The Buenos Aires senator from the PRO Florence Arietto announced this Saturday that he will criminally denounce Governor Axel Kicillof for having allocated resources from the province of Buenos Aires to the fight against drug trafficking in the Santa Fe city of Rosario. Arietto, former ally of the current Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich, received a wink from President Javier Milei, who shared her message.
“On Monday we will be filing a criminal complaint against Kicillof and his Minister of Security for failure to comply with the duties of a public official by taking resources from all Buenos Aires residents to send them to another province, abandoning those who have to protect and being in a security emergency,” he said. Arietto on X (formerly Twitter). This was stated one day after sending 80 Buenos Aires police vehicles to Santa Fe.
Along the same lines, he warned that “every act of insecurity that happens in Buenos Aires will be the direct responsibility of the governor for having removed patrol cars and supplies that are needed in our streets to send to another jurisdiction while they kill us in the streets of the province.” Curiously, Milei read the message from the provincial legislator and reposted it on her profile, endorsing said decision.
Arietto’s presentation is framed in “failure to fulfill the duties of a public official.” “The Legislature voted for the emergency, you cannot send patrol cars that you acquired in an emergency and send them to another province,” he said. For the opposition leader, the argument that the sending of resources responds to collaborating to stop the possible drug advance on Buenos Aires is not valid.
After pointing out that former Security Minister Sergio Berni altered the official figures, Arietto considered that “Buenos Aires triples Rosario” in victims and the situation “is dramatic.” Likewise, Arietto considered that the province of Buenos Aires is in a security emergency and, he argued, is not in a position to send resources such as patrol cars to another province.
Kicillof’s decision and Arietto’s initial questioning
By Kicillof’s order, the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security finalized the sending of 80 patrol cars in the last few hours to help combat drug trafficking in Rosario. In fact, the national government itself ordered the intervention of federal forces in that city. “It is the first time that a province collaborates with material resources with another province,” highlighted the Santa Fe president Maximiliano Pullaro when celebrating Kicillof’s gesture.
Kicillof, like the other 22 governors, had come out on Tuesday to support Pullaro with a joint statement. “A federal problem that concerns us all,” said the Buenos Aires president about drug trafficking. Also from his account in
“With Maxi Pularro we agree on the need to work together because this problem impacts and affects the entire region,” Kicillof said in a post. Arietto responded to that message by regretting that Pullaro had joined what he considered a “show” by the Buenos Aires governor. “The province of Buenos Aires is in a security emergency, we Buenos Aires residents are at the mercy of irresponsible people. The police leave with battered patrol cars without support. Buenos Aires is infected with drug trafficking. “Disgusting,” he said.
