Under the management of Axel Kicillof, the Buenos Aires territory has become a "liberated zone" where the criminal is protected by guarantees and the honest citizen is left to fend for themselves. This vacuum of state power has forced neighbors to take extreme measures of justice by their own hand to defend what they worked so hard to achieve. The setting for this dramatic image of abandonment was the city of Zárate, specifically in the Barrio El Progreso, during midday this Tuesday.
It all began in a local self-service store, where a criminal stole belongings from the business under the modality of theft. Faced with the ineffectiveness of provincial security forces, the store owner decided not to resign himself to being just another statistic of unpunished crime: he conducted his own investigation, found out who the perpetrator was, and personally went to the criminal's home to confront him.
Upon arriving at the house, the situation escalated in violence when the suspect threatened the victim with a knife, demonstrating the danger posed by individuals walking freely on the streets of Buenos Aires. However, the merchant managed to subdue the attacker and, in an act that reflects the total frustration of a society that no longer expects anything from the government of Kicillof, decided to deliver his own sentence: he tied the criminal with a rope to the back of his Ford Ranger truck and began a journey of several blocks in front of the astonished neighbors.
The sequence, which was recorded by various security cameras, is chilling and shows the harshness of reality in the PBA. In the images, it can be seen how the criminal, minutes after 1:00 PM, is forced to run behind the vehicle to avoid being dragged, although at times his body hit directly against the asphalt. At one point in the video, the truck suddenly stopped and the suspect, due to the inertia of the movement, hit his body against the back and fell to the ground. Far from stopping, the merchant got out of the vehicle, tightened the rope, and continued driving while hitting the subject.
