Installation of police fencing at Cristina Kirchner's house sparks controversy in Argentina

The installation is from the Government of the city of Buenos Aires, headed by the opposition Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.

The investigated vice president of Argentina Cristina Kirchner woke up this morning with a police fence surrounding her house, a measure that caused annoyance and controversy beyond the Andes.

Hundreds of people marched this Saturday in Buenos Aires to protest the installation around the house in moments that a prosecutor requested a sentence of twelve years in prison and lifelong disqualification to hold public office against authority.

The home of the former president (2007-2015), located in the capital’s Recoleta neighborhood, woke up this Saturday with a set of fences in its vicinity and a reinforcement of police security, measures arranged by the Government of the city of Buenos Aires headed by the opposition Horacio Rodríguez Larreta.

Since Monday, a group of political, social and student activists have been holding a vigil around the home of “CFK”, but the The Buenos Aires government took advantage of the heavy rains this morning to clean the area and establish the fence in question, preventing the congregation of demonstrators in the place.

The vice president loaded on your website against the decision of the Capital Executive, emphasizing that this Saturday the corner of his house was “literally besieged”.

“The fences placed by Mr. Larreta are more than just preventing free movement, they are more than just besieging the vice president of the nation. They want to ban the absolutely peaceful and joyous protesters of love and support that take place in the face of the already undeniable persecution of the judicial party,” Fernández asserted.

For this reason, the leaders of the ruling coalition of the Frente de Todos in Buenos Aires called to gather around the home of the vice president to protest the police fence.

There, officials of the national government, political leaders, trade unionists and supporters of Kirchnerism carried out a “sit-in” in front of the fences, without incidents with the police having been recorded so far.

Institutional madness that Rodríguez Larreta’s police have set up in the house of @CFKArgentina.

We demand that the fences and police personnel that do not allow the free movement of people be removed urgently. #TodosConCristina pic.twitter.com/DD5oXq8npa

– Agustín Rossi (@RossiAgustinOk) August 27, 2022

Version of the Buenos Aires Government by billboards at Cristina Kirchner’s house

In statements to the TN news channel, the Buenos Aires chief of staff, Felipe Miguel, explained that the installation of the fence had the objective of “guaranteeing the circulation” of the residents of the area..

“Governments have a responsibility to guarantee public order. Here we saw that progressively, in the last 48 hours, they had been systematically organized to take turns, people arrived, we had batucada, fair, noise until 2 in the morning… People have to be able to live in peace,” Miguel assured.

On Monday, federal prosecutor Diego Luciani requested a twelve-year prison sentence against Cristina Fernández as part of a trial for alleged irregularities in the award of public works when she was head of state.

The prosecutor considers that it is proven that the current vice president was the “boss” of an illicit association which caused a millionaire economic damage to the State.

Fernández said that there is no evidence to support such accusations during a public appearance on Tuesday, after the court that tried her denied her the possibility of expanding her investigative statement.