City Police arrested the first of those identified for the destruction and the assembling of Molotov cocktails during the disturbances recorded in front of Congress while the Senate was debating the labor reform promoted by La Libertad Avanza. The arrest was carried out in less than 48 hours after the incidents.
The detainee is N. G. B., a 31-year-old Argentine citizen, who was located this Friday while he was sleeping inside an ATM booth located on Luis María Campos Avenue in the 1300 block, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano. According to official sources, when he was approached by the officers he adopted a violent and uncooperative attitude, so he was subdued and transferred.
The identification was possible thanks to the analysis of security cameras, urban domes, and television footage that place him as part of the group that assembled improvised incendiary devices and then threw them at a police cordon stationed in the vicinity of the Legislative Palace. The images show several demonstrators preparing the Molotov cocktails in broad daylight, in the middle of the public thoroughfare.
Since the suspect was not carrying identification at the time of the arrest, the intervening prosecutor's office authorized the intervention of the Anthropometric Recognition Department of the Scientific Police Superintendency. Through a biometric system, a comparison of facial images was carried out that yielded a positive result, anthropologically and anthropometrically compatible with the detainee. In addition, it was confirmed that he has a criminal record for robbery.
