Security forces repressed with gas and rubber bullets retirees, press workers, trade unions and dozens of soccer club supporters in the vicinity of the National Congress.

The gendarmerie advanced on the demonstrators and an elderly woman was wounded in the head while other people tried to assist her, reports the local Argentinean press. According to press sources, the victim is Beatriz Blanco, 87 years old, who was taken to the Argerich Hospital for a head injury.

There are also reports of the presence of infiltrators in the peaceful demonstration. According to newspaper reports, the demonstrators denounced that a group of people with their faces covered tried to enter the protest with stones.

“They have to leave, these people are out of their minds,” said one of the demonstrators to television in the midst of a huge police deployment that included dozens of security personnel in the vicinity of the Parliament.

Retired people, together with supporters of different soccer teams, are demonstrating this Wednesday afternoon outside the National Congress to demand an increase in their income and the improvement of their living conditions.

With the massive adhesion of the soccer world to the retirees’ demand, an iconic phrase of Diego Armando Maradona once again came into force this week. “You have to be a big shit not to defend the retirees. I am with the retirees to death. What they are doing to them is a disgrace”, was the phrase of the Argentine soccer idol that is the slogan of the call.