Former Argentine President Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) will not be able to leave his country due to a court order issued this Tuesday following the decision of his ex-partner, Fabiola Yáñez, to report him for gender-based violence.
According to an order issued by federal judge Julián Ercolini and published by the Infobae website, the former president is prohibited from leaving Argentina or approaching Yáñez, who currently resides in Madrid with their two-year-old son, Francisco.
According to the court order, “such prohibition of approach implies suspending all types of physical contact, telephone contact by landline and/or cell phone, by email, text messaging system and/or voice through any platform, through third parties and/or by any other means that entails unjustified interference.”
The judge also ordered Fernández to cease “any acts of disturbance or intimidation that he directly or indirectly carries out towards Fabiola Yáñez both in the analogue and digital space.”
The judge also asked Argentina’s Ministry of Security to provide the necessary means to reinforce Yañez’s custody.
In his writing, Ercolini states that this case was initiated after having found, in the framework of another judicial investigation into alleged influence peddling by the former president, “conversations and images that would indicate the possible commission of the crime of minor injuries in a context of gender violence.”
This is the cell phone of María Cantero, the former president’s secretary, where photographs of Yáñez with signs of violence on her body were found, as well as text and audio chats in which the then Argentine first lady accuses Fernández of the alleged blows received at the presidential residence in Olivos (Buenos Aires province).
But on July 1, Ercolini closed the case after Yáñez “stated that he did not wish to pursue criminal proceedings at that time.”
According to the judge himself, on Tuesday Yáñez contacted Ercolini and told him that she was “suffering what she defined as ‘psychological terrorism’ from” Fernández, “as well as daily telephone harassment,” “psychologically intimidating her.”
“In response, she was asked whether she wanted to pursue criminal proceedings at this time, to which she expressly stated that, given what had happened, she did wish to do so,” the court document states.
In a brief statement on social media network X, the Peronist politician denied what Yáñez had alleged.
“Having learned from the media of Fabiola Yáñez’s complaint against me, I want to say that the truth of the facts is different. I will only say that it is false and that what she now accuses me of never happened,” said Fernández.
“For the sake of my children’s safety, my own safety, and that of Fabiola herself, I will not make any media statements, but will provide the courts with evidence and testimony that will show what really happened,” the former president added in his message.
Yáñez, 43, an actress and journalist by profession, met Fernández, 65, in 2013 when she interviewed him, and they began dating a year later.
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2024-08-31 09:28:04
