“It is a decision that comes only from Health Surveillance and a Vice Ministry. It’s honestly terrifying. What is intended is that a person who enters through the airport – and there is no mention of Ciudad del Este, Pedro Juan Caballero – has to lock himself up for five days. And as if that was no longer unconstitutional, they make the decision that the Police can go to your house to control you, ”argued lawyer José Casañas Levi, on the resolution of the Health Surveillance Directorate that establishes a quarantine that reaches country through the Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, in order to avoid as much as possible the new variant of the covid: the delta.
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In this sense, he added that “there are several articles of the National Constitution that are run over by an administrative Directorate of a Ministry”, considering that according to his findings there is not even a decree of the Executive Power that authorizes these controls.
According to Casañas Levi, this resolution conflicts with the following articles of the Magna Carta:
“Article 9: Of the freedom and security of the people, no one can be harassed or forced to do something they don’t want to do if they don’t break the law.
Article 11: Of the deprivation of liberty, I cannot restrict unless there is a court order
Article 33: The right to privacyThat the police go to ring the doorbell of my house to make me sign an act, that makes use of an attribution that not even the law gives it. The Police only have attributions of prevention, maintenance of public order and investigation of crimes. Even having to tell her that she is at home for five days is rape the presumption of innocence“, Held.
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“What they are doing is crazy and both in Spain and Argentina they turned into abusive actions. This idea is absolutely arbitrary, “he said in dialogue with ABC.
He said that as a way to achieve what Health Surveillance intends, it would be what was defined in a first stage, which consisted of those who were in quarantine calling a telephone number in the case of presenting any symptoms, to report.
“One thing is the precautionary measures, another thing is to force him to stay at home. They are attributing functions that they do not have “, he continued and immediately followed, he maintained that”the severity of what is happening is not measured. They are not able to consult with a lawyer before writing something like that. In the Executive, what is happening is not dimensioned and it worries that the defense organs of society, such as the Ombudsman’s Office, do not work ”.
