Judge Julián Ercolini has decided to process the former Argentine president, Alberto Fernández, for sexist violence against his ex -wife, the first lady Fabiola Yáñez. After an extensive investigation process, in which Declaration was taken to Yáñez and more than a dozen witnesses, the judge accused Fernández as a criminal author for “crimes of minor injuries, aggravated by having committed in a context of gender violence and against their partner, repeated twice. “
The Argentine judge also resolved to seize the ex -president’s assets for a value of 10 million pesos (about 10 thousand dollars) and maintained Fernández’s restraining order to his ex -partner, to which he cannot approach a distance of less than 500 meters, so how to contact her by telephone, physics or digital. However, the magistrate does raise the prohibition of departure from the country of the former president, who will have to report his whereabouts.
Therefore, the judge has considered the evidence and testimonies provided by Yáñez’s defense proven. The former Argentine president, who will now have to go to oral trial for gender violence, faces a penalty between three and 18 years in prison.
In its resolution, Ercolini considered that there are “several elements that account for the existence of the usual and continuous character that would have acquired violence that, in different ways, would have exercised the accused Fernández on the one named Yáñez.” On the other hand, after analyzing the evidence of the prosecutor Ramiro Fernández, the judge said that the former president would have exercised psychological violence against his ex -partner under the forms of “harassment, harassment, controls, indifference, insults, blame, destroying, withdrawal of the word, ninguneos and hostility. “
Specifically, the former president has been prosecuted for two violent episodes: a punch in the right eye to the former first lady in the presidential residence of Quinta de los Olivos on June 21, 2021 and for grabbing her strongly from the arm, causing a bruise, In August of that same year.
Ercolini’s decision comes two weeks after the former president appeared before justice to provide an investigative statement in the case and denied through a letter having exercised violence against Yáñez.
Yáñez, 43 years of the crime of “minor injuries in context of gender violence.”
Fernández’s ex -partner presented a brief against the Argentine consulate in Madrid in which he assured that the abuses began in 2016 and alluded to blows and threats, as well as an abortion under pressure. Among the aggressions, he mentioned cortazos daily within the discussions, even in front of his son Francisco.
