“I want to kill the president”: they arrested a man in Uruguay who threatened Luis Lacalle Pou

The Uruguayan Interior Ministry reported on Sunday that Police officers on Saturday arrested a man who threatened to “kill” President Luis Lacalle Pou.

“We report that a man has been arrested who, in some videos which have gone viral today, threatens the President of the Republic,” the ministry said on its Twitter account.

The agency added that once “made available to the prosecution”, the public prosecutor Ana Valverdú ordered the individual, whom she did not identify, to appear before her on Monday, who will then decide whether or not to charge her.

“I wanted to leave a clear message and go viral: I want to kill the president”, said in one of the videos the subject, who identified himself as Agustin Cabrera, according to the Uruguayan newspaper The Observer.

In another video, he said his message was aimed at supporting three organizers of a recent anti-vaccine protest in Maldonado who were accused of “aggravated contempt” and who were prohibited from leaving the country for 90 days: Javier Sciuto, Fernando Vega and Fernando Ferreira.

These messages replied to the reporter Esteban Burnley, who asked people to make videos against the anti-vaccine protest, and the one who asked him in one of the tapes: “Who are you to tell me where to go out, with whom, until what time, what do I have to do? “

This protest took place last week in Plaza San Fernando de Maldonado. The demonstrators were informed by the authorities that they had to stop the city, because of the sanitary provisions. However, as the protest continued, the police intervened.

Juan Torres, member of the organization “Por la Truth”, told the local newspaper The country What “It is not against the virus, but against the legal sanitary provisions that we are trying to impose with systematic vaccination.”

Uruguay State Radio, for its part, reported that once the video with the threat went viral, the subject posted another recording in which he explained that his threats were not directed against the president of the republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, but rather a reference to a video game.

In the midst of these “anti-vaccine” demonstrators, 1,125,379 people were inoculated with the first dose of Chinese pharmaceutical companies Sinovac, Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca or the American Pfizer and 479,089 with the second from Pfizer or Sinovac. Currently, 32.13% of the population has received the first dose and 13.66% the second.

The country recorded 2,549 cases of covid-19 and 43 deaths on Sunday, according to the daily report presented by the National Emergency System (Sinae).

Since the health emergency was declared on March 13, 2020, Uruguay has reported a total of 184,865 infected, of which 28,050 are currently active and 531 of them in intensive care.

All the country’s departments are in the red zone according to the Harvard University index, accumulating more than 25 cases per 100,000 population in the past seven days.

The worst department is Río Negro (east) with 135.76 index cases, followed by Artigas (north) with 115.71, while the whole country has an index of 82.25.

With information from Télam, EFE and El País

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