Argentine leftist political organizations, together with several soccer fan-run gangs, led a violent protest on Wednesday in front of Argentina’s Congress in Buenos Aires, leaving over 120 detained and dozens injured, including at least 26 injured police officers.
The violent protesters also caused hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars’ worth of damages to public infrastructure, including two burned-down police vehicles. Although more than half of the detainees have “serious criminal records,” according to local Buenos Aires authorities, a judge ordered the expedited release of at last 114 of the protesters in the midnight hours of Thursday.
Argentina’s Clarin newspaper reported that the protest, originally intended as the latest iteration of a recurring non-violent weekly self-styled march for the pensioned, rapidly turned “very violent” through
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