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Pact with Iran: the errors and omissions of the video narrated by Pablo Echarri defending Cristina Kirchner

2021-05-05T10:11:43.930Z


Lawyers of relatives of those killed in the attack against the AMIA and judicial sources pointed out these mistakes and announced that they will reject the request for annulment of the oral trial.


Daniel Santoro

05/04/2021 2:53 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 05/04/2021 18:34

Tomás Farini Duggan, lawyer for the relatives of Luis Czyzewski and Mario Averbuch, victims of the AMIA attack, announced that he will

reject Cristina Kirchner's request for annulment

for the investigation of the cover-up of the authors of the attack and will request

that the oral trial based on the complaint of former prosecutor Alberto Nisman be completed.

In addition, Farini Duggan harshly questioned

"the legal errors and omissions"

of the vice president's video, the text of which they made actor Pablo Echarri read.

After the lawyer of former president Carlos Beraldi made that request supported by a video with the voice-over of the famous actor, Farini Duggan and other sources consulted by

Clarín

rejected the new K offensive against the cause in which the cover-up of Iran's performance in the attack against the AMIA, which left 85 dead.

“Cristina's request

is unheard of

.

He asks the oral court to hold an oral hearing but without opening the trial.

It is a procedural resource

 without antecedents

”, explained the lawyer to

Clarín

.

The federal oral court 8 (TOF 8), made up of judges Gabriela López Iñiguez, Daniel Obligado and José Michilini, must decide whether to accept the request.

López is the judge who dissented the conviction of Lázaro Báez in the trial for the route of the K money and Obligado the magistrate who gave the controversial house arrest to former vice president Amado Boudou for his conviction in the Ciccone case.

In Beraldi's presentation and in the video, "

there is no evidence whatsoever

 to procedurally support the request for annulment" of the oral trial, said Farini Duggan.

The vice president

tries to replicate

the strategy she used in the future dollar case in which, after a controversial videoconference, the cassation chamber annulled the oral trial.

In this case, Fernández de Kirchner requests it directly from the oral court.

"They want to make

a political show

with a case linked to international terrorism," warned the complaints.

Farini Duggan explained that Cristina's defense "is

scandalized

by the visits of the judges of Cassation Mariano Borinsky and Gustavo Hornos to the former president Macri in Olivos" that were registered in the list of entries and exits of the presidential residence.

"But there is not a single proof that there was a request for the case to be reopened due to Nisman's complaint," he said.


The defense of the vice president

questions

Borinsky and Hornos because they voted in December 2016 to reopen the Nisman complaint that Judge Daniel Rafecas and the majority of Chamber I of the Federal Chamber had filed.

However, it omits that Judge Ana Figueroa - who is praised in Echarri's video - also

voted in favor of the "resuscitating ruling"

, as the phrase says with irony and supposedly epic tone.

In 2016, the request for reopening was presented by DAIA, the entity that represents the organizations of the Jewish community from a political point of view.

That detail is also

omitted

in both presentations.

The grounds for challenge are, for example, meetings of a judge with the parties to a case, outside the process.

But Macri, mentioned in the video, was not part of the case, judicial sources consulted by

Clarín

highlighted

.

The video that the famous actor was made to read also speaks of

"firm failures"

regarding the file of the file.

However, not only did Cassation reopen the case, but the Supreme Court, months later,

confirmed the prosecution of Cristina

, the current Attorney General of the Treasury, Carlos Zannini and others.

In the case that began with the Nisman complaint, Cristina has a confirmed prosecution

for aggravated cover-up and obstruction of a functional act.

The video also questions that by lottery and

"by magic"

the cause of Nisman's complaint fell to the court of

Claudio Bonadio

, who thus, he says, began his "hunt."

On the other hand, it

does not question the draw

, made with the same method, by which TOF 8 was chosen for the oral trial.

Later, the audiovisual piece questions

Macri's "direct interference"

in the case because in January 2015, after the Nisman crime, he asked that the complaint of the former AMIA prosecutor be "continued, investigated."

In the video and in Beraldi's presentation,

a summary

is made

of all the cases that Cristina believes were part of her account of the

lawfare

and presents it as "a manual for political, judicial and media persecution."

"If the judge meets with a president, can he be independent?"

the video is asked in a dramatic tone, forgetting that Amado Boudou, as vice president, was attending the birthdays of the then judge of the Court, Eugenio Zaffaroni.

Beyond the ethical debate, what must be demonstrated in both cases, from the legal point of view,

is that there was a conspiracy in a cause.

Finally, the publicity piece shows videos of Alfonsín and

compares the Cambiemos government with the dictatorship

and says that this cause is one of the “most scandalous processes in our history”, among other disqualifying adjectives.

This new step by Cristina

means a change in strategy

, after the attempt to get the judgment annulled with the statement of the former head of Interpol Ronald Noble fell.

After several twists and turns, Interpol said Noble

cannot testify because he still has diplomatic immunity.

The debate about this former Interpol official

is based on Interpol's red alerts

on five Iranians accused of being the alleged masterminds of the attack who, according to Nisman's complaint, were going to be discharged after the signing of the pact.

The alerts are still in force today but with an added text, since 2013, which speaks of "a diplomatic negotiation between Argentina and Iran" for the attack that was not interrupted that year.

The other move on the case was materialized by the former AFI head Oscar Parrilli who requested, in 2020, the annulment of the file

due to a confusing complaint of pressure from the Cassation judge Ana Figueroa during the Macri government.

“If the false epic is taken out of the video and the writing becomes clear, Cristina's wish:

not to get to sit on the bench in the oral trial of this case,

” Farini Duggan summarized.

Now, the TOF 8 must decide whether to accept the unprecedented hearing before setting a date, as it has already been announced once and postponed, to start the oral trial.

Paradoxically, any complaint against this court must be processed by Chamber IV of Cassation made up of Borinsky, Angela Ledesma and Javier Carbajo.

And the integration of this room will be the

reason for challenges and another battle for Cristina

.

Source: clarin

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