“Sometimes they ask us how we can continue.” Matthias Edery you are used to a recurring query. What is it like to live under threat from drug traffickers? Is it worth risking your life for a job?
The response of prosecutor of Rosario, attached to the Organized Crime and Complex Crimes Agency, looks for arguments in professionalism, personal convictions and even financial compensation. “We do what we are passionate about and we have a good salary,” the prosecutor responds to the umpteenth query of the same tenor, carried out by NOTICIAS.
The last warning signal occurred on Saturday, January 22, when Lorena Verdún, ex-wife of Claudio Ariel “Bird” Canterothe late founder of the fearsome gang “The monkeys”warned him that he was not going to forget his arrest and that of his son, Uriel Luciano Canteroand that things would not end there.
“Lucho”, signed as the heir who refounded the band, had shaken social networks showing off his weapons on Christmas 2021. The prosecutor acted, but his intervention earned him a disturbing threat.
“Coming from a person from whom we had just seized 24 weapons of war, it is cause for concern,” the prosecutor declared immediately. ederyin the audience in which the members of the clan Stonecutter They ended up charged with preventive detention.
That concern, however, becomes an occupational hazard for ederywho has lived with permanent custody for three years, choosing books at home rather than social gatherings in open places.
“It’s not that you can go out every day because you can’t say to custody ‘take me to play tennis’, I don’t think it’s something I have to do with custody. I try to use it as little as possible and there one stays at home, reads books. There are various things to do around the house.”
News: Does it also affect your environment?
Edery: With the family there are always some tensions. She ends up accompanying, with concern, taking care of herself. If you ask me what my concern is, it’s not about me, I’m worried that something could happen to my family. For me it is the work I do and what I have to do.
After the crossing with the widow of Stonecutterthe phone of edery rang and on the other side was the governor of Santa Fe, Omar Perotti, with expressions of support. The same gesture multiplied and shows of solidarity arrived from different institutions of the political and judicial arch of the country.
The prosecutor, however, issued a warning. “There were energetic expressions and we appreciate them, the problem is that when we reach a political or police actor we do not have the same support,” he warned. It’s not the first time edery denounces “a corrupt alliance” between power and drug traffickers. “That is what needs to be dismantled.”
