Bullrich presented the Antibarras bill and defended the security forces.

The Minister of Homeland Security, Patricia Bullrich, presented the "Anti-Barras Law" project this Monday, aimed at categorizing the barrabravas as a criminal organization dedicated to illicit association.

The minister explained that the proposal seeks to "directly and absolutely prohibit the figure of the barras", putting an end to crimes such as extortion of fans, illegal resale of tickets and jerseys, and the use of these groups as shock forces. Additionally, it will include aggravated sanctions for club leaders who participate in these associations.

The project was developed by the legal team of the National Ministry of Security and contemplates penalties of two to four years in prison for the barras who carry weapons or illegally sell protocol tickets.

The initiative has the support of President Javier Milei, who recently supported Bullrich after the large security operation deployed in Congress last Wednesday, which ended with 124 left-wing terrorists detained.

"Argentina has long needed to solve a structural violence problem with the football barrabravas. Since we came to government, we initiated the project of this law and today it reached the Chamber of Deputies signed by President Javier Milei", Bullrich stated at a press conference.

"It's a law that frames the barras and typifies the crimes of these barrabravas, in a type of special illicit association, that is, a criminal organization", she concluded.

"We have a record of 15,000 people who have had violent actions and are banned from entering stadiums in Argentina and other parts of the world through agreements", Bullrich stated at the press conference.

"We want to end the deals and that's why we punish all the mechanisms that generate a type of financing and that is endorsed by the club leaderships that facilitate tickets to the barras, rent them buses, and allow the entry of blunt objects and weapons", she added.

The case of Pablo Grillo

When asked about the incident with the photographer Pablo Grillo, the minister expressed: "To Grillo's family, I send my total solidarity, but I want to clarify that the shot was not directly to the head. The shot was made, according to the Gendarmerie's protocol, which has a mechanism where the officer must execute it obliquely toward the ground and that's what the security officer does".

"We had quite a difficulty finding the images because there was a lot of smoke, but in the reconstruction, the shot bounces one or two times and then goes through a sign that was lying on the ground with fire and, unfortunately, that deviation hits the photographer's head", Bullrich explained.

"The security forces were without firing a single shot, waiting to see what the pseudo-demonstrators, thugs, barrabravas, and violent people who were in the square would do", Bullrich added.

"The so-called march was an attempt, not to defend rights, but to destroy the public order gained in Argentina throughout 2024", she stated.

"To now want to circumscribe a gendarme to the total and absolute destruction committed by those who went to break and destroy, and return to the situation where they had the street won, that's the important fact. Unfortunately, there is an injured person, but the gendarme complied with the regulations", the minister reaffirmed.

Finally, Bullrich explained: "They want to destroy democracy and overthrow the government. We will continue to defend the citizenry and the institutions because they threw stones at Congress and the Government House. Those violent people are the ones we must fight, and with this law, we will do it".