Buenos Aires, February 10 (NA) – Photographer Pablo Grillo filed as a complainant to “deepen the investigation into the chain of command” of the National Gendarmerie. In an interview with the Argentine News Agency (NA), Agustina Lloret, lawyer for the Center for Social and Legal Studies and Grillo's defense attorney in the case, stated that they also requested an investigation into the actions of the former Minister of National Security and current senator for La Libertad Avanza (LLA), Patricia Bullrich. Grillo was shot with a tear gas cartridge during a demonstration near the National Congress by Gendarme Héctor Guerrero. “We are insisting on the need to investigate the chain of command. Guerrero was surrounded by people, gendarmes with the rank of chief and specific functions for supervising the actions of the various gendarmes, especially those who were armed. They did nothing to stop him, even though he fired repeatedly, putting the lives of protesters at risk, which ultimately materialized in Pablo's case,” she said. Along the same lines, she explained that the dynamics of that shot, which was confirmed in the resolution, have a “prohibited and illegal character” because it was fired “at a horizontal and direct angle towards the protesters,” added to the fact that its authorship was attributed to Guerrero. They asked Judge María Servini to “deepen the investigation” into “all the rings of supervision and control of the Gendarmerie's actions” and also “in a broader sense of the operation.”
