Former senator Juan Carlos Galaverna recalled the details of the legal battle waged against the former director of the ABC Color newspaper, Aldo Zuccolillo. The former parliamentarian said that it was a planned action on his part, given the constant insults perpetrated by said media outlet against him.
In the last few hours, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) He spoke at length about the legal conflict that Aldo Zuccolillo and Juan Carlos Galaverna had in 2005, where the State sentenced the former director of ABC Color to pay GG 754,002,000 to the then parliamentarian.
About, The IACHR maintains that “the rights to freedom of thought and expression” were violated when issuing said rulingwhich is why he considers that the sentence should be revoked as a “tribute” to the former director of ABC.
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“I did not sue ABC for any of its criticisms, for any of its criticisms, for any of its derogatory covers against any human being, for any of its articles presenting me as an undesirable. I put up with all of that, because I knew that the judges would not dare to condemn Zuccolillo,” said former senator Galaverna in conversation with Radio 1000, adding that at that time, the former media director had a “tremendous influence” in the Judiciary, through its journalist Carlos Benítez.
He said that the case that made him act was when he was at ABC They published an alleged loan that had been disbursed from the National Development Bank, but they attributed to him an identity card that did not belong to him, but to a brother of Adolfo and Mario Ferreiro.
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“My intention was to hit him, I fully accept that. I was fishing for the opportunity to hit that son of a bitch. The opportunity came when he presented me in two articles as a swindler, a defaulter on a National Development Bank account,” Calé recalled.
He also said that after several years of legal litigation, he obtained a favorable ruling that included a payment order. “I said that I was not going to use a single cent of Zuccolillo’s money for fear of being in trouble. I distributed to charitable institutions everything that corresponded to me,” he added.
