On Wednesday, June 4, around 22.30, four young people pounced against the cash of the Federal Police Facundo Aguilar Fajardo. The agent was out of service, waiting for his mother to go up to a collective in La Matanza. What followed by the images that went viral: Fajardo took out his gun, the young people ran and ripped off. In total they were eleven. One of the 18 -year -old thieves died on the spot, and two were injured. Two block from the place was Thiago, 7 years old, playing with his father. One of the bullets hit him on the head, and died two days. All this tragic episode was summarized the next morning by Patricia Bullrich, with simplicity to differentiate “good” from “bad” that characterizes it: “criminals are the only ones responsible for this tragedy. If they had not gone out to steal, today there would be no destroyed family, they have to pay with perpetual prison.”
Two days later, on Saturday 7, another episode happened that moves away from the normal functioning of security and justice forces. During a protest at the Juan Domingo Perón Institute, in Recoleta, the social leader Juan Grabois was arrested with another militant. The striking thing is that dozens of people participated in the building, but there were only two arrested.
The one who cleared the doubts about what happened was, in this case, the Federal Police Chief. “They were directives of Mr. President, Javier Milei, and Dr. Patricia Bullrich,” said Luis Alejandro Rolle, at a press conference. The statement is more than striking, since it is directly beyond what the law determines as possible: neither the president nor the Minister of Security can order arrests. It is simply not within its powers, except for a state of siege to be declared.
Both facts are not isolated. They occur in a context where, between statements, changes of regulations, decrees and a lousy salary and material condition, security forces seem to be unleashed and without brake. It is the bullrich doctrine.
Firm hand. “The good ones are those of Azul,” they usually say Bullrich, the president and the bulk of the government. In the case of the minister, he repeats what happened with the police Luis Chocobar during the management of Mauricio Macri: even when they exceed the legitimate defense, and even if that ends with fatal victims -a teenager who had stolen in the Chocobar case, Thiago in the last episode -, the police never are to blame. What is the risk that a minister endorses this type of behavior? A report prepared by the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) indicates that between 2020 and this year six children under 13 years of police officers who used their regulatory weapon out of service died. The figure for children between 14 and 17 years is much older: 59.
The guarantee of Bullrich to the spiral of violence of the security force is not exempt from contradictions. What happened with Chocobar – which was convicted in the first instance, then acquitted by the Chamber and in August he will return to court – is illustrative: no matter how much the minister supports the police action, those who put his future at stake are the agents. The case of Rolle, who admitted before the cameras to have made an irregular way, returns in that sense. Will it have consequences? In the Federal, more and more are those who look suspiciously the orders of Bullrich, which forces them to repress even the retiree marches.
“They are angry with Rolle and her, that always exposes them. There is a lot of discomfort,” says a politician who went through that portfolio. The anger is justified for another reason: the average salaries in the federal are around the $ 850 thousand, which forces many of them to have alternative work. To that we must add the bad material conditions. “It’s inhuman, old offices, without heating, full of rats,” said Grabois when he was released.
Legality. Bullrich began on this path to the new government days, when he promulgated the famous “antipiquet protocol.” All the lights of that measure were made by the decision to prohibit street cuts, but there was something in the background that changed with that norm: from that decree it was resolved that the forces can act without a court order, by maintaining that the marches are a “flagrant crime”. With recordois exactly that happened.
In June Decree 496 was published, which gave the Government the Faculty to incorporate any suspect in that activity into the list of terrorists. The case will be in that list aggravates the penalty that someone would face before justice. That happened at the same time that the Government began to call “terrorists” those who marched against the ruling.
In January of this year, Congress approved, at the request of the Minister of Security, the Law “Antimaphia”, inspired by the rich law that American films usually promote. Thanks to this change, any person considered part of a “mafia” by his ministry can – with the authorization of a prosecutor – to be arrested for up to 30 days for “crime investigation” and even, without conviction, seize any good that is suspected of being related to that alleged mafia.
It is now expected that Milei, at the request of Bullrich, also modifies the Organic Law of the Federal Police. The minister progresses, regardless of costs. The last novelty was Decree 383/2025, which repealed the PFA Statute and established extraordinary powers in research and prevention tasks, in addition to opening a gray field on cyberpatrulla. There is established the possibility of stopping without a court order for 10 hours, the requisitions without court order.
