The Pueyrredón bridge was a dough of woods, stones and bullets

The unemployed people and piqueteros faced the police

The demonstrators tried to cut to the transit the security forces sent tear gases and rubber bullets when trifulca began Were fires and sackings

Nora Giménez received yesterday six firings in the back. The body still shook to him with espasmos when it said: "They repressed to point-blank".

The lead that thundered against to two of its piqueteros companions did not reach the body of Giménez, militant of the Working Pole. Those that marked their back and they allowed him to survive a fury day yesterday on the Pueyrredón bridge, that unites Avellaneda, in the province of Buenos Aires, with the Capital were rubber pellets.

Two deads, 90 hurt and 160 stopped were the result of the confrontations between security forces and about 2500 demonstrators.

The disturbances began to 11.40. Two columns of unemployed people and piqueteros advanced then towards the ascent of the Pueyrredón bridge, by the avenues Mitre and Pavón.

There were no children in the piqueteros groups, as it happened in other manifestations.

In means the Buenosairean police and the Prefecture had left, that resisted the cut. The uniformed ones sent tear gases and later they opened fire.

The wrath between the police that participated in the operative one untied when a bullet cleared the face of inspecting commissioner Luis Alfredo Franchiotti. The left eye bled to him, outside orbit. His subalter to us they retired it from the shock front. The situation was outside control.

To 12, a helicopter of Prefecture and another one of the Federal Police flew over the zone. In earth 50 men acted about of infantry, 60 of the group Tide and other 70 of Prefecture. By handy they asked reinforcements seven police stations of Avellaneda.

"They repressed to point-blank. I received six firings in the back ", related Giménez to the NATION, already in the Fiorito hospital, of Avellaneda, where he was transferred for his attendance.

The militant of the Working Pole was one of the piqueteros ochos that received compatible wounds with firearms. Its voice did not let crepitar while it hoped to both know the identity dead companions.

Claudia, another militant of the group Aníbal Verón, received a firing in the knee: "It was a hunting. They gave us yet ", expressed.

The men of the Block Piquetero Nacional, that he had summoned to the route cut, fell back after the confrontations in the Pueyrredón bridge. In fled his they ran, they sacked banks and they set afire vehicles.

A colectivero of line 134, Luis Ruiz, was boarded in its vehicle on the Pavón avenue by the demonstrators, who robbed to him exhibiting a gun and a pistol 9 millimeters.

The chaos

Other group of piqueteros fled from the shooting by the Mitre avenue destroying to his step the show windows of at least seven banks.

In the crease, some of the demonstrators reached to arrive to the station from trains of Avellaneda.

"firings were listened to. A young boy fell to the ground, wounded. And poli thundered against it. They picked off to him. The police I take it ' ", related the employee of locutorio of the zone of the station.

To little meters a woman underwent an epilepsy attack. The crowd ran driven crazy by the platforms and the routes without knowing how where to go.

The people in charge of the operative one, the police and the Prefecture, denied that their men had used lead bullets. Nevertheless, the two people without life transferred to the Fiorito hospital had compatible injuries with those projectiles.

"Piqueteros and agitators came prepared to fight. With firearms, woods and knitted cap ", said commissioner Franchiotti, head of the commando patrol that acted in Avellaneda.

"we were attacked with objects of all type, among them firearms", maintained the commissioner.

"We used rubber slugs at any moment. But we listened to firings of firearms. The demonstrators were with handies and filmadoras ", story the uniformed one.

"He was very similar to last December. Mainly by the violence and the sackings ", Franchiotti added, with the eye still covered with blood.

While the head of patrol commando gave his explanation, in the Departmental Delegation of Hill Investigations of Zamora a group of the Buenosairean police smoothed the premises of Left Together with, on the Brandsen street to the 1200, meters of the Fiorito hospital.

Mariano Vázquez, from 24 years, neighbor of the place, received a blow in the head that left it unconscious. He was during the operative one.

An excited crowd insulted the police, to meters of the Fiorito hospital, where they had transferred to both young died.

The violent disturbances that followed one another between the 11,40 and the 12,30 seemed to reiterate themselves.

To 16 still violence in Avellaneda was breathed. The passage in the Pueyrredón bridge was released.

Maria Jose Lucesole
With the collaboration of Adrián Martinez