Fabian Debesa
02/27/2020 - 9:36
- Clarín.com
- Society
The director of the Provincial Agency for the Prevention of Buenos Aires Sports Violence (Aprevide), Juan Manuel Lugones, denounced for abuse against a police officer, was prosecuted by the Criminal Justice of La Plata and was summoned to an investigative statement for Friday 28 of this month.
According to judicial sources, prosecutor Cecilia Corfield believes that there is sufficient evidence to impute the official of the provincial Ministry of Security for the crimes of "abuse of authority, simple sexual abuse and threats." The victims are two officers of Buenos Aires who served as private secretariats in the office of that agency.
Lugones is in charge of the state agency in charge of supervising controls and prevention in sports shows. He was appointed in 2016 by the management of María Eugenia Vidal and ratified in his position by the current minister, Sergio Berni.
When Clarín revealed, on February 3, that there was a case against the head of the Aprevide, in Berni's office they explained that they would take provisions to "support the complainant and preserve their integrity." And they also said that they would let "act to Justice before taking a certain one on the future of the official."
Then, Lugones told Clarín : "I know this agent and her husband and what she reported never happened , I don't know her motivations, but I understand that someone is responding and that person did not want me to continue leading the agency."
He also insisted that it is all a lie. "I admire the courage of those who make such presentations, but this is a fallacy."
According to the evidence that Corfield gathered, there are at least 15 witnesses (co-workers of the victim) who confirm the facts raised by the affected police. The prosecutor said Lugones exercised "psychological violence" against one of his former employees. Among other things I would have said several times: "You know that you are not here because you are beautiful." In addition, in the investigation he could verify that "in innumerable occasions he told the staff that the police women were all" whores and promiscuous, humiliating and disgracing women for their condition as such, "the prosecutor wrote.
With the transcription of text audios sent by cell phone and with screenshots of conversations by communication applications, Corfield found alleged threats and insinuations from Lugones to another subordinate. He verified that the head of the area invited her to dinner several times. And because of its refusal "the complainant received in response isolation, different treatment and even economic violence because she sent her to perform tasks that had a lower remuneration than the rest of the staff."
She is the same officer who reported a case of sexual abuse. It happened in mid-2019 when a contingent from Aprevide was traveling to Mar del Plata for a football match. The patrol stopped at a place on the road and Lugones asked to get into the trucks. When the officer was on that task, the official put his hands on the tail of the police. "What are you doing," the woman shouted. "These are touches that determine abuse," the prosecutor wrote in the indictment.
In Courts they explained to Clarín that Lugones would not be arrested. “He was always right. He did not try to hinder the investigation. It even appeared spontaneously when the complaint was known, ”they clarified. The crimes charged to the current head of Aprevide are excarcerable and this would allow him to continue the process in freedom, judicial sources said.