He Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, defended in the Senate a bill what are you looking for aggravate penalties for the crimes of false accusations and false testimony. Its objective is to provide greater punishment to those who use judicial elements for their own benefit.
pretend that those “false testimonies” be punished more harshly that are linked to complaints of gender violence. This is because, according to him, it produces irreversible consequences.
In his speech, he stated: “The false allegations They are a crime that cannot go unpunished. Accusing an innocent person of crimes he never committed and ruining his life is a act of evil that he must be punished accordingly.”
“Our reform of Penal Code proposes more severe penalties for the crimes of false denunciation and false testimonyensuring that Justice is relentless with those who use lies to destroy lives and harm others,” he added.
He stressed that This initiative is essential to restore confidence in justice and maintained that “the new Argentina is in a process of moral regeneration and restoration of order unprecedented in the last 100 years.
“We are going to be ruthless with those who commit crimes and also with those who falsely accuse. Because we have only one mission: to protect Argentinians well,” he asserted.
Likewise, he maintained that “the current Penal Code was created in 1921, before the Second World War. It is more than 100 years old. As an attempt at a solution, our Penal Code has suffered around 900 partial renovations”.
Then he added: “We have the mandate of a moral regeneration, of a sanitation of the institutions. Justice, far from being an exception, is an area that, due to its poor functioning It is one of the institutions that has the least approval on the part of the citizens.”
He explained that “the practice of false reporting not only harms the person who is the victim of that report but also harms harms the entire system in general because it attacks the credibility of the institutions.”
“It is an abuse that seriously harms the person who is falsely accused and produces totally unjust consequences such as prison, suicide, the destruction of a familypreventing a father from seeing his child, family and social discredit, job loss, among other equally painful and harmful effects. There are plenty of cases,” he said.
For this reason, he said that “with this law, what we are looking for is that those who seek to take advantage of the judicial system through lies and deception are punished to harm others and obtain illegitimate benefits.”
The minister targeted feminism
In turn, the minister questioned that “certain radicalized political sectors have wanted to install and make us believe the dogma of ‘I believe you sister’. I ask you not to misunderstand me. Of course, as a society we must promote and support that women who are really victims of violence make the corresponding complaintia, and that the aggressors be punished”.
“But radicalization and the promotion of hatred towards man have enabled people who had not committed any crime to be falsely accused in some cases. As false allegations come to light, their credibility is diminished to true complaints,” he stressed.
In this way he emphasized: “We are here because we really We care about protecting all victims of violenceto. “We have already seen the catastrophic results that came from putting these painful issues to political use.”
Finally, he highlighted that The current penalties for these crimes are insufficient. In this way he proposed a regime where there is “a more serious penalty for false complaints” and where the penalty is aggravated “when it comes to complaints of gender violence due to the greater damage it causes.”; the decision destroys a family or impedes family relationships; or complaints to a public official”.
Source: Ambito
