After the former first lady of Argentina Fabiola Yañez will file a complaint against the former president Alberto Fernandez for gender violence, two photos were released tonight that are part of the evidence in the accusation against the former president. In the images, which were published by Infobae and they would have been leaked from Maria Cantero’s phone, Yañez is seen with a black eye and a bruise on the inside of her right arm, near the armpit.
Yañez sent the photos to the former president reproaching him for his violent attitude. Along with the shocking images that were taken former first ladya WhatsApp conversation was also spread with Fernández in which she told him: “It doesn’t work like this, you hit me all the time. It’s unusual. I can’t let you do this to me when I didn’t do anything to you. And all I’m trying to do with my mind focused is defend you and you physically hit me. There’s no explanation.”
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The screenshots of the conversation also show the former head of state’s response: “But stop arguing. In the end we ended up fighting over everyone else. Please. Come.”
The complaint for gender violence was presented to the judge on Tuesday Julian Ercolini for alleged acts of physical and psychological violence which remain in place to this day. After that first presentation, the magistrate immediately ordered restrictive measures against the former president that include, among others, the prohibition to leave the country and reinforce the custody of the complainant. Also He was prevented from approaching within 500 metres of his ex-partner’s home and he was ordered to stop intimidating Yanez.
For his part, Alberto Fernández denied the accusations against him. In dialogue with THE NATION He said that “it’s all fake” and? will prove it “before Justice””. And through a statement released on his social networks he expressed himself in the same sense and reaffirmed that he will provide in court “the evidence and testimonies that will show what really happened.” He also said that He does not plan to make public statements so as not to expose his family, including “Fabiola herself”. Following the complaint, Fernández He became the first Argentine president to be accused of gender violence.
This Tuesday was the second hearing of Yanez with the judge, who had contacted her last June after finding in the chats of Fernández’s former private secretary, Maria Canteromessages that alluded to acts of physical violence that she attributed to the former president, within the framework of the investigation of the Nación Seguros case.
Argentina’s then-President Alberto Fernandez and First Lady Fabiola Yanez walk the red carpet ahead of the opening ceremony of the 9th Summit of the Americas, on June 8, 2022. (Photo by Chandan KHANNA / AFP)
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As he learned THE NATIONthe story to Cantero included photos, among which are those that were leaked on Thursday. Upon finding those messages, the judge contacted the former first lady through the lawyer Juan Pablo Fioribello -who had represented her in other cases- and told her that he wanted to talk to her, she said.
Fioribello was denounced this Thursday for violation of professional secrecy and incompatibility of advice. Fioribello’s replacement in the case and who will face the judicial process against Fernández will be the lawyer Mariana Gallego. However, sources close to the lawyer told LA NACION that they will not comment on the case until Gallego speaks in detail with Yañez.
Federal prosecutor Carlos Rívolo, who is in charge of the investigation, contacted the former first lady to “inform her of the process, the powers granted to her by law and the details that will be requested of her in the future.”
The former first lady is in Madrid, Spain, with her son, Francisco, after her separation from Fernández. The former president returned to stay in the Puerto Madero neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires in an apartment lent to him by his friend “Pepe” Albistur.
After the photos were made public, politicians from the ruling party and the opposition condemned the acts of physical violence. On behalf of the government, presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni pointed at Fernández in X: “Gentlemen: never again. The end.”
