Incidents between former Falkland fighters and the Police at the gates of PAMI headquarters

Former fighters from the Malvinas staged a confrontation with members of the Buenos Aires City Police this afternoon in the context of a complaint they are carrying out for a lack of medical care by PAMI. The events were recorded at the gates of the state headquarters located in downtown Buenos Aires.

“The veterans of Malvinas are in the Central PAMI, to ensure compliance with resolution 191. The President said it was going to be law, but in the meantime veterans die due to lack of attention,” said former fighter Alejandro Bareiro on social media just minutes before the incidents were caused and as an explanation of the complaint.

According to police sources consulted by Infobae, the confrontation began around 3.30 pm when “it had been agreed that 16 referents should enter but behind them they wanted to get more and their access was cut off; a cordon was formed to prevent entry” in the PAMI Agency 7, located at the junction of Avenida Corrientes and florida.

The concrete thing is that, as recorded in the images that circulated on social networks, beatings were observed from both sides and even police officers appealed to the use of pepper spray to repel veterans of the Falkland War, war that turns 40 this year.

“They are throwing gas on the Malvinas veterans, at PAMI CENTRAL,” Bareiro claimed just minutes later also through social networks.

“That resolution gave us a law for the health of the summer of war. It was conceived in 2004 during the administration of Nestor Kirchner and now the PAMI takes away the resolution or does not comply with it,” another former combatant explained in statements to the TN channel.

“What they have taken away are very specific things. In the interior of the country it is a disaster, they have lost medical services and are not being treated. They charge them a separate bonus when our care is free,” another war veteran later explained to the same channel. “The outrages were also generated by our two years of promises and abandonment,” he added.

The man also provided details on how the crossing with the Buenos Aires City Police began. “We wanted to enter peacefully to try to find a solution and it turns out that we cannot find that solution. When they saw that we were entering, they came and beat us out with tear gas. There the adrenaline rose unfortunately and we had that confrontation with the police”, he added.

“If today we don't have a solution when the 16 teammates who came in leave, we're going to stay. This is no longer banking, we are suffering a lot. If there's anything concrete, we're leaving. If not, we are going to camp here.”

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