Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner affirmed this Sunday that “the procedural guarantees of not being tried twice for the same act do not apply if you are a Peronist”, expanding on her statements on the jurisprudential background of the case against former president Fernando de la Rúa by the repression of December 19 and 20, 2001.
“What was said on Friday in our plea: the procedural guarantees of not being tried twice for the same act, and all the others, do not apply if you are a Peronist,” the vice president reiterated in a publication that she shared through her Twitter account. , where he warned that “for Peronism” there is “Criminal Law of author”.
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Referring to the accusation against De la Rúa for the murders of demonstrators in the protests of December 19 and 20, 2001, he maintained that “for the rest, even if they are crimes against life that occurred a few meters from the Casa Rosada, in broad daylight of the day and broadcast live on all television channels, liberal criminal law, with all the guarantees and principles of due process”.
“Chamber 1 of Cassation, made up of Daniel Petrone and Diego Barroetaveña, is the one that has two cases of Illicit Association, (Memorandum and Hotesur-Los Sauces), which together with that of Vialidad, which also qualified as illicit association, are part Of the five cases that are being carried out against me separately and with the same criminal type, that is… five times tried for the same act,” he stated.
In addition, he stated that not only was De la Rúa dismissed by the late judge Claudio Bonadio “in the accusation of manslaughter,” but that the chief of staff of that administration, Chrystian Colombo, and the Minister of the Interior, Ramón Mestre, “were not even charged. , despite the fact that article 102 of the National Constitution establishes the joint responsibility of the ministers on the decrees they sign”.
