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Julio Piumato

 

Piumato urges Gov't to 'reflect on use of police repression'

The CGT Human Rights secretary Julio Piumato warned that “when you engage in police repression, you know where it starts but you don’t know where it ends.” He also urged to National Government to “reflect” on the events that transpired on Tuesday during a protest led by ex soldiers.

“We always criticized the use of police repression in the past administrations. It doesn’t matter who is in charge. It is repression and we have to criticize it now too,” Piumato explained.

“This year has already seen acts of police repression against the teamsters’ union in Chubut, against the people protesting mining activities in Catamarca and now this,” he said referring to the Federal Police operation used to clear the 9 de Julio Av. of the former soldiers’ protest that was blocking traffic on Tuesday afternoon.

“We are concerned that there may have been a change in policy,” Piumato added.

According to the unionist, the Néstor Kirchner administration had managed to “end with that dark practice of suppression of any kind of social protest.”

“We used to be concerned with the City Government’s attitudes towards the street peddlers,” he said, but now he “is not pleased by what he saw” on Tuesday, when the Federal Police threw teargas at the former soldiers.