Nicolas Wiñazki
09/19/2020 - 22:55
Clarín.com
Politics
Former President
Mauricio Macri is furious
.
This is how those who spoke to him in the last days describe his state of mind.
Always in private talks with different interlocutors, he repeats that he has no doubts that the complaint from the Justice that seeks to determine whether he broke the quarantine that he should have served in confinement after returning from a trip to Europe, on September 3, is one more of several action, hitherto unknown, organized
according to him by Vice President Cristina Fernández to harm him
.
Last Thursday, the Justice raided "Los Abrojos", owned for decades by the Macri family, in search of footage that would help to elucidate in a file, instructed by a San Martín prosecutor, if the former president committed an infraction.
The case escalated
.
The opposition denounced that these measures were an institutional outrage.
Vice President Fernández
accused Macri of having mounted a “fake raid”, that is, “trucho”
, to politically capitalize on a fact that she denounced as false: she did so based on a statement from the Buenos Aires PJ where she separated from the Peronist leadership of have prompted the complaint against the former president.
The journalist Rodrigo Alegre, from TN, later released an official document where it was established that he was the Secretary of Security of the "Malvinas Argentinas" party, where the fifth "Los Abrojos" is located, who effectively initiated the case in court.
That happened on September 11 last.
On September 10, Macri had met in his fifth with
three mayors
of his party.
The meeting was broadcast on the networks by one of the protagonists themselves, the mayor of Pinamar, Martín Yeza.
The former president denies having committed any infraction and complains because he considers the raid unacceptable, to which he adds other facts that he lists as part of a kind of K plot against him.
Something like he was living as if "Los Caltrops" were under "siege."
For example: Macri let it be known that
it is not the first time that the Malvinas Argentinas municipality has controlled him
in a perhaps excessive way to know whether or not he would comply with a quarantine after returning from abroad.
He also adds other "discussions" he had with the Casa Rosada related to his own safety.
Before confinement is imposed by the Covid, the Government
tried to reduce the personal custody
that corresponds to him as a former president, and even from his surroundings they assure that his wife, former first lady Juliana Awada, was left unprotected for a long time in the that those who were supposed to take care of her left for a presidential office.
Of course, Macri is also sure that the front of all works in a
reserved manner in court to complicate in
records
more complex than the "quarantine affaire" as if studying possible mismanagement in the management of the Correo Argentino, a business that his family exploded commercially thanks to a state concession.
Added to that are the possible evidence of an expert opinion on the phone of his private secretary, Darío Nieto, which would show that his phone was tampered with after being kidnapped by the Justice in a case of alleged illegal espionage: the analyzes would show that they suddenly appeared in that device messages and data that would compromise its owner, although it would be proven that they were included when the cell phone was in possession of the Judicial Power.
A turnaround in that file could then be confirmed.
Always according to the version that Macri told various interlocutors, already on a previous trip he made to Paraguay on Monday, July 14.
When she landed at the San Fernando airport, she went to “Los Abrojos” to comply with the quarantine that was required at that time of all citizens returning from abroad to avoid possible Covid-19 infections.
Since that day, and for several more, a truck from "Malvinas Argentinas" would have stationed in front of the entrance to the farm "Los Abrojos" to check if the former president respected the confinement.
The municipality of Malvinas Argentinas, under the command of Leandro Nardini, seems to be very effective regarding the sanitary zeal in this regard.
During the course of his quarantine, Macri obtained a permit to move from "Los Abrojos" to his home in the town of Acassuso without breaking with medical care, according to those who treat him daily.
From that moment and for several more days, a doctor identified as a Malvinas Argentinas health representative called the former president and his wife, Awada, daily to find out if Macri's isolation was strict.
The former president,
undoubted sources
told
Clarín
, explained several times to the specialist that doctors from the municipality of San Isidro were already reviewing him and controlling his quarantine.
The doctor was insistent.
That is why Macri was not completely surprised by the "Malvinas Argentinas" complaint about his new quarantine after his return from Europe.
But he was
furious
when he learned that the judicial complaint was progressing to a raid ordered by the prosecutor Jorge Sica, who asked Judge Juan Manuel Culotta for the footage from the cameras of "Los Abrojos" since September 3, when the former president returned to the country, until the 10th of that same month, when he met with the communal leaders of his party.
The magistrate did not comply with the prosecutor's request regarding the recording dates of the cameras.
Macri let it transpire through various sources that he can demonstrate to the Justice that since he returned from Europe he performed
two swabs
to find out if he had been infected with Covid.
One was the same Thursday, September 3, as soon as he returned to "Los Abrojos" from the Ezeiza airport.
And the other would have been done after seven days.
Macri's defense could present that evidence.
Why did the prosecutor Sica want the recordings of "Los Abrojos" from a week ago of the supposed "clandestine" meeting that the former president had with the PRO mayors?
His advisers believe, because it is really a factual fact, that this way the information on who and when they visited Macri in his villa, away from possible indiscreet people, could be obtained.
To this they add that in another judicial case that is being investigated by the federal Justice, the
intersection of 1,388 calls
that were made from the telephone that he used while being President of the Nation is
still advancing
.
That measure tried to be stopped by his lawyers several times.
Macri now revealed other unknown facts that undermined his
distrust
with the
Casa Rosada
.
Between January and March last, he received several
alerts
from the Government regarding his custody as a former president.
According to Macri's environment, the number of agents who take care of him and his family are moderate.
He was first exalted by an unexpected event: his wife
Awada left a restaurant
and suddenly found that the truck in their custody was no longer there.
They would have left her unprotected then.
Macri himself would have called the police officers who are guarding him (workers who follow orders from superiors) to return immediately to look for and guard Awada, which happened.
The version of Macri's environment is that from the Quinta de Olivos they insisted on the Federal Police to take away one or both of the armored vans assigned to their police care.
Even Macri lets an anecdote transcend: one night, when he learned that the Government repeated that it had to return those vehicles to the State, he asked his custodians for the keys to the trucks, and he went to sleep with them so that they could not take him away from the Government. the mobility of your bodyguards.
The former Minister of Security,
Patricia Bullrich
, had to call her successor in office,
Sabina Frederic
, to ask that these disagreements stop altering the order of Macri's custody.
The official version on the subject is that the former president had more vehicles than the current President herself and therefore a balance was sought on those mobiles specially equipped for extreme care of attackers.
The
siege
of "Los Abrojos", for Macri, began several months ago.
And he is sure that it will
continue
for several more.