After the release of the two men who were detained for 50 days for having published ironic tweets and photos on social networks that allude to an alleged infidelity of the wife of the former governor of Jujuy, the radical Gerardo Morales, the third defendant in the case spoke. and said he was "afraid to return to Jujuy
.
"
She is an architect who is subject to an arrest warrant, although this Wednesday the prosecutor asked to suspend this measure.
"I found out while on vacation because I had had vans driving around my home for 3 days without a license plate that questioned and harassed my neighbors asking about me, if I lived there, when I was arriving, if I had security cameras in the area," he said in In dialogue with
Futurock
, the lawyer
Lucía González
, who today is, according to the prosecutor in the case, in Uruguay, far from Jujuy.
According to her testimony,
"they were unmarked vans with people dressed in civilian clothes"
who in recent days, on a new visit to her house, asked her mother if Lucía "was going to return and when she was going to do so."
"They told her that they were coming from computer crimes, or something like that, and my mother told them that if they had a written summons to leave it, but they told her that they had nothing there," she said, commenting that she feels intimidated by this persecution.
"Because of the way the persecution of me and the detainees was started, I was suspicious because
these were ways that were already happening in our province
," he added.
Lucía, who spoke before learning that the prosecutor asked to lift the request for her arrest, also explained that her case was separated from that of her two friends, Nahuel and Roque, who were released in the last hours after being detained for more than a month. and half detained.
Regarding the reasons why Justice went after her, González mentioned that she has "a chat of friends that was set up at the World Cup to organize a party" and that there she commented "
that she had gossip that was already swarming throughout Jujuy, in the work, everyone was already talking about it
. "
And she denied that she was the one who started the rumor: "I have more important things in my life than inventing this, it was gossip that was circulating. As of Monday they are saying that I orchestrated this situation, which is not true, is a lie".
He also said that his case now goes outside the one that was initiated against his two friends and that they reached it "because when Nahuel is arrested, they dig into his cell phone" and there they find "the only evidence" against him, which is "a private chat."
"WhatsApp is a private network. Everyone has their privacy, it is people's intimate lives," he defended himself.
Regarding his current situation, he said that at the moment he had "an arrest warrant at immigration and a detention order that was renewed 10 days ago."
But even though he already had an order when he went on vacation, of which he had no news, he crossed borders from province to province by plane without problems.
"I'm still here, where I was on vacation, because because of the escalation of the issue, I haven't slept for several days, it's an abrupt, huge escalation," he said.
"With this week's escalation,
I haven't slept for a few days and I get very nervous when I speak
. I don't do this in life.
I'm afraid to go back to Jujuy
. The prosecutor has made me verbal offers to stand up straight and I don't know what My lawyer can explain that better. But with the offers I do not feel safe. I do not feel that it is a just cause. A cause based on social networks would correspond to an insult, a slander, requesting a public apology, another type of resolution, no. this and this cruelty, because that's what I consider to be with a group of friends," he added.
Finally, she referred to the relationship she maintains with the two recently released men: "I am very close friends with both of them, at the time they arrested Nahuel, commissions were set up, I helped take care of the girls who are my nieces and I suspected because "These are ways that have already been happening in our province for some time, especially when the reform occurred. The way of vans without a license plate and several days of intelligence had been seen in the province since June, more or less."
And he closed: "I am worried about my psychological and physical situation, I lost hair, I am all over the place from nerves, from not sleeping, I am in a loop.
Even though they have freed Nahuel and Roque, this is not over.
They continue with their causes and the Mine too".
In the last few hours it was learned that the prosecutor finally decided to file a request to annul the request for the architect's arrest so that she could appear before Justice, because if the accused is not present the case cannot move forward.
Who are the other two accused and what situation were they in?
Nahuel Morandini and Roque Villegas
spent more than 50 days in prison in Jujuy for having published ironic tweets and photos on social media that alluded to an alleged infidelity on the part of the wife of the former governor of the province, the radical Gerardo Morales.
Although they will continue to be prosecuted and are headed to trial, on Monday the prosecutor ordered that they be released since he considers that there is no procedural risk.
The resolution was made in a hearing held this Monday morning and represents a turn in the case, which began on January 4 when Tulia Snopek, partner of the former provincial president, filed a complaint with Justice.
The complaints sought to keep both of them in prison and requested the arrest of a third defendant, the architect Lucía González.
Marcelo Nahuel Morandini, a 45-year-old environmental engineer and university professor, was accused of publishing on December 19 on his personal X account an ironic tweet that said: “The teki carnival has been held in Jujuy for several years now.” (a scam that tourists fall into).
But this year it is not done.
And it all seems to be
because one of the tekis teaches the former governor's wife how to play the quena
.
Impossible to get bored in kukuy.”
At the same time, Humberto Roque Villegas, 42, was also arrested, accused of spreading photos of Morales' daughter on Facebook, insinuating that the girl was born as a product of the relationship of Morales' wife, Tulia Snopek,
with a musician from the folklore group Los Tekis
.
The prosecutor in the case, Hugo Walter Rondón, from the Special Prosecutor's Office for Economic Crimes and Crimes against Public Administration No. 1 of Jujuy, considered that these publications affect Snopek and also his daughter.
“The marital status of a totally innocent person was disturbed, causing damage that is practically impossible to compensate,” said the prosecutor in relation to the girl, according to the newspaper
La Nación
.
Now the judicial official has decided to cease the detention, since he considers that there is no procedural risk for the continuity of the process.
The cessation of preventive detention does not separate the accused from the case, in which they are accused of the crimes of identity suppression to the detriment of a minor and psychological violence in the context of gender violence.
Both would be brought to trial in a case being carried out by Judge Pablo Pullen Llermanos.
The fact of keeping two people detained for publishing ironic or direct comments about the infidelity of a politician's partner has no known precedent in the country.
Conviction of the crimes of psychological injuries and alteration of the identity of a minor can represent a sentence of eight years in prison.
The case also reached national politics on Monday.
President Javier Milei expressed his "concern" about the arrests.
His spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, highlighted in a press conference the need for individual freedoms to be respected in the northern province.