An absurd simplistic view is to say that lynching is a result of the absence of the state, Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich has affirmed following recent violent events that led to the killing of a thief by a group of neighbours in Buenos Aires City, responding also to opposition leader Sergio Massa.
Renewal Front lawmaker Sergio Massa had in a way justified the reaction by people who beat to death a thief for stealing a woman’s purse in the BA City neighbourhood of Palermo, with similar cases being reported in the provinces of Santa Fe and Río Negro.
“Society does not want to live with impunity. The message must be that that who makes it, pays for it and not that no one cares,” Massa had said.
In his address to reporters at the government house this morning, the head of ministers responded to MP’s comments explaining that the national and provincial states “invest in public security” to prevent crime and that the judicial and legislative branches must also “intervene” in the battle against crime.
“Many mayors benefit because a third of their population live in countries and don’t need government coverage,” Capitanich insisted in a direct message to Massa, the mayor of the Buenos Aires province district of Tigre, home of middle and upper classes’ private neighbourhoods.
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