Injuries, arrests in Argentina as football fans, retirees clash with police | News protests

The riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon to spread people who protested against the pension cuts in Buenos Aires.

At least 15 people were injured and more than 100 arrested in Argentina after football fans and retirees clashed with police during protests in the country’s capital against economic policies she had spent President Javier Mileiincluding pension cuts.

The buenos Aires riots in Buenos Aires used a tear gas, rubber bullets and a water cannon to dispel the demonstrators throwing a anger for the Government move.

Authorities said the injured were taken to the hospital, including a police officer who was also shot by a protester who was hit by a tear gas canister in the head.

Pensioners gather each week to protest against the cuts on their pensions, which have been dried since Libertarian Milei has taken office at the end of 2023. On Wednesday, they united with football fans from several clubs to set up a demonstration.

Daniel Schweimler Al Jazeera, who reported from Buenos Aires, said thousands had joined protests after the video became a viral of an elderly man in a football jersey beaten by police.

Jose, a pensioner who joined the protest, told Al Jazeera that retirees were denied access to medicine and had reduced their pensions.

Football fans were further angry after the Argentine Ministry of Security announced a resolution on Wednesday, banning anyone involved in traffic and security disorders and “violent behavior” from the intake of football stadiums.

The audience shouted “Milei, garbage, you are dictatorship!”, Comparing his reign with the military government of Argentina 1976-1983, while conflicts broke out near the Congress building and a significant Plaza de Mayo.

Among the injuries, the most serious photojournalist Pablo Grillo was seen in videos on the social media that the missile hit while photographing. His father Fabian told reporters that the life of his wounded son was in danger and blamed Milei’s government.

Drastic rigor

Demonstrators – Many wave state flags and pictures of late football Diego Maradona – They were greeted by the main security presence outside the congress, which was at the session when protests began.

The columns of the police rebellion on foot, supported by motorcycle police officers, fought for more than two hours to clean the central Avenue of protesters throwing firefighters, stunning grenades and stones taken from broken sidewalks.

The patrol car and garbage cans are lit and several streets are barricaded by debris.

A video of a police officer who pushes and hits an older woman who has fallen to the ground, a bleeding head, is widely divided on social networks.

Emotions ran highly in the South American country on Tuesday, at the beginning of the trial of seven medical staff accused of murder for Maradona’s death in 2020.

Senior Maradona I died in a rented house in Buenos Aires, where they were cared for after brain surgery. His medical team was accused of being criminal in care of care.

In the year of drastic savings, retirees are the most pain, with a pension increase fell far from inflation. Almost 60 percent of pensioners receive only the minimum amount, which is an equivalent of about $ 340 a month.

Last year, Milei was veto on a veto on a law that would increase pensions, although less than inflation.