Case against Alberto Fernández: the former head of the Quinta de Olivos testified and said he was unaware of any gender violence

Rodríguez, who had a close relationship both at work and personally with Fernández, appeared this Monday in Comodoro Py to testify before the judge after 10 a.m. Julian Ercolini.

In his statements, denied before the prosecutor Ramiro Gonzalez know facts about violence between Alberto Fernández and Fabiola Yañez, the only thing he admitted to knowing was an episode where Yañez would have fallen in one bathtub in 2023. After more than five hours After making statements, Rodriguez left the court after 3:00 p.m.

While working in Olive trees, He did not use (nor does he currently) social media nor did he have contact with the press; his relationship with the former president goes back a long way: since the presidency of Néstor Kirchner.

He was even Fernández’s guard when he was chief of staff. Kirchner. He then became his personal driver, cadet and secretary until, finally, he was in charge of the residence of Olive trees. Therefore, his statement was fundamental for Justice since he could not not know what was happening inside the presidential residence.

Still the details of the statements of Rodriguez They were not widely disseminated but many gained interest in the face of the revelations that the newspaper La Nación made weeks ago, regarding the fact that the driver had witnessed and intervened in Olivos, on at least one occasion in the fights between the couple.

According to the publications, it would not have been the first time that Rodriguez had to intervene between the former President and the former First Lady, separate them and remove Fernandez to ease the situation. The position he held during the Olivos estate made him a intermediary between the two parties.

The first witnesses testify in the Fernández-Yáñez case

In the federal courts of Comoro Py, the former secretary of the former presidentMaria Canteroconfirmed on Thursday the veracity of the chats with the former first lady, Fabiola Yañez, where the violence against her is recounted. Journalist Alicia Barrios testified beforehand.

Cantero’s testimony was highly anticipated because the case was revealed after an expert examination of his phone in the framework of the Insurance case. Before prosecutor Ramiro González, He maintained that the chats and photos found in August 2021 where the then first lady told him about the beatings she received “are real.” Also, on more than one occasion, Yañez told him about similar attacks.

The Former Secretary of Alberto Fernandez He did not provide any major new information to the case, but he did confirm much of the evidence collected and part of the complaint by Fabiola Yañez, whom he described as “a victim.”. He acknowledged that the photos showing the former first lady with bruises were sent to his cell phone and located that exchange exactly one year after the meeting in Olivos held in the middle of quarantine, and one month after the PASO that the Fernández Government lost.