The rapporteur of the Superior Court of Justice of Tierra del Fuego Marcelo Guzmán was prosecuted today by the ordinary justice of the city of Ushuaia, which considered him “prima facie” responsible for a brutal attack perpetrated against his wife, Carla Kirstein, who weeks ago made the case public by recording a video with her body and face disfigured by blows.
The investigating judge 1 of the Fuegian capital, Javier De Gamas Soler, issued this afternoon the prosecution de Guzmán for the crimes of “serious injuries aggravated by having been committed against her partner in the context of a situation of gender violence” (in fact) and “minor injuries” (in other two) both in “real contest”, supports the ruling to which Télam agreed.
In addition, the judge ordered to lock a embargo against the high judicial officiall up to cover the sum of “one million pesos”.
Although the magistrate did not order the arrest of the accused, kept him several rules of conductsuch as “set address” and “communicate any changes to the authorities”, “appear at all summons”, do not approach a distance less than 100 meters from the victim and do not maintain any communication with her”.
He also ordered her to “appear daily at the headquarters of the Gender and Family Police Station” and not to wander outside her home between midnight and seven in the morning.
On the other hand, Guzman you will not be able to leave the province without authorizationunder threat of “ordering his immediate arrest.”
Judge De Gamas Soler sent a copy of the resolution to the Family and Minority Court 2, where he processed another parallel file, and to the Superior Court of Justice “for your information and for the pertinent administrative purposes”, taking into account that That body has already removed the official from the position and is processing an administrative summary.
Meanwhile, the criminal justice notified the Secretary of Women of the Municipality of Ushuaia of the processing so that the investigations continue. support tasks for the victim, who was authorized a few hours ago to return to Chaco, his native province, in the company of his two daughters.
Guzman’s statement
Guzmán had been questioned on Wednesday and had denied any responsibility in the events under investigation.
Testifying virtually before the judge, he maintained that he never hit his partner and slipped that injuries suffered by the woman on her face and much of her body could have been caused by a fall from a ladder covered with ice in the center of Ushuaia.
In turn, he pointed out that shoulder injury denounced by Carla as a second episode of aggression, could respond to the blow that tipped a former partner of his years ago.
For this last fact, the prosecutor Nicolás Arias added the crime of serious injuries to the accusation.
Kirstein managed to make her case visible when two weeks ago she uploaded a video to social networks in which she recounted how she had been beaten by the official with the category of judge.
The woman, married to Guzman for 12 yearsworks as a pilates teacher and admitted that she recorded the video with her testimony as “life insurance”.
The case generated a great commotion in Tierra del Fuego and had strong repercussions in the rest of the country.
