The convicted Cristina Kirchner turned her house arrest into a source of neighborhood chaos, and the city police avoided intervening
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The former president convicted is serving house arrest in the heart of one of the most dangerous areas of the City. The neighborhood was overrun by activists, political events, and Kirchnerist graffiti, in an atmosphere bordering on chaos. The judiciary has already warned that if the peace is disturbed, Cristina could lose the privilege of house arrest. The Federal Police had to intervene to stop what the city government did not even want to look at.
Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation confirmed the conviction against Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in the Vialidad case, imposing a sentence of six years in prison and a lifetime ban from holding public office. Since then, the former president has been serving house arrest in her apartment at San José 1111, in the Constitución neighborhood. However, far from being a quiet fulfillment of her sentence, her presence has caused a political, logistical, and social overflow that has completely disrupted life in the neighborhood.
Manifestación kirchnerista.
From day one, Kirchnerist activists camped in front of the building, with drums, gazebos, food stands, and party events that occupied public space for hours. The scene repeats itself without pause; they sing, while they paint her face on the asphalt, set up generators, organize "culturazos," and wait, at any hour, for the convicted leader to appear on the balcony.
However, the judiciary itself set strict limits: Cristina Kirchner must refrain from disturbing the peace of the neighborhood. No court order is needed to act: the authorization for her house arrest is subject to respect for the surroundings. It is a conditional benefit, not an acquired right.
So clear is that limit that the former president has already avoided returning to the balcony, after the judiciary warned her: not even she now dares to "disturb the peace" of the neighborhood, as her activists did during the first days. The ritual of greetings and cheers from her window has been suspended. It was a clear message: any recurrence could end with her transfer to a regular prison.
Alrededores de los disturbios kirchneristas.
Amid the chaos caused by the Kirchnerist deployment, the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) had to intervene to contain a situation that was getting out of control. Their presence was key to preventing the consolidation of a "liberated zone" at the hands of La Cámpora and its allied groups. Thanks to the federal deployment, the transformation of the neighborhood into an open-air Peronist grassroots unit was contained.
"On Tuesday we couldn't go out or come in. The demonstrators took over the sidewalks, there were drums all day. This is no longer a protest, it's an invasion," said a neighbor who preferred to remain anonymous. Another reported that he had to ask his doctor for tranquilizers and that he could not even watch television because of the constant noise. The PFA was decisive: it imposed the order that the City Government, inexplicably, decided not to assume.
In a context where insecurity reigns in Constitución, with a crime every two days just on that block, graffiti, shouting, political events, and the installation of tents with merchandise of the leader convicted of corruption have now been added to that.
In recent hours, the exhaustion has escalated: another neighbor reported to the media that his right to rest had been suppressed. "Where is our right to rest, to security, to mobility? Does the judicial privilege of the former president outweigh our integrity?" he asked. Meanwhile, the UBA Faculty of Social Sciences, one block away, was taken over by activists who organize roadblocks, vigils, public classes, and noise protests.
