By Deutsche Welle
16 Oct 2024, 09:53 AM EDT
The former first lady, who has lived in Spain since last year, should have handed over all the contents of her mobile phone but only sent certified transcripts of some messages from her mobile phone to prosecutor Ramiro González with information related to the complaint.
The diary The Nation explained that prosecutor Ramiro González promoted a cooperation agreement with the Spanish justice system for the former first lady to hand over, last week, the data contained on her phone.
The Nationanother Argentine newspaper, assures that from the environment of former president Alberto Fernández (2015-2023) The weight of these conversations as evidence in the case has been relativized. The conversations include some dialogues between the couple that are related to the alleged violence that Yáñez experienced with Fernández, father of her son Francisco.
“You slapped me and left my face boiling”
“You made me deny something to a judge and you ask me to help you“says the former first lady. “You make it like a fight but I was going to the guest house because you slapped me and you left my face boiling“He added in one of the messages provided, according to Clarion.
“I also know what you are saying about me from behind,” Fabiola reproached Alberto Fernández, at another time. Later, she would publicly imply that the former president was going to talk about his alleged alcohol addiction problems as an excuse to defend himself in the case, the newspaper quotes.
Yáñez, 43, denounced the former president, 65, after the Argentine Justicein an investigation into alleged influence peddling of the former head of state, found conversations and images on the president’s secretary’s cell phone that could indicate the commission of the crime of “minor injuries in the context of gender violence” against the former partner of the Peronist politician. .
After the complaint, the prosecutor charged Fernández with serious injuries doubly aggravated due to the relationship and for occurring in a context of gender violence and coercive threats to the detriment of Yáñez.
“An asymmetric and unequal power relationship”
In his opinion, González stated that Yáñez “suffered a relationship characterized by harassment, psychological harassment and physical attacks in a context of gender and domestic violence”, based “on an asymmetric and unequal relationship of power that has developed over time, which was increased exponentially by the election of Fernández as president”, in 2019, and “the exercise of office”, until last December.
Federal judge Julián Ercolini prohibited Fernández from leaving Argentina and ordered him not to approach or contact his ex-partner in any way.
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