Sympathizers of Milei’s Party Attacks Argentinian Students with Pepper Spray
National University of Quilmes, Oct 2024 Photo: @ThiagoTendencia
October 15, 2024 Hour: 4:14 pm
Argentine students and teachers from the National University of Quilmes (UNQ) in Buenos Aires reported being attacked with pepper spray on Monday, October 14, during an assembly while they decided to take the establishment in repudiation of the Government’s policies of definancing and veto the law on funding of universities.
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The agression was protagonized by a group of people associated with the party of the president Javier Milei, who posed as students to break into a university assembly.
In the university’s account on social network X, they report that people entered the campus intimidatingly and threw pepper spray at students, only to report that they had been attacked in the first place.
María Eugenia Dichano, a teacher and researcher at the center, said that around seven o’clock in the afternoon, when she was finishing the assembly of the teaching staff, and minutes before the student’s meeting began, a young woman approached them to ask for help because there was a «group of provocateurs» that they had shirts and flags from the president’s party.
The students asked them to retire to let them deliberate on the future of the take-over actions, and these people began to assault and pepper spray the more than 500 who were there, in a closed space, The effect was felt by a large proportion of the population.
The teacher added that after the incidents, several people had to receive attention from SAME and that they lodged a complaint at the Bernal police station.
Hours later, the chief of staff of the province of Buenos Aires, Carlos Bianco, and the mayor of Quilmes, Mayra Mendoza, were present.
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