A retired protest in Argentina, supported by football fans, unleashes the violent repression of Milei

What was going to be a usual protest of retirees in front of the Congress of Argentina, supported by football fans, unions and social movements, ended this Wednesday in the greatest police repression since Javier Milei arrived at the presidency, in December 2023. The retirees, who are mostly in poverty for their low income, claim an update of pensions, the restitution of the coverage of medicines and continuity pension, who expires this March and who gave pension to those people without enough quoted years.

So far, official sources confirmed to Efe that there are 103 detainees and 20 injured, including one in a very serious state. And among the detainees there are seven trade unionists of the State Workers Association (ATE). Unprecedented police charge of the 4:30 p.m. local time (19:30 GTM) hundreds of police officers, stationed early in the vicinity of the Congress, loaded against the protesters who cut in a peaceful way the Rivadavia and Hipólito Yrigoyen avenues, in the center of Buenos Aires. The police stop a football fan in the protest of retirees. Natacha Pisarenko / AP -Prese The agents sprayed with tear gas and hit with sticks to whom they protested until they cleared the Entre Ríos Avenue, which crosses the square where the imposing legislative building is built. Some citizens responded by throwing stones. Minutes later a truck toured the avenue to Bartolomé Miter expelling strong water jets. There, another group of protesters tried to approach the square and sang songs against the government and security forces, with lyrics like “how sad it must be to hit a retiree to eat”, “Milei, you are the dictatorship” or “Let them all leave.” Those who approached Congress, where it is already a tradition to see retirees demonstrate every Wednesday, felt the itching of gas in the eyes, nostrils and throat. Héctor, who carried a poster with the phrase “Enough of silent genocide” told Efe that he charges the minimum retirement (less than $ 300 per month): “We are defending our rights and we want this hambling government to leave.” Liliana, another usual on Wednesday, approached one of the officers and shouted: “What role as they treat us. They go to help Bahía Blanca (city where there has been great flood) instead of repressing. ” “They are armed to the teeth against retirees,” he lamented in statements to Efe. The fans with the retirees of different football teams, even rivals, joined for the same cause. Carlos, 75, and a fan of Chacarita Juniors, is one of them: “If I have to lose my life fighting as a retiree I will lose it, but my children and my grandchildren are going to be free. The Government, ”the Police told Efe. Bianco, 87, was pushed by a policeman, who hit her head against the asphalt and ended up in the hospital. On Avenida de Mayo, a vehicle of the City of Buenos Aires appeared and, in that environment, several protesters increased others accusing them of being infiltrated and causing the disturbances. A repression of knowledge during the advanced police, a group was protected on the mythical Callao Avenue, including a man with red eyes for the effect of gases, who, drowned in tears, told Efe: “They are destroying the country, this repression we already had it many times.” West Railroad Club T -shirt, she was protected with her partner, from Boca, from police violence, while lamented by the situation of retirees: “They cannot live with what they are charging.” At dusk, the Police returned to take Rivadavia Avenue and pushed a group of retirees. The initiative to accompany on Wednesday the elderly in their protest arose after the events that occurred just one week, when a 75 -year -old Chacarita Juniors fan was sprayed with gases and beaten by the police, until he breaks his wrist.

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