“The dismissal of Anita is confirmed and the case is terminated,” explained Raquel Hermida, the actress’s lawyer.
The ruling came from the Oral Criminal and Correctional Court 9 of the City of Buenos Aires, which declared the criminal action for insults that Darthés filed against Co. terminated due to procedural inactivity.
On October 4, 2019, the TOC had dismissed the actress, but Fernando Burlando, the actor’s lawyer, appealed the measure, which is now final.
«I am very happy for this expected result. Congratulations on the reaffirmation of my dismissal. Among other things, thanks to the tireless work of my lawyer Raquel Hermida, who went forward through thick and thin against a whole patriarchal system that must change at once accompanying social change, “Anita Co. told Télam.
In February 2018, the artist told on social networks and on television programs that she had been sexually harassed by Darthés during the recordings of the program ‘Gasoleros’ in 2009.
In March, after denying the accusation on various television programs, Darthés filed a legal complaint against Co.
To issue the ruling that ended the case, the TOC 9 assessed that the parties were first summoned to a hearing for February 2019, to which Darthés did not attend because he was abroad and could not travel for health reasons.
On that date, the actor was already living in Brazil after the judicial complaint made by actress Thelma Fardin for having raped her in 2009 in Nicaragua while they were filming a children’s strip, when she was 16 years old and he was 45.
Darthés, whose real name is Juan Rafael Pacífico Dabul, was born in Brazil and took refuge there after the complaint, since he has dual Argentine and Brazilian nationality.
In the case against Co, the Court recalled that there was a hearing by videoconference system to which Darthés did not appear either, and a year later, in March 2020, “for the purpose of interrupting the prescription of the criminal action”, the The complaint requested that the case be brought to trial.
The TOC 9 stated that the last procedural activity that the Criminal Code specifically establishes to interrupt the prescription was registered with the promotion of the complaint on March 19, 2018, and that since then the calculation of the maximum period of two years has been resumed. for the subsistence of the stock.
The chambermaid Luis Salas maintained that the statute of limitations was not interrupted by the request for elevation to trial made two years after the initiation of the complaint, because in it a “generic” description of the conduct attributed to the accused was made, “without a clear relationship, precise and detailed facts ”.
Once the final dismissal was known, Hermida confirmed that her client “did not receive money, nor did he apologize as the other party wanted. Ultimately, we won.
She also anticipated that for Co “it is a finished issue, it was an unpleasant process for her, where the lawyers of the other party revictimized her, so this is where we come.
Hermida pointed out that Anita Co “will be a witness” in the case that began in Brazil against Darthés for Fardín’s complaint.
In addition to Fardín y Co, the actresses Calu Rivero and Natalia Juncos also made public situations of sexual harassment by Darthés, and there was at least one other complaint from a woman whose name did not transcend.
Regarding the dismissal, Co asked that this ruling “not only feel jurisprudence, but also encourage many women to continue speaking with the guarantee of truth and freedom. I hug you all, “concluded the actress.
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