👉 24 trabajadores de la construcción traídos engañados desde provincias del norte, vivían en condiciones deplorables mientras realizaban trabajos para desarrollos de lujo en Tigre que lleva dos años de construcción.
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00:00In this building, a complaint was filed, which is really incredible and that causes an impact because 24 people were reduced to servitude, I tell you, by labor exploitation and their freedom was also restricted.
00:20They were workers who worked in the construction of this real estate venture that you are going to see in full construction.
00:27Well, look, let's see, the place where they were, and I'm going to tell you part of this story, is this one.
00:34What is the worst place that a building has, and it is obviously an uninhabitable place, is this one, the one we see here in the background.
00:43The car park, down, a place where there is no light, where there is no water, where obviously the conditions are to keep cars and not for people to live.
00:52In that place there were 24 people who worked as construction workers in this building.
01:00Yes, they were, look, from a complaint that has to be born because one of the workers, what happened to him?
01:07He suffered an accident, obviously, working in the work. What happened to him? He suffered an accident with the grinder.
01:15He suffered an accident. Generally, accidents with the grinder are usually serious.
01:20And well, he could not be treated in a hospital, they forbade him, they forbade him to go out.
01:25Once he was able to escape, I would say, from this situation, he went and made the complaint.
01:31From there, an investigation is unleashed, which brings, yes, apart from, obviously, the prosecution of the federal judge number one of San Isidro,
01:41from Judge Arroyo Salgado to this place, and federal police officers.
01:46When they arrive, they begin to search and find that the part of the car park, in a part of the car park,
01:52almost covered by a Durlock wall, there were these four, these 24 people, sorry, 24 people,
02:00housed in infrahuman conditions, I would tell you, because they had no access to the light, they slept almost all together,
02:0814 hours of work, a very low salary, yes, which, obviously, they also administered to those who were here.
02:17For this investigation, the architect who carried out the work ends up arrested.
02:22One of the investors and also the contractor who was the one who gave the orders.
02:28He is a man named Carlos, who was the one who controlled these workers,
02:33I tell you, almost to the servitude, under labor exploitation, and as I told you, and many times restricted freedom.
02:41That is why this is a matter of investigation.
02:44They have already declared, all of them, but well, the stories that are told are tremendous.
02:49People in general, another detail, are people in general brought from Salta to work.
02:55That is, in a place, this is the corner of Milber in Tigre,
02:59in a place where there are people around, obviously, who need work,
03:03well, they bring people from Salta, obviously promising them certain conditions,
03:09that once they arrived here, they do not comply.
03:12That is also why this judicial cause, Fer.
03:1424, yes, 24 workers who are in conditions of exploitation.
03:18It is one of the newest constructions in that sector of Tigre, very well located,
03:22because it has restaurants in front of it, a new supermarket,
03:25which was noticed because it had hired about 600 people,
03:28and the ideas are local and housing suitable for professionals.
03:32In the last year and a half, two years, the process of this construction was carried out, which is still missing, right?
03:38As we see, it is still missing.
03:40And what Leo was saying, that the particular stories of each of them are the ones that move, right?
03:46The way in which they were brought, the way in which they are treated.
03:50Exactly, Fer.
03:52People who are brought from the province of the interior, from Salta,
03:57who promise them that they are going to work in a certain way,
04:00as is often done with everything that has to do with slave labor,
04:04or with the treatment of people, where there is a promise,
04:07then when they arrive at the place, they do not comply with that.
04:10Many times they restrict your documents, they restrict your freedom.
04:15Of course, they keep the documents, they press them, they restrict their freedom, as Leo said.
04:20We saw some images and messages and posters and conditions in which they lived.
04:27Look at the image that we are seeing of the way they lived,
04:32how they had the schedules restricted in a rather disorganized way,
04:38but the messages we saw were not the way an employee is treated.
04:44No, not at all.
04:45Fourteen hours of work, Fer. Fourteen hours of work in construction.
04:50Obviously, everything out of order, without being written down.
04:54Well, here, when they arrived, they found everything that was illegal,
04:59from the hiring, the conditions in which they were, and the treatment they received.
05:03You just said, Leo, that Judge Arroyo Salgado intervenes,
05:07because it is an enterprise that is in the province of Buenos Aires.
05:11Ordinary justice should intervene in the province,
05:13not because we are already in a case of human trafficking.
05:17It is a case of exploitation with trafficking.
05:19The intervention that PROTEX also has,
05:22is something that is not commonly seen,
05:25it is practically reduced to slavery, but the federal competition,
05:29that is why today we see the federal police doing the raids,
05:32which were also carried out, raids that resulted in the kidnapping of weapons,
05:37high-end vehicles, and important sums of money.
05:41It is a very large network, not just the contractor, the architect,
05:44two investors who are still being investigated,
05:46because it is understood that this mechanism has been used in other works as well.
05:52Of course, they had people in conditions of slavery,
05:55they had them for an extreme amount of hours, on top of a construction work.
05:58They took out the document so that they could not leave.
06:00It is, they removed the document from them,
06:03and in that way they ordered them, it is not an order,
06:07but in that way they had them living in informal conditions.
06:10Well, we relate trafficking to sexual issues, prostitution.
06:15No?
06:16Of course not.
06:17Evidently this still exists, it seems that it is prehistory, but it exists.
06:20And apart...
06:21Yes, Germán.
06:22Yes.
06:23Germán Fer, apart from the mechanism of catching people,
06:27that is also part of the crime of trafficking,
06:30where there is a promise that is obviously unfulfilled,
06:34and they brought it from that, from Salta,
06:36people who obviously brought from Salta.
06:39Here they did not have much greater contact or possibilities of moving in the area,
06:43because they came from other places.
06:45That also made the crime of having them there almost prisoners, I would tell you.
06:49An element that is also important is,
06:52from this obviously it will also begin to see
06:55where the capital came from for this construction.
06:58Of course, to begin to see the origin of the capital
07:00and understand how this structure was built,
07:03where they caught the workers,
07:05they lied to them about the conditions,
07:07they took away their documentation,
07:09they had them 14 or more hours working,
07:11they had them in infrahuman conditions,
07:13and surely that was the beginning, right?
07:16When they finished this work, they would go to another,
07:18or they would generate another similar business.
07:21Of course.
07:22Well, raids in the city of Buenos Aires, in the province and also in Salta,
07:26precisely what Salta has to do with what Leo was telling,
07:29one of the origins, right?
07:31Where they caught the greatest number of workers
07:34for those miserable conditions and salaries.
07:42Well, Leo, in a little while we will return with more information from the place.
07:46Okay.
07:47And with these images that we saw,
07:49let's see a little of the images of the way
07:51in which these 24 workers were
07:53in exploitation conditions,
07:55with those posters, with those messages,
07:5714 hours or more working,
07:59having been hired,
08:03with conditions that were not met when they arrived at the destination,
08:06and they retained the documentation.
08:09The situation is very serious,
08:11that is why the raids and the investigation continue.