"I feel defenseless with this Judicial Power"

Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recalled this Friday that they fired “a pistol 15 centimeters” from her head on September 1, and considered that the four people arrested for the assassination attempt “are not masterminds” of that act by At the same time, he pointed out that he feels in “this state of helplessness with this Judicial Power”, when exposing in the plea of ​​his defense in the case of ‘Viality’.

On the third day of his defense argument, Fernández de Kirchner spoke for an hour and twenty minutes from his office in the Senate of the Nation via Zoom, and there he remarked that the adviser to an opposition senator (Ignacio Torres, of Together for the Cambio de Chubut), who sits a few meters from her, “is a defender” of the person who “wanted to kill her” at the door of her home in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Recoleta on September 1.

For this reason, the Vice President stated: “I feel defenseless with this Judiciary.”

“The people who are detained, among whom I consider the head of the small gang, their defense attorneys were advisers to a senator of the Nation, someone who sits 20 meters from me. His adviser defends whoever wanted to kill me”

This is how he referred during his argument, which lasted more than an hour, to the judicial investigation of the assassination attempt, for which he highlighted the relationship that exists between defense lawyers for those detained by the assassination attempt against the Vice President and the senator from Chubut.

is that the lawyer Gastón Marano, defender of Gabriel Nicolás Carrizo, one of the four detainees in the case, was an advisor to Torres in the Bicameral Congressional Intelligence Commission.

After it transpired that the lawyer was going to be in charge of Carrizo’s defense, Torres decided to remove him from his position in the Bicameral.

“The people who are detained, among whom I consider the head of the small gang, their defense attorneys were advisers to a senator of the Nation, someone who sits 20 meters from me. His adviser defends whoever wanted to kill me, “he stressed.

Along the same lines, he added: “Until September 1, I believed that this was to stigmatize me, proscribe me, denigrate me, defame me, slander me, but from that day on I realized that there may be something else behind all this.”

“It seems that from the judicial sphere social license is given so that anyone can think and do anything”

The Vice President noted that “It seems that from the judicial sphere social license is given so that anyone can think and do anything”.

“I cannot forget that this year, in this same office was destroyed literally for more than 40 minutes by stones. No security force of the Argentine Republic, neither local nor national, prevented my office from being destroyed”, he stressed.

In her account of the events that occurred before the attempted assassination, the Vice President remarked that “a few days prior to the day of remembrance, on March 24, posters appeared throughout the city with a murderous poster and my face“.

There he questioned the porteño investigating judge Manuel de Campos, about whom he said that “he had the case for five months and systematically refused the requests of the prosecutor Leonel Gómez Barbella, who requested the investigation of the people he had identified who could be responsible for ordering and pasting the posters.” “Now he declared himself incompetent as soon as I appeared as a plaintiff,” he added.

Likewise, the former head of state highlighted the debate on the role of the media by citing that “When the prosecutor (Diego) Luciani finished his argument so histrionically, that day there was a split screen at the door of my house. That was creating a climate”he remarked.

“The judges who judge me, those who are in Cassation and one of the members of this court, are friends -of former president Mauricio Macri- and they play soccer in the Los Abrojos fifth”

During a section of his argument, Fernández Kirchner stated: “As we are going, we are going badly. Argentina does not come out like that, with this Judicial Power, no, not at all.”

“And that put an end to this impunity. What impunity? Me, impunity? I have five causes of illicit association. If you want impunity, look the other way. The truth is, I feel defenseless.. Very uneasy,” she observed.

On the other hand, the Vice President insisted with the feeling of “helplessness” by pointing out: “The judges who judge me, those who are in Cassation and one of the members of this court, are friends -of former president Mauricio Macri- and they play football in the Los Abrojos fifth“.

“Others played paddle tennis in the Olivos estate or regularly visited the Casa Rosada,” he stressed.

The judicial officials who played football in the fifth of the highest reference of the PRO, as denounced by the Vice President, are the federal prosecutor Diego Luciani and the judge Rodrigo Gimenez Uriburumember of the Federal Oral Court 2 that is carrying out this trial.

In August, the defense of the Vice President, led by lawyer Carlos Beraldi, challenged both, but the other two judges of TOF 2, Jorge Gorini and Andrés Basso, decided that the challenge be processed by “incident”, that is to say Parallel to the continuity of the debate, for which Luciani resumed a new day of his accusatory plea with his colleague Diego Mola.

At the beginning of her speech, Cristina Kirchner also mentioned feel defenseless because she could not have defended herself and speak now in this trial “if she had not been a lawyer”.

“I live in a permanent state of siege because my constitutional guarantees have been suspended, apparently, since December 10, 2015,” he emphasized.