Global Courant 2023-05-10 02:55:20
The case of the 57-year-old woman abused in Costanera Sur put the focus on the security of that area of Puerto Madero.
A 57-year-old woman denounced that she was raped in the Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve while she was doing physical activity. The sexual abuse was confirmed by the director of the Emergency Medical Care System (SAME), Alberto Crescenti and the victim, transferred to the Argerich Hospital.
The police intervention deployed a lock operation on the Camino de los Alisos and a sweep was made on the timeline of all the cameras that are in the area and on the perimeter. The reserve, located in Puerto Madero, is visited by dozens of people every day, from neighbors who choose it to go for a walk, people who come to practice sports and even foreign tourists. The case raises the question of what security is like within the 350-hectare property.
Official sources told Clarín that the Costanera Sur Ecological Reserve has private security personnel and surveillance cameras that are located at the accesses. In addition, there are park rangers from the Reserve who constantly walk the internal roads of the property.
“The General Directorate of Conservation Areas has a security protocol in the face of this type of situation in the ecological reserves of the City of Buenos Aires. In the event of a complaint, the property is closed. In addition, the City Police are immediately notified and SAME”, they pointed out from the City Security area.
The Police searched for the rapist by land and air but so far he has not been located. Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi
On the other hand, the perimeter of the Reserve is within the territorial deployment of the City Police in Puerto Madero, which runs through the area with patrol cars, motorcycles and personnel on bicycles. In the event of any emergency, call 911, the staff goes inside the Reserve.
In the area bordering the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood is the police deployment of the Neighborhood Protection Unit, which has a detachment and travels the streets in three-wheelers and with quadricycles.
Likewise, the surroundings of the Reserve are monitored with security cameras that are monitored by the Urban Monitoring Center.
The City Police is in charge of the security of the perimeter of the Ecological Reserve. Photo Luciano Thieberger
Within the property there is also a Fire Department that specifically monitors the area and is the first responder in the event of a fire.
The Reserve has 350 hectares (300 are inaccessible) that include 4 lagoons and borders the Río de la Plata. The property works on the conservation and preservation of the fauna and flora typical of this region. From Monday to Friday about 2,300 people visit it per day. In all of March, 116,950 people visited it.
“There are about 15 monitoring points that surround the reserve from the northern access to the southern access and the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood,” official sources said. Regarding the perimeter fences that were vandalized, they indicated that there is an embankment between the reserve and the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood.
as far as he could tell Clarion, through a former police officer who knows the area, there are only security cameras at the entrances. “Inside the property there are none because people vandalize them,” says this source.
The reserve is visited by 2,300 people per day. Photo Luciano Thieberger
Security within the Reserve is dynamic. The City Police guard outside the premises between 6 and 22 and then upon request. A private security company, Murata SA, also participates, collaborating with 8 guards.
The Ecological Reserve
The Ecological Reserve has 350 hectares and two accesses. The one at Viamonte is the closest to Camino de Los Alisos, where the attack took place. The other is about Brazil.
The property was evicted by the City Police who are raking the area to find the attacker, if he is hiding within the reserve. And they analyze exits from the surroundings such as an area that borders the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood. One of the speculations is that he could know the terrain and have escaped by swimming to the neighborhood.
City Police sources indicated that “search dogs are being raked” with the traces collected at the scene with teams “specialists in inaccessible areas.” For that, they fenced off the place of the attack and closed the perimeter to collect samples.
“A sweep is being carried out on the time line of all the cameras that we have in the area and on the perimeter. In addition, controls are being carried out in the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood, which is the potential escape route,” they added to Clarín.
The investigation into the attack was left in the hands of the Prosecutor’s Office No. 17, in charge of Federico Iuspa.
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