The "no-bombs" of the G20: the false alarms of explosives accumulate in the city of Buenos Aires

Today in the morning, in a city in the shadow of 22 thousand soldiers security for the different operations of the G20 summit, The municipal police and its explosives division have activated the protocol of badysis and deactivation of the bomb six times, five alerts in one morning that gave no positive result.

A WhatsApp viralized message from the corner of the avenue July 9 and Marcelo T. de Alvear He said: "People, those who are on the street are walking carefully, have just launched the explosive of a car at a bus stop that has not exploded, the police are came and blew it up. " The Buenos Aires force has determined that It was a piece of refrigerator motor.

The mine clearance team also went to Corvalán Street of Villa Lugano, opposite the Juan Ángel Pirker Police School. for an old telgopor fridge abandoned who had a piece of ice to melt and a knife like Tramontina, the obvious rest of a night of fernet on public roads.

Nail branch of HSBC Bank in Reconquista StreetIt was also the center of another operation, with a pipe embedded in the path knotted with tape, which confused with a deadly explosive.

The raid of the division Explosivos porteña continued in the Belgrano station on the metro line E, with an old abandoned suitcase that eventually exploded. What appeared in the bathroom of Garrahan Hospital or it had a clearly intimidating purpose or it was a very bad joke: three blue tubes tied with tape with a tensiometer that looked like a timer simulate an explosive. Still the same thing: nothing.

The Federal Court No. 11 by Claudio Bonadío, in turn for what happens during the summit with the prosecutor Alejandra Mangano, ordered the seizure of objects with a rating of "public intimidation", the same cover that receives the bomb threats from students who do not want to pbad exams in high schools. The School Lenguas Vivas, in this agreement, reported a threat with the activation of the protocol.

The Federal Explosives Division acted instead. It was determined that it was another false alarm. The audio callas for it, it ended up viralised in networks and other instant messaging services, a same voice. A day later, the Explosivos division of Buenos Aires was close and evacuate the subway mouths around the obelisk for a mysterious object that turned out to be an old portable TV. Friday the 16th Aeroparque was eventually evacuated by a bag of old sheets marked "suspicious package".

The Tuesday 20 It was worse than the morning of today: municipal police and the PFA counted six more threats during the daythree in just five hours with paranoia rose to just over a week from the world leaders summit in Buenos Aires.

An intimidation received on line 911 talked about a supposed pump from Banco Galicia's central bank Peron Street has ended with two thousand evacuees, with other negative results at Fernández Hospital and in a San Martín train formation.

That same day in the afternoon, the federal government had to evacuate the Library of Congress on Yrigoyen Streetthis time for another fake explosive behind the backpack of a toilet. The same morning, the federal police had to deal with a broken dichroic lamp mistaken for a bomb for the residence of US Ambbadador Edward Prado in Palermo.

In total, according to police sources,Buenos Aires police investigated 17 alleged objects in the past two weeks, thirteen bomb threats in schools and three only in other places, including the headquarters of the federal police. Each release of the bomb team This involves sending at least one truck and two operators. Every alarm must be attended.

During, the real bombs are genuine, but rares: before the device that exploded in the tomb of Ramón Falcón, an anarchist group placed a an ATM at Santander Rio bank in Flores. Federal Justice is investigating both attacks.