Given the international repercussion caused by the shooting attack on the Messi family supermarkets in Rosario,
leaders of the opposition and the ruling party now promise
to speed up the appointment of judges for the vacant courts in Santa Fe - which has a third of the charges without cover - and even create new courts in that province plagued by drug trafficking, among other pending decisions.
In other words, out of 28 courts, only 18 are covered by regular magistrates.
The rest are substitutes.
Since the summit of judges in Rosario promoted by the president of the Court, Horacio Rosatti, in May 2022 the attack against Justice promoted by Vice President Cristina Kirchner
paralyzed the search for consensus
to take a set of measures in Congress and in the Council of the Magistracy, among them:
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Cover
the vacant courts, prosecutor's offices and defense offices.
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Implement the new Procedural Criminal Code in Santa Fe
that creates an accusatory system so that prosecutors carry out investigations instead of judges and speed up processes, as has already been done in Salta and Jujuy.
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Withdraw or further control the use of cell phones
among prisoners convicted of drug trafficking.
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Strengthen the Intelligence Directorate
of the Federal Penitentiary Service.
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Increase
controls on money laundering.
The representative of Juntos por el Cambio and member of the Council of the Magistracy, Alvaro Gonzalez, told
Clarín
"we should
speed up
the contests that we have pending, while the president should choose candidates from the shortlists that we raise, and the Senate approve to the elect."
Currently, there are 3 competitions for judges and 3 vacancies pending in the Judicial Council,
2 vacancies in which the president only has to choose one of three proposed candidates
and 4 that must be approved in the Senate, which is controlled by Cristina Kirchner .
The contests in process in the Magistracy are by three federal courts of Santa Fe.
For example, at the end of last year the Senate Accords Committee approved the documents of Elena Dilario, as chamber judge of the federal criminal oral court 2 of Rosario, and Eduardo Rodrigues da Cruz, as chambermaid of Santa Fe.
But they were not voted in the compound because Kirchnerism maintains an attack against the Court and the opposition refuses to discuss issues until the ruling party ceases its campaign.
Gonzalez also recalled that all the national deputies for Santa Fe, from the Frente de Todos, Juntos por el Cambio y el socialismo, presented
a bill to create more courts and prosecutors to fight against drug trafficking and that will be dealt with next Wednesday.
That day, the Justice Commission will address a project called "
Strengthening
Federal Criminal Justice in the Province of Santa Fe."
This commission, chaired by the ultra K and former director of the AFI Rodolfo Tailhade, will resume the treatment of the project that
establishes the creation of a court specialized in drug trafficking in Rosario
.
In addition, it raises the need to create
a Federal Criminal Court of Guarantees with a seat in the cities of Reconquista, Rafaela, San Lorenzo;
two new Federal Criminal Guarantee Courts in Rosario and two in the city of Santa Fe
.
All dependent on the Federal Court of Appeals of Rosario.
The following day, the Internal Security Committee of the Chamber of Deputies will receive the Minister of Security, Aníbal Fernández, who admitted that in Rosario
"drug trafficking has won."
Aníbal Fernández's exhibition will be held in the commission chaired by the pro-governmentist Ramiro Gutiérrez, after the agreement reached in the session last Tuesday by national deputies from the Front of All (FdT) and Together for Change (JxC).
The decision that led to the parliamentary agreement for the minister's visit was made after a proposal to that effect by the radical deputy from Santa Fe Juan Martín.
On the other hand, the president of the Supreme Court and president of the Judicial Council, Horacio Rosatti,
announced that eight cameras will be placed in the Federal Courts of Rosario
to attend to the "security emergency" that the city of Santa Fe is experiencing.
To the eight cameras will be added, in a period not yet defined, another 130 that will monitor the federal courts of Rosario.
Last week, Rosatti had
extended custody
to the federal judges of that province who investigate drug trafficking.
Yesterday, in his speech before the Legislative Assembly, President Alberto Fernández controversially accused the Supreme Court of the situation in the province of Santa Fe. He stated that "if the Supreme Court had not assaulted the Council
of
the Magistracy, today Santa Fe would not be suffering from the lack of courts that prevent the rapid prosecution of organized crime that has expanded in its territory," said the President, in the harshest attack of his administration on the Court.
However, the president has other measures pending in addition to electing judges from the two shortlists that have been in his hands since 2018.
This is
an increase in controls within the federal prison units
, from which -as the Narcocriminal Prosecutor's Office (PROCUNAR) pointed out- organized crime grew.
From those cells, judges and prosecutors in Rosario and Santa Fe are carrying out sensitive cases, were threatened on various occasions.
From the opposition they criticize the Comptroller of the Federal Penitentiary Service and member of "Legitimate Justice" María Laura Garrigós, for having
"practically dismantled" the intelligence directorate of that body.
Although the president, with a delay of almost three years, published in the Official Gazette
the creation of a branch of the Financial Information Unit (UIF) in Rosario
, to fight against money laundering, the channel that finances the activities of “Los Monos” and other organized crime gangs.
look also
They warn that drug traffickers have "political protection" in Santiago del Estero
look also
Message from the Court to the Government: so far this year it confirmed the sentences of 40 drug traffickers