This reprehensible event occurred during the demonstration outside the Legislative Palace against President Javier Milei’s veto of the Retirement Mobility Law.
This Wednesday, all television channels showed the girl receiving medical attention after being sprayed with tear gas, in the midst of the anti-picket protocol deployed by order of the Ministry of Security led by Patricia Bullrich. At the same time, other protesters were seen They gave him water, lemon and milk to mitigate the effects of the gas.
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The moment when a Federal Police officer throws tear gas at the 10-year-old girl.
But at night, from the portfolio that Bullrich leads They were responsible for spreading a video in which the attack was attributed to one of the protesters, although the girl is never seen in it.. The veracity of the video had even been defended in prime time by the National Security Secretariat, Alejandra Monteoliva.
Nevertheless, New images were released on Thursday in which it is clearly seen that it was a Federal Police officer who attacked the girl with the gas.
The video went viral to the point that the global movement Amnesty International echoed the news, and stated that “children cannot be the target of gas or other weapon impacts” and “It is the responsibility of the security forces to exercise strict and rigorous control over the use of weapons in accordance with international standards on the use of force.”
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The testimony of the mother of the girl attacked by the police outside Congress
The mother of the girl who was attacked by the Federal Police with tear gas spoke with C5N and held the police responsible for the incident City Police.
“I’m renting nearby and I wanted to come to support the retirees because it is a disgrace what the Government is doing.“, he said.
“The police gassed him. “We were protesting on behalf of the retirees because I earn $180,000 a month and I can’t even afford a room. They should be ashamed,” he said.
What Patricia Bullrich had said about the assault on the girl
For her part, the Minister of Security pointed directly at the girl’s mother, whom she described as “irresponsible and violent.”
“In these last marches there was a group of activists who went with stones and sticks to hit the police and Now they say that the police tear gas a girl“, Bullrich assured in X (formerly Twitter).
“The responsibility of taking a 10-year-old girl to a march surrounded by violent people is the responsibility of this irresponsible mother. We already told you: Taking children to the marches is prohibited. Children to the marches, no“, he insisted.
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Patricia Bullrich’s tweet about the assault on the 10-year-old girl.