Ámbito had access to the 160-page opinion. Ramiro González requests an investigation into serious injuries and gender violence against Fabiola Yáñez. Judge Ercolini will define whether to summon the former president.
Federal prosecutor Ramiro González requested the investigation of Alberto Fernández for different crimes that have Fabiola Yáñez as a victim and now federal judge Julián Ercolini must define whether to summon him. The former president could be sentenced to up to 18 years in prison.
“Indeed, in a context of gender violence marked by the particular asymmetrical power relationship with the aggressor, at least from 2016 until the complaint was formalized, Alberto Fernández systematically exercised psychological violence against Fabiola Yáñez in the forms of harassment, harassment, controls, indifference, insults, blaming, destitution, withdrawal of the word, ignorance and hostility,” says the 160-page opinion that Ámbito accessed. The investigation is an act of defense and Alberto Fernández would have the opportunity to refute the accusations of the prosecutor, who was recently confirmed in the case, after Ercolini rejected the request of the former president’s defense, led by Silvina Carreira. The judge also summoned the former president’s investigative statement. Alberto Fernandez in the case that investigates irregularities in the insurance contracting for public organizations during the Frente de Todos government.
In the case that has Yáñez as the alleged victim, Fernández is charged with two minor injuries twice aggravated by being committed through gender violence and against their then partner. According to the ruling, he is charged with serious injury due to the permanent weakening of the former first lady’s health – also doubly aggravated – and the crime of coercion so that Yánez would not report the acts of violence to the federal judge Ercolini.
To present its first conclusions, the Prosecutor’s Office collected evidence from the telephone numbers of María Cantero and Fabiola Yáñez; He took a statement from Yáñez, from María Cantero, from former mayor of Quinta Olivos Daniel Rodríguezto Fabiola’s mother and sister, to the journalist Alicia Barrios, to the presidential doctors Saavedra and Alem. The beautician also gave a testimonial statement. Florencia Aguirre, Sofia Pacchi, the nanny Noelia del Valle Gómez, the housekeeper Cinta Toniettiamong other people.
“The income and discharge records of Olivos for the entire presidential term were analyzed; the records of telephone calls between Alberto Fernández and Fabiola Yáñez since 2016; medical documentation from the Otamendi Sanatorium, the Fertilis clinic, the University Hospital were incorporated and analyzed of Madrid and the INECO Institute of Cognitive Neurology”, states the opinion.
Photos and videos provided by the complaint and the defense were also incorporated into the case; records of the official activity of the president and the then first lady: events, conferences, official trips. A media survey was carried out from which many other images, videos and public statements useful for the investigation were extracted and extensive psychological and psychiatric reports resulting from interviews of professionals with Fabiola Yáñez were added.
“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. According to the definitions of the Law 26,485 on Comprehensive Protection of Womenpsychological, physical and economic violence could be detected,” states the opinion, which adds that “during the couple’s coexistence in the Quinta de Olivos, neck grabs, shaking, slaps and various blows were reported that caused injuries to the body of the couple. Fabiola Yáñez”.
Then, different facts that were verified are mentioned: grabbing, shaking, hitting, etc., as well as requests to hide the physical attacks so that they would not become news, which led to professional psychologists from the Public Prosecutor’s Office “highlighting the emotional exhaustion of the victim and they noted the impact on their mood, will and vitality. To this they added the existence of a depressive emotional background with the predominance of feelings of humiliation, shame, loneliness, fear and mistrust.”
Source: Ambito
