The Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation of Argentina confirmed on Monday the prosecution by former president Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) in the case of Gender violence against his ex -partner Fabiola Yañez.
Justice also accepted the request made by the ex -president for separated the judge who carried the case, Julián Ercoliniin order to “move away any fear of partiality that the parties could house” and ordered that a new magistrate be designated.
The Criminal Court – integrated by Judges Ángela Ledesma, Alejandro Slokar and Guillermo Yacobucci- unanimously decided to reject the arguments of the defendant’s defense against the first judicial decision to process Fernández, accused of minor and aggravated injuries for gender violence and coercive threats, In real contest.
Federal prosecutor Ramiro González requested on August 14 that Fernández was tried in an oral and public trial.
The former president, in addition, had requested that both Judge Ercoloni and Prosecutor Ramiro González, who on August 14 requested oral trial, were separated by arguing incompetence and lack of objectivity of both.
Yañez43 years, denounced in 2024 the former president, 65, After the Argentine Justice, in an investigation to Fernández of course influence peddling, will find on his secretary’s phone conversations and images that could indicate “minor injuries in context of gender violence” against the former lady.
After an extensive investigation, in which Declaration was taken to Yáñez and more than a dozen witnesses, Ercolini accused Fernández on February 17 as criminally responsible for “the crimes of minor injuries, aggravated for having committed in a context of gender violence and against his partner, repeated two times.”
Among the tests analyzed, provided by both Fernández and Yáñez, medical records, medical documents, telephone calls and text messages are included, as well as the declaration of the complainant and an extensive list of witnesses.
Of being found guilty of these crimes, the Argentine ex -president could face a penalty of up to fifteen years in prison.