05/05/2020 - 17:01
- Clarín.com
- Politics
Judge Juan Ramos Padilla , member of the Oral Court 29 of the Federal Capital, issued a striking statement about Juan Bautista Mahiques , Attorney General of the City. Ramos Padilla, father of federal judge Alejo Ramos Padilla , said that Mahiques, a former official of the Ministry of Justice during the administration of Mauricio Macri, “was an operator, let's say he is a powerful man who did all the crap that can be done, from press judges to issue arbitrary prisons ”.
Ramos Padilla also said that "it is a debt of democracy to modify the Judiciary." " It is disastrous, the caranchos reign ," said the judge, despite the fact that he himself has been a member of that power for decades, the same as others. members of his family.
Ramos Padilla Sr.'s remarks came after Vice President Cristina Kirchner harshly criticized Mahiques this week . "I just heard on @ AM750 the judge Ana María Figueroa of the Federal Chamber of Criminal Cassation, recounting how she was pressured by Juan Bautista Mahiques, former Minister of the Magistracy by the Executive in the government of Mauricio Macri, within the framework of the cause Iran memorandum, "wrote the head of the Senate on her twitter account. However, Figueroa herself said that she had never referred to Mahiques . "I didn't say it was Mahiques, I said it was a high authority, it really was very complicated, but I don't want to give names," said the judge, also enrolled in Kirchnerism as Ramos Padilla.
The judge usually makes that kind of statement. Ramos Padilla was denounced this year before the Council of the Magistracy for the insults and disqualifications that he reveals in his twitter account, and that they target his colleagues and also leaders of the opposition to the government of Alberto Fernández. "Donkeys without morals", "hypocrites", "assholes", "traitors", "unpatriots" are some of the insults that the complaint contains where 52 tweets by Ramos Padilla are cited where the man manages to make himself understood despite the misspellings and half words.
In dialogue with FM La Patriada, Ramos Padilla also attacked the press. "If you want to go to court, Clarín attends you through the office he has there through (Carlos) Rosenkrantz," he said, adding: "I have been saying for years that Justice works for Clarín and the United States embassy."
The judge also spoke of the controversy over home prisons and said that "the issue of security has always been one of the favorite topics of authoritarianism to harm popular governments," referring to Alberto Fernández's administration. "In a moment as difficult as the one we are going through that these monsters appear worrying people is terrible," he concluded.
