Governor Maximiliano Pullaro shared on his networks an operation that took place over the weekend in the Piñero prison. The images resemble those disseminated by El Salvador in its fight against gang members.
"Every time they are going to have a worse time", "Every time they are going to have a worse time", said the president in the post, which shows groups of prisoners sitting on the ground, without shirts and heavily guarded. The postcard replicates the method used by El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele to combat gang members in his country.
On Saturday night, the Santa Fe Penitentiary Service carried out a surprise raid on four wards of Penitentiary Unit No. 11 in Piñero, the key prison for Rosario's drug traffickers, where several hitmen and operators of the second lines of the city's gangs are being held. The search took place hours after the shooting attack in the Circunvalación area on a bus transporting prison guards, which ended with a gunshot wound, in the midst of a tightening of prisoner control measures ordered by Governor Maximiliano Pullaro, something that led to more threats and attacks.
"We have a security plan, we know how to execute it and we are working on it. From the prisons come the orders to make life impossible for the people of Santa Fe," the text adds. For the government of Santa Fe, "the time of the free home office is over, without control and with prison officials warned if they disturbed the prisoners".
"We will not back down in the face of threats. We have the mandate of the people of Santa Fe to return tranquility to the neighbors. The prisoners are in jail, we will not accept any extortion and if they do not understand this, they will have a worse time," concluded the message published by Pullaro.
(...) In the same vein, the official continued: "During the operation, almost 250 people were searched in all their homes, including a radiological examination of all those inmates who might have objects hidden inside their bodies". In the meantime, preventive searches continue at any time of the day, without prior notice and without defined schedules and days.