Mayor Palo Javkin expressed himself again against the burning of grasslands on the islands and again asked arrests of criminals that set fire, by posting a video filmed from Rosario where the igneous foci started this Sunday are seen.
After an unbreathable morning by the smoke and one afternoon with a gray curtain like a postcard towards the Entre Ríos side and also over the city, Javkin accompanied images on Twitter with a claim: “This just happened. Go now. There are the criminals who caught.”
Judges, national officials, is a criminal activity, act, put people in jail. What else do we have to do from Rosario for this to stop”, the mayor is heard saying during the filming from a terrace.
And he returned to demand results of “the conservation lighthouses, the activity of security forces on the river, the brigades that the province of Entre Ríos was going to establish on the ground”, among other measures announced but without result.
Years of claims and lawsuits
While the Municipality of Rosario maintains an old lawsuit due to the burning of grasslands – which he extended last month – the mayor has also been demanding, as a concrete measure, arrest those who cause arson that in addition to a ecocide in the wetland affect the health and quality of life of the Rosario population through smoke.
“I instructed my officials so that in the framework of the case for the complaint that the municipality of Rosario has been making, Let’s not only expand the complaint but also demand the arrests in the framework of that case. based on the locations that the conservation beacons provide,” Javkin asked at the beginning of July, on a Saturday when ashes were also raining over the city.
He also exposed the problem, with the same claim, during his last visit to USA. “As long as there are no arrests and direct sanctions penalties on people, we will not have brake to this incendiary activity,” he warned from Baltimore, where he participated in an “alliance of cities.”
Days after, from United Nations, where Rosario was part of the V Forum of Local and Regional Governments on the 2030 Agenda, the community chief remarked that “the voracity of the destruction of natural resources is catastrophic and unequal” and added: “This scourge is particularly serious in our country, where the Paraná River Deltahome to 700 plant species and 543 vertebrate species, suffers from intentional fires for productive purposes off the coast of our city”.
Nevertheless, the problem did not diminish throughout this month nor were those responsible identifiedat the same time that the weather conditions did not help either and the river returned to the lowest water levels that have been detected in the month of August during the last 25 years.