The Minister of Security of the province of Buenos Aires, Sergio Berni, was one of the protagonists of the first day of the strict quarantine due to the fight he starred with police officers in one of the checkpoints arranged in the La Noria Bridge, and that then it was worth the criticism of various government officials.
Beyond the noise caused by the public discussion caused by these scenes, the official who is part of the cabinet of Axel Kicillof revealed in an interview an alarming data associated with the economic crisis that Argentina is going through as a consequence of the quarantine and the pandemic by coronavirus: more and more the people who go out to steal in order to survive.
In dialogue with Luis Novaresio in the program Stray animals, the Buenosairean minister raised: “For the first time, we are arresting people who had clean records, who commit crimes of survival.” And before the questions, he developed: “This pandemic in the world has generated an economic crisis so great that some say that this is the last effort and I say no! This is the first of all the efforts we have to make because after the pandemic we are going to have to put a country on its feet. “
It should be noted that Berni is not the first leader to associate a possible increase in crime with confinement. The intervener of the Penitentiary Service, María Laura Garrigós de Rébori, he had projected a similar scenario when the quarantine ended. “The day we get out of quarantine we will have a spike in property crime” as a consequence of the economic recession and the impact on the social situation that the pandemic will bring, he declared.
Berni highlighted the efforts made by the provincial and national governments to assist 29 million people who suffer the consequences of compulsory isolation. However, he recalled that Argentina is a country that came “Typing”, “with terrible problems”, that in the coming months they could worsen with indicators never seen before.
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