed the initiative with Martin Hourest (Social Equality), Rocio Sanchez Andia (CC-ARI) and Gonzalo Ruanova (New Meeting). Chief PRO block, Cristian Ritondo, he replied that adopt such a law would “take a prevention tool to the Metropolitan.”
The controversy over the purchase of five X26 tasers, dart-firing and produce an electric shock, “began with a denunciation of the South Block project earlier this week. The lawmaker Rafael Gentili submitted a request for information and both Amnesty International and the CELS complained to city government will not use these weapons, which were seen as an element of torture by the Committee against Torture and the Human Rights Council UN .
Nenna yesterday presented a project to change an article of the law that created the Buenos Aires police and specifically prohibit the use of “electronic weapons such as electrical or electronic rifles, pistols and other devices like electronic shock, and any other technique or tool noticed or objected to by the Committee against Torture, United Nations “. The legislature Kirchner warned that “the rule that the police created in Article 28 specifies that the body should not inflict, instigate or tolerate torture or cruel, but does not respect Mauricio Macri. “The democratic political forces will not allow the implementation of instruments of torture in a community policing to the residents,” he said.
For its part, Hourest cautioned that “ends up being the UCEP Metropolitan uniform. “The UCEP was created for something else and ended human rights violations. This policeman was created as a community policing for the type of weapons they seek, is meant to physical conflict. It is a very large part of improvisation, “said lawmaker CTA Pagina/12. “If Montenegro does not retract on the use of mobile prods we will use all the institutional resources,” said lawmaker K Maria Jose Lubertino.
“Banning a weapon that is proven worldwide, which has no contraindications and can be used preventively is a prevention tool get to the Metropolitan. This can avoid using a deadly weapon, “said Ritondo, who drives the PRO block.
Meanwhile, Anibal Ibarra, remarked that “Macri has continued to make mistakes: it began with the appointment of Parker, the wiretapping scandal. Now follow with the purchase of equipment, used as marketing. “Beyond the fantasies of Macri and Montenegro, by law the Metropolitan will be devoted to urban issues as minor violations, injuries brawl, rape and theft of home ownership,” brought the former head of government, which found “no justifies the role armed with an area of intelligence-as they did with about 30 Federal-spies, nor the purchase of forty unidentified vehicles, much less the use of electrical weapons.