Four referents of the self-styled Federal Revolution space were arrested this Thursday in the framework of a judicial case in which they are being investigated for promoting violent actions against political leaders and even for suggesting the possibility of an attack against Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Those arrested during the morning operations were Jonathan Ezekiel Morelreferent and spokesperson for the Federal Revolution, and the members of that space Leonardo Franco Sosa Y Gaston Ezequiel Guerrawho can be investigated this Friday, according to what was reported to Télam by judicial sources.
The arrests were made by the Airport Security Police (PSA) by order of federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi in the framework of an investigation that remains under summary secrecy and that was delegated to the prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita.
In the afternoon hours, Sabrina Basildaughter of soccer coach Alfio “Coco” Basile, who was wanted for her ties to the Federal Revolution, surrendered to justice and was transferred to the Airport Security Police (PSA), where she was detained, sources in the case informed Télam .
For researchers, the slogans and violent demonstrations carried out by the Federal Revolution since May of this year could have functioned as a “breeding ground, like the hate speech that triggered” the assassination attempt on the vice president, as Télam was able to know from judicial sources.
The arrests were activated during the morning after Morel undertook a bus trip to Paraná, Entre Ríos, which for the investigators posed a risk to the investigationas detailed to Télam sources of the case.
Morel was arrested in the city of Entre Ríos, while Sosa and Guerra were found in their respective homes in the province of Buenos Aires as part of a series of 11 raids carried out by the PSA.
in the raids cell phones, computers and other electronic devices were seized, in addition to materials useful for the manufacture of incendiary bombsas this agency was able to reconstruct.
The accusation
Detainees can be accused of organizing or being part of groups whose objective is to impose their ideas by force or instill fear in other peoplesources with access to the investigation explained to Télam.
Article 213 bis of the Criminal Code establishes that “whoever organizes or takes part in permanent or transitory groups that, without being included in article 210 of this code, had as their main or accessories impose their ideas or fight those of others by force or fear, for the sole fact of being a member of the association”.
They would also be blamed for the alleged incitement to collective violence against groups of people or institutions and the incitement to persecution or hatred against a person or groups of people because of their race, religion, nationality or political ideas.
The declarations
The arrests had been requested by the prosecutor Pollicita through an extensive opinion that he presented on Tuesday to Judge Martínez de Giorgi, in which he listed different violent demonstrations called by the Federal Revolution as well as the public, threatening statements made by their referents. .
This agency was able to find out that Among the demonstrations listed is the torchlight march convened on May 25 of this year in front of the National Congress under slogans such as “Enough of Cristina”, “Enough of Alberto”, “We are going to take them out” and “Van to run”.
Another of the demonstrations invoked by the prosecutor was the one held in Plaza de Mayo on July 9 under slogans such as “It is time to act” and “It is now or never”, which Morel attended with a large prop guillotine.
The messages published by the defendants on their social networks, their expressions in the media and the proposals they made in dialogues broadcast on Twitter Space, a tool used for virtual conferences or dialogues, were also considered by the court and the prosecution.
On August 26, for instance, during one of those talks entitled “You have to rot it,” a person who was supposed to be Morel proposed to infiltrate the Kirchnerist militancy that showed their support for the Vice President at the door of her houseto carry out an attack, something that actually happened five days later when Sabag Montiel tried to kill her.
“Today, for example, I saw how Cristina greeted La Cámpora and the militancy and said, it’s a shame that they already know my face because if you don’t know how I infiltrate there for a week and wait for it to come down… if the kids didn’t know me From La Cámpora I will sing the Peronist march there for 7 days in a row and as soon as I can I will go down in history,” said one of the participants in that public conversation.
This information was presented in the file by the head of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI)Agustín Rossi, who also provided the recordings of other public conversations published on social networks in which the possibility of attacking President Alberto Fernández was discussed.
Christina’s hypothesis
Vice President Fernández de Kirchner intervenes as a plaintiff in this file in which she is represented by the lawyers José Manuel Ubeira and Marcos Aldazabal, who also assist her in the case in which the attempted assassination is being investigated, which she is processing in the court of María Eugenia Capuchetti.
In the brief presented last Monday, when she requested to be considered as a plaintiff, the vice president maintained that she saw “probable” that there was some kind of link between the Revolution Federal organization and the people accused of having wanted to assassinate it.
“It is probable that the actions of the group were not limited to threats, instigations and preparation of crimes in the abstract, but that they have specifically participated in the attempted attack against me,” said the two-time President in the brief that her lawyers presented to her. Judge Martínez de Giorgi.
In that letter, the Vice President also focused on the possible financing of that organization that has Morel as a reference, the owner of a carpentry shop that recently received millionaire payments from Caputo Hermanos, a company made up of brothers of the former minister. of the Government of Together for Change Luis Caputo, although not for him.
The route of that money and its final destination is also under investigation by the justice system, which arranged to raid both the Buenos Aires headquarters of the firm Caputo Hermanos and that of two trusts through which the funds were channeled. payments to Morel’s carpentry.
Caputo Brothers made a spontaneous presentation on Wednesday night to make themselves available to justice and ensure that The payments made to Morel and his carpentry partners were for work carried out, photos of which were attached..
Among other decisions made this Thursday by Judge Martínez de Giorgi, is that of propose to different colleagues of Commodore Py that they refrain from continuing to intervene in cases of violent actions carried out by members of the Federal Revolution and that the cases be sent to him so that he can investigate them all together.
