An Argentine prosecutor has charged the former president Alberto Fernandez (2019-2023) for the alleged crime of serious injuries and coercive threats to the former first lady Fabiola YanezThe charge was made by federal prosecutor Ramiro González, in charge of the investigation opened by the complaint against Fernández filed by Yáñez for alleged gender-based violence.

With this accusation, the prosecutor requested to collect the first evidence within the framework of the Complaint filed based on photographs and conversations found by the Justice on the phone of Fernández’s secretary, as part of an investigation into alleged corruption in public procurement.

To the former president He is charged with the crimes of serious injuries doubly aggravated by the relationship and by occurring in a context of gender violence and coercive threats to the detriment of his ex-partner.who had testified before González on Tuesday from Madrid, where he resides. In his opinion, the prosecutor stated that Yáñez “She suffered a relationship marked by harassment, psychological harassment and physical aggression in a context of gender and domestic violence” based “on an asymmetric and unequal power relationship that has developed over time, which was exponentially increased by the election of Fernández as president” in 2019, and “the exercise of office” until last December.

According to the prosecutor, under “this structure of asymmetry,” Fernández would have “committed various criminally relevant acts,” including forcing Yáñez to have an abortion in 2016, “through a plan that constituted mistreatment, denial of speech, harassment,” by which the woman was “coerced” into making that decision, “causing her irreparable psychological damage.”

It also notes that on August 12, 2021 Fernandez He grabbed Yáñez by the arm “causing the injuries whose image can be seen” in a photo sent by Yáñez to María Cantero, the Peronist politician’s secretary. It also indicated that in July 2021 Fernández, while he was with Yáñez in bed in the ‘presidential suite’ of the official residence of Olivos, after an argument “hit him in the eye with his fist”, and that on August 11, 2021, after another argument, the then president “shook Yáñez by his arms, causing an injury to one of her limbs and held her by the neck with his hands.” The document also states that on August 12, 2021 Fernández kicked Yáñez in the stomach, “knowing that the aforementioned could be pregnant at that time.”

The prosecutor argued that During the first half of 2023, “Alberto Fernández regularly hit Yáñez with an open hand,” who decided to move with her son, Francisco, born in April 2022, to the Olivos guest house, where the former president “entered violently.”

The prosecutor also points out that Yáñez reported that, while he was on a trip to Foz de Iguazú (Brazil), She showed Ayelén Mazzina, then head of the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity, photos of the beatings she suffered and told her that she wanted to leave. from the Olivos residence, to which the then minister simply asked him to visit her at the Ministry “without taking any kind of measure in accordance with the role she played at that time.” Regarding this incident, the prosecutor ordered a separate investigation to be opened.

The prosecutor also says that on June 28, Yáñez received a call from his then lawyer, Juan Pablo Fioribello, who suggested that he not report Fernández. Yáñez also “reported having received various types of threats through calls and text messages, both from Alberto Fernández and from third parties in recent weeks.”