He Milei Government He has given a green light to a police reform that allows “Cyberpatrulla” and arrests without prior judicial orderA measure that was only approved one day for a major demonstration of support for the former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sentenced to six years in prison for corruption.
Argentinian Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, has defended that these measures They match those already used by the United States FBI And he has approved that the security forces proceed to arrests and archives – also of vehicles – without the permission of a judge to “prevent, detect and investigate complex federal crimes”.
He has also defended that this will allow the “safety of the Argentinian state” to protect, despite the fact that defenders of human rights and Legal experts have warned the possible consequences for fundamental freedoms and rights of the Argentines.
The measure was also introduced shortly before the protests that will take place this Wednesday to support Fernández in the city of Comodoro Py, where he has to go to court for his arrest.
With the motto “Argentina with Cristina”, The organizers have assured that they will guide it to the courts.
The new regulations will also allow the police Supervise supervised accounts in social networks and web addresses. In the text published by the government, it is detailed that the police now have these powers as long as there are “objective circumstances” that assume a crime or “get the inability to wait for a judicial order that is processed”.
Critical voices with the government have denounced that this will imply and re -activate an increase in supervision and supervision of the state at different levels Mechanisms used in the past by the government of former President Mauricio Macri, When Bullrich himself already promoted similar measures.
Now the minister has justified these changes and has indicated that its goal is to “professionalize” the security forces to set them to “international standards such as those of the FBI”.
This is confronted with criticism, which refers to possible acts of “Repression” and “criminalization” of the protest, and of a “weakening of constitutional guarantees”.
