The former first lady spoke for four hours before prosecutor Ramiro González. She stated that the former president also consumed alcohol, gave details of the attacks and anticipated that he will contribute new chats to the cause. The first test measures are expected
By Patricia Blanco y Martin Angulo
He broke down three times in the four hours in which he spoke for the first time in court. The former first lady Fabiola Yanez ratified today in court the accusations against the former president Alberto Fernández due to gender violence, spoke of new episodes (when he grabbed her by the neck) and promised that he provided new evidence, mainly chats with other people. He also told the federal prosecutor Ramiro Gonzalez that due to the episodes of violence he began to consume alcohol and marijuana and that the former president also drank alcohol.
“He drank and hung out with his hippie friends who smoked marijuana.”said Yanez. Judicial sources informed Infobae that now the prosecutor will analyze the first measures of evidence in the file to corroborate Yañez's statements in a file that is no longer under summary secrecy.
According to the sources consulted, in the 3 hours and 40 minutes that the statement lasted, Yañez broke down three times when remembering what happened and for the first time before judicial authorities. This led to interruptions to drink water and a short rest. As it was via videoconference, the hearing was recorded.
Yañez ratified everything he presented in writing to the court yesterday and gave more details on some aspects. Thus it was possible to specify that she recounted three episodes of physical violence in detail. In one of them she even reported that Fernández grabbed her by the neck to hold her down. She also gave details of the blows she received in the eye and on her arm, the photos of which were already known and which he had sent to Maria Cantero, former secretary of Alberto Fernández and whose conversations were known due to the insurance case in which the former president is also being investigated. According to her, she was able to know Infobae, The injury to the eye and arm occurred prior to the scandal at the Olivos party.
The former first lady also mentioned Federico Saavedra, former head of the Presidential Medical Unit. He confirmed what he said yesterday in his letter: that in response to one of Fernández's physical attacks, Saavedra He gave arnica globules and told him that it would go away with time. Today he added that Saavedra knew of other attacks and that he did not want to ask him about what had happened.
Another former official mentioned was Ayelen Mazzina, former Minister of Women in the Fernández government. Fabiola confirmed that on a trip to Brazil she showed him photos of the attacks and a video of a woman having sex with the then president and that she told him that he was in the Ministry. She said that days later she ran into her again and that Mazzina asked her if she was better. Now Yañez said that in recent days the former minister wrote to her on WhatsApp to tell her that she didn't know anything. Yañez will bring that chat to justice. The same as other documents she said he has to accompany.
Another section of his statement referred to the abortion that he detailed yesterday in the document he presented in court. “He told me 'you have to solve it, you have to abort'”, Yañez said in his presentation.
He also confirmed that the episodes of psychological violence began in 2016 when they began to live together in Puerto Madero. Yañez said that because of the physical attacks she began to consume alcohol and marijuana. In that context he reported that 2023 was the most violent of all. Also that she was controlling and that every time she went out Fernández constantly called her to find out where and who she was with.
The Olivos party was also part of his declaration. Yañez said that the organizer was Fernández, he was even the one who sent to buy the cake, and that after the fact became known he held her responsible for the failure of his government. She also reported that she had to ask for psychiatric help and that she was treated at the INECO institute.
The day had begun with a dispute with Alberto Fernández's defense. The judge Julian Ercolini accepted a request from the complaint for the former president's lawyer, Silvina Carreira, cannot be at the hearing because it is a way of re-victimizing the complainant. Carreira had arrived five minutes before the statement to the fifth floor of Comodoro Py - where the Prosecutor's Office is located - to be present. Yesterday he had been informed of the hearing.
But the secretaries of the Prosecutor's Office told him of the judge's decision. “The statement is not valid”Carreira said in dialogue with the press after retiring from the courts. “If she can give an extensive interview on television, the situation does not revictimize her so much”, he said and pointed out that he was not allowed to leave written questions for Yañez either. He also maintained that he offered not to be in Yañez's sight when he testifies and that her questions be asked by someone else. Carreira assured that she will make all the corresponding presentations, including the annulment of the hearing.
Yesterday the former president's first opinion on the case was known in an interview with the Spanish newspaper “El País”. “I keep saying the same thing. I am being accused of something I have not done. I haven't hit Fabiola. “I have never hit a woman.”, he maintained and added that “There is someone who has encouraged her” Yañez to file the complaint against him.
The hearing took place after yesterday Yañez presented with his lawyer his first brief of the case in which he provided information about the facts. She said that the attacks were constant, that the psychological and verbal abuse began when the couple began in 2016 and that her former president forced her to abort her first pregnancy.
In another section he maintained that “the mistreatment, harassment, contempt, attacks, beatings were constant” and requested that the case investigate the crimes of serious injuries in the context of gender violence aggravated by the bond, abuse of power and authority, and coercive threats. and accused Ayelen Mazzina, second Minister of Women in the Fernández government, of knowing about the acts of violence and of having done nothing, what today the former official said was false.
The case is no longer under summary secrecy. What is now expected is the formal accusation against Fernández and the first measures of evidence to search for elements that ratify the complaint. Also pending resolution is the request from Fernández's defense for the judicial case to be processed in the federal court of San Isidro.
was always a cat
Nobody is with that fat moron for love
So the drunk cat is not a victim.