Ana Perciavalle
08/14/2020 - 10:41
- Clarín.com
- Society
Sorry but no. With a video that was supposed to be an apology but which cannot but be seen as an act of provocation , the singer Gustavo Cordera responded to Justice. The video, requested to be broadcast on social networks and the media, waspart of the "probation" that he had to comply with to end the case in which he was accused of "incitement to violence" against women.
"I am one of those who have become aware of the need to change the way of saying to clearly mark the way of thinking," says the singer without altering a constant and monotonous tone, or looking up at the camera for a second in everything that The setting lasts for more than two and a half minutes.
“Although it is clear from the video viewing that the defendant formally complies with the reading of the document, the truth is that the gesture - keeping your gaze down and fixed on the document during practically the entire video -, the tone and the cadence of The voice that accompanies it seems to show a certain disagreement or at least discomfort with the condition imposed by this Court , which raises concern as to whether the purpose has been achieved ”, the ruling issued by the Court when receiving the recorded material reads verbatim .
Gustavo Cordera read an apology document but Justice rejected them. .
The case in question dates back to August 2016 , when interviewed by students in a class at a journalism school, the singer said: "There are women who need, because they are hysterical, to be raped, because psychologically they need it and because they are guilty and they don't want to have sex freely. They want to play that. I don't like to play that, but there are people who do. We human beings are very complex. "
In that same interview, he considered "an aberration" that the law does not allow having sex with adolescents who "want" to have relationships with an adult. "If I have something good to give you, I can deflower you like no one in the world," he said.
When the statements were released to the press, Chamber I of the Federal Chamber confirmed Cordera's prosecution for the crime of incitement to violence, following a complaint from INADI.
In April 2019, the trial against him was suspended. The Oral Court in Correctional 7 of the City of Buenos Aires decided to grant him the suspension of the trial by accepting his proposal to carry out a probation , which would consist of two free shows (postponed due to the pandemic), attend a gender workshop and hold a video for broadcast on social networks and media.
As a student, Cordera attended a "Conversations Workshop on Gender and Culture" which is part of the "Probation Workshops within the framework of Restorative Justice" program, dictated by the City's Secretary of Justice and Human Rights. Before he had proposed to be him, the teacher of the course in question. The Court did not accept it. The words of that moment from his lawyer Fernando Burlando were: "This issue matured ... you can talk about gender violence and your life today."
“When we say: 'They do what they do', we mean this. Gustavo Cordera does not seem to have repented and it is clear that he feels an accomplice network that deep down tells us that he is apologizing, that we are not annoying. When we denounce, we bother, ”said Sara Barni , head of Red Viva, an association that protects victims of violence and sexual abuse, plaintiff in the Cordera case.
"The document you are reading was" agreed "with the Public Prosecutor's Office. Do you understand why we report? Those who called us and call us punitivists, who told us that they were not accompanying us because we had chosen the wrong legal tool, could they explain to us what tool we are going to use in the meantime. Because the only tool we have is to go and file a complaint and when we report, they laugh in our faces, ”claimed Barni.
Regarding the resolution of this story, Cordera must comply with each of the items that the Court gave him. If you do not respect them or they are considered non-compliant, the trial automatically continues .
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