The "threat" at Pettovello’s house and the mystery of the second call

The first thing to say is that there is no type of evidence indicating that someone has tried to enter the house of Minister Sandra Pettovello, in a neighborhood of Moreno.

The second thing is that, despite the logical and immediate impact on the strange episode, Moreno’s prosecutor’s office 1 is investigating the incident. ex officio because there, more than 24 hours after it happened, no one had made any complaint.

According to the police report, a man named Marcelo Rubén basillot (actually, his last name is Basilotta) called 911 on Monday saying he had heard noises at the house on Lot 4, owned by Pettovello, who was not there.

The Police entered the designated lot next to the man “finding no visible anomalies, no damage, no missing items”.

When they called the minister, she arrived, checked the house and said that everything was fine and nothing was missing.

The police left. End of episode.

The mystery came later.

Another call to 911, at 7:32 p.m. on the same Monday, was recorded as follows: “Suspects try to enter the house of the Minister of Human Capital Sandra Pettovello; “they break the perimeter fence”.

The Police returned to the neighborhood where they had been a while before and spoke again with Basilotta, who told them that he I didn’t have any news about what they had already seen and assured them – this is what now draws the attention of prosecutors – that It wasn’t him who called 911 the second time.

It is at this moment when the Police tour the perimeter fence of the neighborhood – a small semi-closed urbanization, with unguarded access and 10 lots in 3 hectares – and find “two cowherds cut off”.

The boars are electrical wires, although these They were not connected to the power.

The cuts were found in the neighborhood fence, far from the minister’s house.

The police report, signed by commissioners Darío Alegre and Antonio Zalazar, adds that it could not be determined if the wires were cut that day or if they were already that way.

As a result of the episode, the government assured that it was an intimidation of Pettovello, for fighting against the mafias.

“It is a consequence of the largest corruption exposure that has taken place in Argentina in recent decades”said the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni.

But who made the second call to 911, after which the wire appeared cut?

In the Buenos Aires Ministry of Security they say that it is not essential to verify the identity of the caller because someone can prevent something in good faith sheltering in anonymity.

Some government plant made the journalists run fast, on Monday night, which could have been “an intern between intelligence services”.

To scare the minister or to benefit her image, after several weeks at the center of the storm over the issue of undistributed food?

A new director has just taken over at the AFI (the previous one left after Pettovello felt “spied on” by data from a trip to Punta del Este) and anything is possible between spies seeking to reposition themselves. But it is not a hypothesis that Patricia Bullrich’s Security people are looking at, who follow the case carefully.

Other sources were looking for more information about the author of the first 911 call.

Marcelo Basilotta It’s not just any neighbor.

He is close to the minister due to family ties – both are descendants of the founders of the alfajores factory. Guaymallen– and for having been your official until she fired him.

This year, Basilotta left the General Rodríguez Deliberative Council to take over as director of the Casa Patria Grande Néstor Kirchnerwhich is where Pettovello set up his bunker.

It lasted only 37 days.

After changing the name to Homeland Freedom House, Basilotta resigned on March 21. At the Ministry they said that he left because “irregularities in its management”.