The federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi refused to release the four members of Federal Revolution detained in the framework of a case in which they are being investigated for alleged incitement to violence and for being part of an organization that seeks to impose its ideas through force or fear.
In line with the opinion of the prosecutor Gerardo Pollicitathe magistrate considered that the defendants Jonathan Morel, Leonardo Sosa, Gaston Guerra and Sabrina Basile -daughter of Alfio Basile, former coach of the Argentine soccer team- could put the investigation at risk, to the point of trying to intimidate witnesses, if they are released.
In the case of Basilthe magistrate maintains in his resolution, to which Télam had access, that “the material collected throughout the investigation reveals the poor adherence to the rules” by the accused, and that “leads to presume that, in If he regains his freedom, he could even collaborate in operations dedicated to intimidating victims and witnesses”.
“All this becomes plausible if one considers the fear generated in the first place by the public activity carried out and which was the object of the group (Federal Revolution) since its formation and, in particular, that the study of cell phones and notebooks seized in the case, could shed information on still unknown third parties, who could receive some kind of pressure from those who are now detained”.
For the magistrate, the state of freedom of Basil “At this time of the investigation, it could also hinder the rest of the proceedings requested by the prosecutor, which could be linked to the facts investigated in the case of the National Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 5 of the attack on the Vice President of the Nation, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner”.
Moral, Sosa, Guerra and Basile were arrested last Thursday by order of Martínez de Giorgi, who instructs in a case that is being followed by the threats that the Federal Revolution group made against the Vice President, and it is being analyzed whether this space could have had any connection with the people who are detained for having tried to assassinate the former president on September 1.
On Friday, when testifying before the judge, Morel maintained that he was not “to blame” for “a madman” wanted to kill Fernández de Kirchner and denied the accusations against him, according to his defense sources.
Morel He was the second to give an investigative statement after Sabrina Basile did, while the other two detainees, Leonardo Sosa and Gastón Guerra, refused to testify, according to judicial sources informed Télam.
“It’s not my fault that a madman wanted to kill the vice president,” Morel said during the presentation he made as part of his investigation, in which he referred to what the internal life of the Federal Revolution was like and the tenor of his public demonstrations, according to the sources consulted.
There he also explained that after Fernando André Sabag Montiel tried to assassinate Fernández de Kirchner, the Federal Revolution decided to stop its demonstrations because there was no “climate” to continue.
Before Morel had declared Basile, who also denied having committed any crime and demanded that his request for release be processed urgently because he is in charge of caring for his father.
Assisted by the lawyer Martín Sarubbi, Basile explained his link with the Federal Revolution and with the other defendants in the case: He said that he met them on July 3 in the framework of the protests held in front of the Quinta de Olivos, the day on which the Government decided to suspend the press conference announcing the assumption of Silvina Batakis in the Ministry of Economy.
She explained that after that demonstration they added her to a WhatsApp group and that later she continued to participate in other marches to which each one brought what they had and what they wanted, for which she ruled out – before questions from her defense and the prosecution – that Federal Revolution will have some type of financing.
In this context, he assured that he had no intention of destabilizing or attacking anyone and that he only made use of his right to protest against the entire political arc, reported judicial sources who explained that his criticism was not only against the national government.
Basile assured that the operation of the Federal Revolution was anarchic and denied having links with the people charged in the case in which the attempted murder against the vice president is being investigated.
For the researchers, the slogans and violent demonstrations carried out by the Federal Revolution since May of this year could have worked as a “breeding ground, like the hate speech that triggered” the assassination attempt on the vice president, as Télam learned from judicial sources. .
The prosecutor’s office investigating the four detainees from the Federal Revolution group considered that a “criminal scheme” was set up to “impose” ideas and “combat those of others by force and fear” and that this sowed in society the escalation of ” violence and hatred” whose “most important act” turned out to be the attempted murder of the vice president.
