Mariana Iglesias
10/24/2020 4:24 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/24/2020 4:24 PM
"I still can't believe it", "I still can't believe it" ... Angie Bellani repeats the phrase at the end of every violent situation that counts.
She is a journalist, she is 42 years old and the last 12 she was in a relationship with
Dante Liporace, who was the chef of the Casa Rosada
during the presidency of Mauricio Macri.
Bellani lives with the six-year-old son they had together.
It has an anti-panic button and a perimeter order so that he does not approach
after several complaints he made against Liporace for violence.
He is afraid that he will appear on the street, that he will break the door of his apartment again.
"I live in fear," says Angie
.
It is that Liporace has already violated the communication and contact restriction.
Bellani and Liporace met in 2008, he had just returned from Spain and she was working as a journalist.
They became a couple and became business partners
: she began to do press for him, to position him as a chef in Argentina.
At the time Liporace was already in Moreno, a place of molecular cooking, and then in front of Tarquino.
Angie and Liporace when they were still in a relationship
What Liporace never did was pay Bellani a salary.
"The truth is that it did not occur to me to ask for a salary,
for me it was a life plan
, a family plan, we lived together, we had a child," she says.
The mistreatment, the harassment, began with coexistence.
One day he grabbed her by the neck and hanged her, another day he pushed her against a closet.
"It was a total manipulation. He controlled the clothes I wore, he watched my cell phone, he called me thirty times a day."
The pregnancy was in 2013. "It was very suffered, he was very absent, and I was very connected with my baby."
But
Angie saw a photo of Liporace with another woman
, and questioned it.
"I thought he was going to apologize or at least give an explanation, but instead
he treated me crazy and threw me to the floor
. I was six months old, luckily nothing happened to the baby."
Angie kicked him out of the house and she moved in for a few days with the public relation Sofia Neiman, who had offered to take care of her.
Liporace with Macri, when he was his chef at Casa Rosada
After that episode, Liporace "calmed down a bit, but he started traveling a lot, and also
hitting things, doors, walls, tables, chairs, and he was screaming
."
Time passed, and when the baby was two years old, he moved, he went to another apartment.
"He would come back when he wanted, without warning, nor would he say hello, a total mistreatment, but at times he changed, and so time went by.
At the beginning of the quarantine, Angie received an audio from Liporace by mistake, because it was addressed to another person, and it said how she was going to do to continue having sex with the other woman.
"He was one
of those who did not comply with the quarantine.
His restaurant (Mercado de Liniers, in Palermo) was closed for a while but he immediately opened it when he still couldn't," says Angie.
Liporace with friends at their Mercado de Liniers restaurant
When questioned by the audio she had heard, Liporace acted again attacking her and telling her that she was crazy.
"Then I took the key from her and told her to go away and not go home again," she says, "but one day she came back and
almost broke the door, she entered as prepo yelling at
me that I was sure I was with 'a male'. I took it out as best I could. and I flew away to file a complaint. "
It was April.
"I reported that fact, but then I came back and
reported all the previous violence
, all his beatings, his mistreatment," says Angie.
In August, she denounced him again, this time, because
he had emptied the security box with their savings
.
In September, Liporace threatened her: "He told me that he had bribed someone from security in my building and that he knew all the time who entered and left my apartment, and that he also had their document numbers. He
told me 'I'm going to blow you up, I have many contacts, '
so I took a taxi to the OVD (
Office of Domestic Violence
). They took great care of me, I was there from eleven at night until five in the morning. "
DANTE LIPORACE
From then on Angie
has the panic button and a perimeter order
so that he does not approach or attempt any type of communication with her.
But after five days
he broke this order and demanded to see his son
.
Angie reported him again.
Now they are in judgment by the alimentary quota and the regime of visits.
"I am afraid for my life, also that it will cause psychological harm to my son. He does not participate in anything he does, criticizes him, I am afraid of shared ownership. I want to go out quietly to the street, I want to be calm in my house , I want my son to be well.
I want him to do a treatment
-Angie cries at times-. I have a lot of pain, but above all, I am very afraid. "
At the end of 2019, when Macri left the Casa Rosada, Liporace was involved in a controversy after crossing paths with a state worker on Twitter who had questioned his food. To which Liporace replied: "
Go clean the dirty square tomorrow
, and shoot rockets and celebrate, subnormal", among other messages that spoke of "left-handed" and "resentful."