Scioli on the death of Banfield’s defender “it was not insecurity, it was murder”

 

 

May 7, 2012

 

The governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Daniel Scioli, spoke about the death of Lautaro Bugatto, Banfield’s defender who was shot by a police officer chasing two criminals. He called it “murder.”

After an official ceremony in the locality of Tigre, Scioli said the officer’s action “is not [of] the police we want nor our security policy.” The officer was off duty and shot unarmed criminals who attempted to steal his daughter’s motorcycle .

“It’s not insecurity, it is murder. As such it must be treated with the full weight of the force of law,” said the governor told reporters.

“[I feel] indignation, dismay, very angry, because obviously it is neither the police nor we want our security police,” the provincial leader.