Prosecutor Ramiro González has formally charged former Argentine President Alberto Fernández with alleged crimes of “serious aggravated injury” and “threats of coercion” against the former first lady. Fabiola Yanez.

“The facts that are the subject of the trial derive from a history that reveals a context of gender violence based on an asymmetrical and unequal power relationship that has developed over time,” says an article compiled by the Clarín newspaper.

According to the prosecutor, this situation “worsened exponentially” after Fernandez was elected president. Detailed Nine acts of violence against Yanezincluding when he forced her to have an abortion in 2016.

“He suffered from a relationship characterised by stalking, psychological harassment and physical attacks in the context of gender-based and domestic violence,” he said, adding that it developed within the context of “asymmetrical and unequal power relations”.

Similarly, the prosecutor describes how the former Argentine president held Yanez by the arm on August 12, 2021, causing him injuries, and in July of the same year, he hit him in the eye during an argument.

González details other episodes, such as the time the former president “kicked her in the stomach,” even though she may have been pregnant, or when he grabbed her by the neck. “Fernández hit Fabiola Yáñez with an open hand,” the prosecutor’s letter says.

“He reported receiving various types of threats through calls and text messages, both from Alberto Fernandez and from third parties. Among them was a message or call that Alberto Fernandez had died,” he adds.

The prosecutor also called to testify the former doctor of the Argentine president, Federico Saavedra; his former secretary, Maria Cantera; journalist Alicia Barrios; now a friend of the former first lady, Sofia Pacci.

He also ordered the release of video recordings from the Quinta de Olivos residence’s surveillance cameras for the past two years, as well as the payroll records of the domestic staff of the chalet and the Quinta de Olivos guest house, collected by the newspaper La Nación.

Among the extensive measures, the prosecutor requested information from the presidential medical team about Yañez’s visits to the doctor between December 2019 and December 2023, and also requested medical records for 2016 and 2017 at two other centers.

In a letter sent yesterday, the former first lady said Fernandez’s “acts of harassment, abuse and contempt” began eight years ago, in 2016. Among the attacks, she mentioned spanks daily in discussions, even in front of his son Francisco.

In support of the serious, rather than petty, assault charge he was initially charged with, he argued that the injuries he sustained resulted in bodily harm. psychological damage that prevented him from performing his functions and leading a normal lifeso they prescribed medicine.

Yáñez had come the day before for almost four hours from the Argentine consulate in Madrid and testified that she had started drinking alcohol because of the violence her ex-husband had used against her. He confirmed everything he had said in his letter and said, among other things, that Saavedra had prescribed him arnica pellets to treat the blow Fernández had given him in the eye.

Federal Judge Julián Ercolini initially ordered Fernández to stay away from his ex-wife as part of the first set of measures in the gender violence investigation after Yáñez filed the first complaint.

MILEIA REACTION

Argentine President Javier Miley took advantage of a speech he gave Wednesday at a Buenos Aires hotel to attack Fernandez, whom he had called “the most powerful man in the world” the day before. “A champion of feminism who ended up beating his wife.”

“We Argentines have already realized that this whole story of benefactors is a fraud in the service of oppression. We have already realized that those who always pretend to be the champions of morality and defenders of the hopeless end up being the perpetrators of the worst crimes,” he emphasized, hinting at Fernandez.

Upon hearing of the complaint, Miley assured that “the solution to the problem of violence that psychopaths inflict on women is not to create a Ministry of Women’s Affairs” and criticized the “scam” that she believed “gender policy” had entailed.

(Europe Press).