Under the slogans of “Justice for Thelma” and “for Thelma and for all”, the feminist group called for a “forceful ruling” against Darthés.
The Argentine actress Thelma Fardin He appeared this Tuesday before the Prosecutor’s Office to give a statement in the framework of the trial that is being held in Brazil for the complaint of violation that he presented against the also actor Juan Darthés, who settled in that country after being denounced in 2018.
Actress Thelma Fardín denounced that Juan Darthés raped her during the recording of ‘Ugly Duckling’
“Whatever the ruling, the oral trial of Darthés is a triumph in itself. We are together, once again, to embrace Thelma, ask that her abuser be convicted and reaffirm that this is a path that for women and dissidents in Latin America has no turning back “, he asserted Dolores Fonzi, spokeswoman for the Actrices Argentinas collective, in front of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Buenos Aires where Fardín came to testify.
Under the slogans of “Justice for Thelma” and “for Thelma and for all”, the feminist group called for a “forceful ruling” against Darthés, recalling that only 1% of complaints of sexual abuse end in a final conviction.
On December 11, 2018, Thelma Fardín publicly accused Juan Darthés of sexual abuse during a tour of Nicaragua in 2009, when she was 16 and he was 45, to promote the series Ugly Duckling.
These events, which had a great repercussion in Argentina at that time, were denied in a television interview by Darthés, who assured that “he never” raped “anyone” and that it was Fardin herself who tried to seduce him.
After filing the complaint in Nicaragua and the Prosecutor’s Office of this country formally accused Darthés for a crime of “aggravated rape”, the actor moved to Brazil, the country where he was born and where he currently remains.
In fact, Interpol issued in November 2019 an international arrest warrant to detain the interpreter, since Nicaragua and Brazil do not have extradition agreements in common.
Two years after these events, this Tuesday the oral trial finally started in Brazil, which will be carried out electronically for the coronavirus pandemic.
The case, which marked a historical precedent due to the collaboration of the prosecutors’ offices of three countries in the area of gender violence, is under summary secrecy, so the hearing will not be made public.
“When the events happened, I was a girl. Today I am a woman with many more tools to go through this process (…). If we dare to speak, we need Justice to give us an answer “Thelma Fardín said in a video published this Monday by Amnesty International. (I)
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