The former Argentine president (2019-2023) was summoned by justice to be investigated as accused of injuries and threats to the detriment of his ex-partner, Fabiola Yañez, in a context of . After having managed to postpone his statement on two occasions, Fernández must appear on February 4 in the federal courts of Buenos Aires.
The former president had managed to buy time in the case with a request for the recusal of Judge Julián Ercolini and with a request to change the jurisdiction of the case. Both presentations were rejected and this Friday Ercolini called Fernández again to testify after the January judicial fair. After that instance, the judge will be able to decide whether or not to prosecute the accused.
The accusation includes the crimes of “minor injuries doubly aggravated by being committed through gender violence and against his then partner”, “a serious injury due to the permanent weakening of the health” of Yañez and “coercion” aimed at trying to prevent the victim from will file the complaint. The maximum penalty provided for the sum of these crimes is 18 years in prison.
“The analysis of all the evidence gathered in the case made it possible to prove that former President Fernández exercised different types of violence against his partner, practically, from the beginning of their relationship,” in 2016, until this year, as detailed by the prosecution in its opinion. , prepared after analyzing the evidence and taking statements from around twenty witnesses. He also specified that “psychological, physical and economic violence could be detected,” in the context of a “particular asymmetrical power relationship” between Fernández and Yañez.
This Thursday, Yañez assured that he continues to receive from Fernández “the same harassment” that generated his initial complaint. In particular, he accused the former president of exercising “psychological violence” against Francisco, their two-and-a-half-year-old son.
The case was built from a discovery made within the framework of another judicial investigation, by state agencies during the Fernández Government. When investigators analyzed the contents of the phone of the president’s former secretary, María Cantero, they found messages from Yañez recounting the violence she was suffering and photos that showed her with injuries to her face and arm.
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