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On July 31, 2014, a Senegalese was
insulted and beaten; his merchandise
was destroyed by a manager of a building in the Buenos Aires´ zone of Once
Neighborhood. The victim ended with a
neck brace. In 2000 Emanuele N'taka, a
young Afro-Argentine, was beaten and
insulted by a group of skinheads before
fifty witnesses in a busy commercial
area of the Belgrano Neighborhood. It is
always worth to review the case of the
Afro-Uruguayan José Delfín Acosta
Martínez, a researcher and popularizer
of the Afro-River Plate culture who was
arbitrarily arrested by the Buenos Aires
police on April 5, 1996. After being

beaten in the police station, he died in
route to hospital Ramos Mejia, just
where Ba had died weeks ago. The
press reported that narcotic overdose
and excess alcohol were the cause of
death. The police said the victim adopted an aggressive attitude, but several
inmates testified that gave cries of
suffering, as if he were tortured and
autopsy request presented by Uruguay
and practiced in May 1998 revealed the
presence of blows. In 2002 the case was
brought to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) in response to the closure of the criminal
case in Argentina.

Mobilization of Senegalese vendors in August 2015
In this sad inventory of multiple pressures, harassment and mistreatment of
Senegalese in Buenos Aires, there are
frequent intrusions in homes, threats
and even theft of goods and money, as
the police operation in January 2014,
which dismantled 30 points of sale in
the Buenos Aires´ zone of the Once

Neighborhood. The street vendors,
mostly Senegalese, reacted by closing
the public roads. Around three hundred
of them made also a remarkable protest
in August 2015 against the abuses of the
Metropolitan Police and local authorities.

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