The Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Martín Soriamaintained this Friday that the federal judge Maria Eugenia Capuchetti “He spent his time entering the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI)” of the Government of Mauricio Macri and recalled that he opportunely denounced that the magistrate “has serious ties” with the former officials of that agency, Gustavo Arribas and Silvia Majdalani.
“Judge Capuchetti spent her time entering the AFI, she has serious links with (Gustavo) Arribas and (Silvia) Majdalani and other leaders of the PRO,” Soria said this Friday morning in statements to the FM Futurock online radio, in the that he considered “unacceptable Commodore PRO’s cover-up of the attack on Cristina Kirchner.”
“In a presentation before the Judicial Council, held in August 2020, together with several legislators, we exposed the links of the judge with Arribas and Majdalani, who spent her time entering the headquarters of the AFI. That was recorded and we denounced it, “she recalled.
“The lawyers requested 43 pieces of evidence, Judge Capuchetti denied 35 and only gave up eight of those pieces of evidence; and while she denies them, she does not propose any line of investigation, she only pays for the editorials of Clarín and the Nation that it would be about wolves. lonely”
Along these lines, he insisted that “it is evident that there is a link between this judge and the leaders of the PRO who are trying to cover up the attack on the Vice President” when referring to the “unacceptable inaction” of the magistrate in the case.
This Thursday the Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced that she will recuse the judge who instructs in the investigation that is being carried out for the assassination attempt suffered on September 1, while the complaint of the former president demanded that the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires order the seizure of the cell phones of two assistants to the national deputy of the PRO Gerardo Milman.
In addition, the legal representatives of the Vice President insisted on their proposal to investigate “conclusively” the clue that arose as a result of her alleged statements by Milman about the attack delivered at the Casablanca confectionery.
In his statements this Friday, Soria added that despite the fact that “the lawyers requested 43 pieces of evidence, Judge Capuchetti denied 35 and only gave up eight of those pieces of evidence; and while he denies them, he does not propose any line of investigation, he only pays the editorials of Clarín and La Nación that they would be lone wolves”.
Soria affirmed that, on the other hand, “it is a guarantee that any victim has, that of having a judge to instruct his case and investigate the crime he suffered”; and argued that “the Penal Code classifies a crime that punishes and sanctions a judge who maliciously delays the administration of justice.”
He also said that when they testified, “the advisers of (the PRO national deputy, Gerardo) Milman lied to the judge’s face, the judge and the prosecutor, so it is evident that they are trying to cover up the attack against the Vice President”.
“The selectivity, the partisanship of sectors of the Judiciary such as the Court and some judges of Comodoro Pro have to do with the fact that they have had their shirt on for a long time,” said the minister.
Criticism of the Court’s ruling on the Judicial Council
On the other hand, Soria referred to the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice known this week that he revoked the parliamentary decree that divided the ruling bloc for the appointment of a representative before the Judicial Council.
“It constitutes an enslavement to the functioning of roles within democracy and is inapplicable,” said the minister, adding: “Only legislators can decide their regulations and the blocs they belong to.”
In as much, considered that the pronouncement of the maximum court constitutes an “advance on the Congress getting into the precincts of the senate to decide the conformation of each legislative block”.
“That’s why I said and I repeat that the Court works as a guarantor of the impunity of macrismo and as a spearhead of the persecution of Peronism“, said the minister, for whom “today in Argentina we have an institutional political blockade” in the same way as “in Spain, where for three years they have also blocked the Council of the Magistracy”.
He also exemplified: “Brazil where when Lula won, the media began to say that he will not be able to govern because he has the Senate and the House of Congress against him” and added: “The problem is that in the game of democracy majorities are required and those majorities, the opposition, the media and some sectors of the justice system are not willing to give it”.
On the other hand, when asked about the figure of the Vice President regarding next year’s electionsSoria analyzed that “when they persecute and harass” the official “they are wrong because they continue to raise her up as what she is, a fundamental political figure for the PJ and for Argentina.”
