The escrache of public figures went from being an isolated episode to naturalizing itself as a legitimate way for a sector of the outraged citizenry to channel their anger. The actor Paul Echarri suffered the most recent escrache at the exit of the Comafi Multiteatro, where he stars in the play “Art” together with actors Fernan Miras Y Mike Amigorena.
“Echarri, now that the dollar is at $300, the country is not in danger?” they rebuked him. The actor and renowned Kirchnerist militant retorted: “the Homeland began to be in danger a few years ago”, in reference to the government of Mauricio Macri. Shouting and shoving exploded. “You and all the Kirchnerists will not be able to walk down the street,” they yelled at the actor. The incident had an immediate impact on Twitter.
Video of the escrache to Pablo Echarri:
And it is that the network factor is now added to the public escrache modality: the escraches are filmed with the intention of amplifying the confrontation. Public derision in version 4.0: practically all escraches circulate on Twitter, and they become TT immediately. A rising trend, and a rise in violence.
The most recent cases.
A few days ago, the recently sworn in Minister of the Economy, Serge Massawas escrachado in the province of Santa Fe while accompanying the president Alberto Fernandez in the reopening of the train service that connects Rosario with Cañada de Gómez. A neighbor filmed the video where she at first seems to want to greet the politician, and then she calls him a “squirt” and a “delinquent.”
Video of escrache to Sergio Massa:
Also days ago, during the assumption of Sergio Massa as Minister, whose act took place in the Bicentennial Museum very close to the Casa Rosada, the TN journalist Daniel Malnatti intervened in defense of Lautaro Maislin, a C5N journalist who was covering the event when a group of anti-Kirchnerist protesters attacked him. Malnatti, who would later become a trend for this and for challenging an aggressor who later cried helplessly because of the hunger of his family, expressed himself on his Twitter account.
We cannot tolerate violence as if it were a minor fact. Violence is not the way and in the end it always comes back. But you also have to make an effort to understand where that destructive energy comes from. That’s why I talked to César. Hug everyone ?
— Daniel Malnatti (@danimalna) August 4, 2022
In 2017 it was his own Malnatti who experienced an escrache in the same place, but at the hands of a Kirchnerist protester, who followed him for several meters shouting “a liar here, one who poisons people, hold on Cristina!”
Also the social leader John Grabois suffered an escrache during the inauguration of Serge Massa. A group of people began to follow the leader, filming him and shouting things like “!Go to Cuba!”.
Video of the escrache to Juan Grabois:
And the former Minister of Health Gines Gonzalez Garcia He suffered a recent escrache, when he was rebuked at the exit of a flight that had landed in Ezeiza. “You stole the Argentineans’ vaccines,” a passenger yelled at him, regarding the discretionary vaccination known as “Vip Vaccine.” When registering that they were scolding him, the former minister tried to turn off the passenger’s cell phone with a slap. He didn’t make it, and his reaction was recorded.
Video of the escrache to GInés González:
The meat businessman Alberto Samid tHe also had an uncomfortable moment, in 2021, while he was in a Ramos Mejía bar, despite having house arrest for tax evasion. As the protests escalated, Samid and the other two people accompanying him had to leave the scene.
Video of the escrache to Samid:
On August 3, the referent of the PRO Patricia Bullrich was approached in La Matanza by a group of people holding signs with the messages “No to the closure of the Santiago Maldonado case.” At that time, five years had passed since the protester’s death. Bullrich was Minister of Security when the event occurred, and her figure was highly questioned. “Go drunk! You have no shame!” they yelled at him.
Video of the escrache to Patricia Bullrich:
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