The story of nemecia It is one of those that on Tuesday June 20 is one of those that portray the hell into which the city of San Salvador de Jujuy starting at noon. When a long hour of repression by the Jujuy security forces had passed, two of his sons, far from the center of the conflict (which was initially concentrated above all in the surroundings of the Palace of Legislative Power) they left their house to go to another with a very common goal: go get some coke to crack.
But while the young, one of 21 years old, autistic, and another of 18, with motor disabilitywere walking, they ran into security forces that they began to beat them. Neighbors who were on the block rushed to defend them, explaining that the boys were not doing anything and that they both had disabilities. But it was not enough: the two were put in a truck and then arrested and taken to Alto Comedero.
At night, Nemecia was one of the many mothers, wives, and sisters waiting to find out if their children were going to be released. Detention center authorities they asked him for proof that their children did indeed have disabilities. In the middle of the night of a day marked by the violence of infiltrators who even destroyed the legislature, white vans carrying troops who forced their way into houses, and police who fired tear gas and even stones at the demonstrators, according to oral and film testimonies captured by the demonstrators and the neighbors.
in dialogue with NEWSNemecia says and once He is afraid. Asks “take care of me” because she had a high television exposure when, desperate, she told her story clarifying that it was voter of the governor Gerardo Morales.
“To the boy with autism they released it because they saw that they beat him very badly. They broke his head and he did not stop bleeding, he lost consciousness. “I felt that I died” -he told me-. Because they kicked me and kicked me.” He told me that did not react, that they kicked him worse than an animal. On top of that, he was bleeding, but they kept kicking him and they forcibly silenced him, ”he describes.
News: And what happened to your other son? Are you still detained at Alto Comedero?
Nemecia: No, so far (N.de la R. at 5:00 p.m.) they have not released the other boy, an 18-year-old, who has motor disabilities because I don’t have enough to do the operation, which costs me 300,000 pesos each. He had an accident and his femur and clavicle were broken, and his knee was bad.
News: Did they tell you when they could get you released?
nemecia: The lawyer told me that they are about to release him because of everything that the press revealed. But time passes and they give me excuses of all kinds, I come up with stories. I don’t know what the reason is, if it’s to cover up everything they did to him. According to the prosecutor, they are taking him to do tests. But I I’m afraid they will retaliate against my son because my husband went to see him and the boy told him that they beat him so much that they forced him to sign I don’t know what papers. My children they have no recordthey have nothing. They they are not criminals.
News: Could you tell if he’s okay?
Nemecia: My son has serious psychological problems because they tortured himthey put a black bag over his head, they drowned him in the water, they made him the submarine and made him sign papers. You they stole the cell phone because he had enough evidence to show that he was telling the truth. He is still in custody up to now. I ask more than anything for the safety of me and my family for everything I said, for everything I told.
There are still 42 detained men, 18 women and 4 minors. Nemecia’s autistic son arrived at her house in state of shock:People on the autism spectrum are extremely sensitive to anything from loud noises, loud noises, bright lights, violence of all kinds. At this time the young man is content although still overwhelmed.
Nemecia asks for help again so as not to be a victim of reprisals. It is something that she does not stop repeating while she speaks. She sneaks fear between description and description. And she hopes to have her 18-year-old son who can barely walk on his own with her.
