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The National Federation of Municipalities denounced that three traffic inspectors from San José were attacked when trying confiscate two motorcycles in the Parque Rodó in the city of San José of May. A video circulating about the incident shows the conflict between the inspectors and several people who were around their truck, in whose box there were two motorcycles.
“You are not going to take the motorcycle to me”, said a man. “Lower the motorcycle for me, you lower the motorcycle for me,” he declared, in the middle of the discussion in which the inspectors refused to remove the vehicles from the truck. At a certain point, a struggle began and two men took the two motorcycles.
Asked about this issue, the president of the National Federation of Municipalities, Valeria Ripoll, said Monday that the inspectors were doing routine checks when they found the two motorcycles that “did not meet the requirements.”
There were “very violent people who forcibly lowered the motorcycles that (the inspectors) were confiscating,” Ripoll said in a conversation with Underlined (Channel 10) and highlighted the “level of insult and aggression” in the episode.
“A colleague was found to have wrist injuries due to the struggle when those motorcycles were being lowered,” he said. “The problem we have in San José is that they work without police support, so obviously these compañeras were alone,” she concluded.
The National Federation of Municipal issued a statement in which they expressed their repudiation of the events that occurred, established that “the corresponding complaints have already been made” and expressed their desire that “the full weight of Justice falls on the aggressors.”
“We demand from the municipal authorities that when these operations are carried out they be with the support of the Ministry of the Interior, since it is their duty to protect the officials,” the text says.
“We seriously and urgently request an area with the Congress of Mayors, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Labor since there are many aggressions that municipal workers in the country suffer daily, in carrying out our tasks,” he concludes.
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