The Senate denied the CABA and assured that it never requested that there be no security fences in Congress

(Developing news) The attack on the City Police and the front of the National Congress, especially the office of Vice President Cristina Kirchner in the Senate, led to the crossing of accusations between a sector of the government government and the Buenos Aires authorities, in charge of the security operation on March 10 as part of the treatment in Parliament of the agreement for debt restructuring with the IMF.

This morning, the Minister of Security of the City, Marcelo D'Alessandro, announced that they will carry out a special operation so that the incidents of last week are not repeated. “We are going to fence and use force to ensure the development of Congress, which is one of the pillars of democracy,” the official said.

D'Alessandro also assured that last week there were no fences in Parliament at the express request of Vice-President Cristina Kirchner, whose office was stone-attacked. “We have to define which side we are on: the violent or the non-violent,” he emphasized.

“Cristina herself has called (referring to other opportunities) requesting that the fences be removed. What we are going to do next Thursday is to create a fence that allows us to have a lung so that the police can act faster, protect themselves and distinguish the violent from the non-violent ones to act accordingly,” added the Buenos Aires minister.

As a result, from the Administrative Secretary of the Upper House, they issued an official statement on the subject. “The Administrative Secretary of the Senate of the Nation categorically denies that any of the authorities of this House have communicated with government officials of the City of Buenos Aires to request that security fences not be placed last Thursday, March 10, while the Chamber of Deputies was sitting to discuss the agreement with the IMF”.

They also said that “there was also no communication requesting that there be no external fences during the activity scheduled for this week in the Senate.”

However, they admitted that on one occasion the vice-president communicated to remove the security vines. “The only communication that the President of the Senate, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, had with the then Vice Chief of Government of Buenos Aires, Diego Santilli, was on August 26, 2020, on the occasion of the Senate's consideration of a draft reform of the judiciary. At that time, and in a timely manner, the city was asked to remove the fences they were putting up at that time and which had not been requested either, since a mass call was not planned. This telephone communication was widely disseminated in the media,” they said.

The statement recalls that on other occasions, as happened during the treatment of the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Act, which called for a broad social mobilization, “fences were used preventively around the perimeter of the building.”

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