Claudio Savoia
07/12/2021 17:32
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 07/12/2021 5:32 PM
The editor of the Agencia Nova website,
Mario Casalongue
, was sentenced to
25 days in suspended prison and a probation
for having harassed and discriminated against the partner of President Alberto Fernández, Fabiola Yáñez, and his son, Estanislao Fernández, with his notes. then
having disobeyed the court order
to stop these alleged attacks and remove the offensive notes from the Internet.
The sentence, signed this Monday in the early hours of the afternoon, was agreed within the framework of an
abbreviated trial and a suspension of the trial process
, in which the accusations of the complaints were unified -Yáñez, Fernández and the lawyer of both ,
Juan Pablo Fioribello
, who was also the target of Casalongue's publications- and closed with the agreement of the official defender of the accused, before the misdemeanor and misdemeanor court number 6 in Buenos Aires.
Regarding the complaints of
symbolic, media and labor violence against women
, the official defender
Marcela Paz
promised Casalongue that for two years
she will not be able to contact Fabiola Yáñez, nor name her in public media;
will attend the Side V anti-discrimination workshop, and will complete 5
0 hours of community tasks
in a designated location.
In addition, the owner of Nova will be required to
make public apologies on their own website
.
The prosecutor in the case,
Daniela Dupuy
, endorsed that agreement.
The First Lady Fabiola Yañez with the lawyer Juan Pablo Frioribello, arriving at the Buenos Aires court in Palermo.
Behind them, Estanislao Fernandez.
Photo Germán García Adrasti.
As
Clarín
reported
at the time, the case had begun with the complaint of the President of the Nation's partner for the dissemination of two notes on the
Agencia Nova
site
on April 5 of last year, "with a clear
offensive, discriminatory message.
, and with images alluding to different private parts of Fabiola Yáñez's body, without her consent. "
According to the judicial agreement signed this Monday, "said information was disseminated
knowing
that it was
false and with total disregard
for the real impact that they could cause on the name and honor of the victim."
Two weeks later, on April 24, those allegedly offensive posts were reiterated by Casalongue on his Nova RíoNegro.com site.
That same day, the editor deepened his grievances against the president's partner in his Twitter account, where
he referred to her as "bitch" and "cat"
, and fought with several of his followers with degrading references to women .
The President's son, Estanislao Fernández, arriving with his father's partner at the Buenos Aires criminal court in Palermo.
Photo Germán García Adrasti
Beyond the reprehensibility of his conduct, Casalongue was opening a second front in justice: by that time, he had already been denounced by Fabiola through the lawyer Fioribello,
selected and personally hired by Alberto Fernández
to end the insults to his wife . This time under absolute reserve, the criminal mediatician
moved quickly and achieved immediate results.
By the time the publisher issued his second volley of insults,
he had already been forbidden to do so
by a court order.
Even with a second complaint in his pocket - this time for
disobedience
- Casalongue again charged Yañez with another note on May 2, and on May 20 he
also launched it against Estanislao Fernández
, Alberto's son, with another publication loaded with
offenses, insults and prejudices
regarding a supposed sexual choice of the young man and his way of dressing when he plays characters as a cosplayer.
Estanislao denounced the owner of Agencia Nova for
discrimination and digital harassment.
Mario Casalongue, the editor of the Agencia Nova website, convicted of harassing Fabiola Yañez and Estanislao Fernández.
Photo Germán García Adrasti.
"It should be noted that these publications generated repudiation by some readers of the site, qualifying them as discriminatory, homophobic, misleading and fallacious," clarifies the judicial text agreed on Monday as an argument for the conviction of Casalongue.
In the midst of that shrapnel of controversial notes, the shots also came against the lawyer, Fioribello, who added his own name among the publisher's plaintiffs, also for
"digital harassment."
The lawyer Juan Pablo Fioribello
Although during the Casalongue process he disobeyed the court orders against him and tried to evade justice by escaping the judicial notifiers - who came to identify where he was with the help of a drone - this Monday the editor lowered his flags:
"I acknowledge plainly the facts attributed to me and the evidence offered by the Prosecutor's Office against me, "he
signed.
Together with his partner,
Mariano Lizardo
, the lawyer Fioribello represented all the complaints and negotiated the agreement signed this Monday in a court in Palermo.
A year after the initiation of the actions, the lawyer so far avoided contact with the press and also the possible controversy for
what at first could be interpreted as an attack on freedom of expression.