Overview

• Volunteers of the Todos por Todos foundation say that on August 17 Comisario Daniel Melchiori, dressed in civilian clothes, stopped their convoy on a rural road by threatening to block their vehicles and struck their driver.
• A medic identified as Candelaria was held at the Taco Pozo police station without being registered or allowed to file a complaint before her release hours later.
• Security Minister Hugo Matkovich has ordered an OCI intervention at the station and removed Melchiori from duty pending an internal review.
• The Fiscalía de Sáenz Peña has received the case file and will determine whether to press criminal charges for assault and unlawful detention.
• Local lawyers and residents report that Melchiori faces more than 20 prior complaints of abuse of authority, reflecting a broader climate of fear in the community.