In the jury for gender violence, the accused denied everything and said that the prosecutor Inés Gerez "hates me"

2023-09-25 15:18:42

The civil defender of San Martín de los Andes, Javier Cassano, rejected the five charges against him for which he was taken to a Trial Jury, denied having committed gender violence against his ex-partner, minimized the facts and attributed everything to a chain of misunderstandings. She combined it with an investigation “riddled with irregularities” and accused the prosecutor of the lake city, Inés Gerez: “hates me” and “he wants me out of the Judiciary,” he stated.

Cassano formulated an extensive defense before the Jury of Prosecution that this Monday began to examine his conduct in the Legislature. Chief defender Laura Giuliani made an opening statement that was limited to the technical.

Chief prosecutor Sandra González Taboada, in charge of the prosecution, attributed the cause of “poor performance” for an act of gender violence that occurred on September 7, 2019. “Cassano repeatedly failed in his duties as a judicial official” and “affected the image of the Judiciary,” he argued.

The civil defender He challenged all the members of the Superior Court so that they do not intervene in this jurybecause he considers that they already expressed an opinion during the investigation of the summary against him.

By subrogation, the president of the Jury is the labor judge Dalma Rosa Tejada, and it is also made up of the co-judges Lucas Pablo Juan Yancarelli and Mariano Andrés Brillo, the deputy María Laura Du Plessis, the deputy Eduardo Sergio Daniel Fernández Novoa, and the lawyers Simón Julio César Hadad and Nicolás Lupetrone.

The jury will last four days, and almost 40 witnesses will testify. In his verdict he can acquit the accused, suspend him for 1 to 60 days, or remove him.

The prosecution’s accusation

The Trial Jury against Cassano began this Monday in the Legislature. (Florencia Salto)

According to the chief prosecutor’s opening statement, Cassano and a young woman had been in a relationship for a year. The day of the incident they were returning from Chapelco Hill in the defender’s truck, they had an argument, she got out of the vehicle, He took his wallet and locked himself in his house.in a neighborhood of San Martín de los Andes.

To recover it, Cassano he broke the access door with a kick, hit his ex-partner in the mouth and left with the young woman’s boots, jacket and cell phone. She returned after a while; She returned his wallet and he returned his clothes..

The victim reported him to the police stationand the civil defender presented hours later a counterclaimin which he accused her of scams and said he had been threatened by her.

The young woman wanted to close the criminal case that was opened for that episode. According to prosecutor González Taboada, it was due to the influence of Cassano, who took advantage of the asymmetric relationship between both: by age, gender, health status, economic situation, level of education, among others.

“It was an irrelevant fact”

Cassano, civil defender in San Martín de los Andes, formulated an extensive defense. (Florencia Salto)

In his own defense, the accused said that “This was an event in my private life, irrelevant, isolated, framed in a health situation” of his ex-partner. He denied gender violence and stated that the only thing that happened was “accidental damage to a door frame, and not because of a kick, which cost 500 pesos to fix.

He strongly questioned the wiretapping that compromised him. “They are unconstitutional, and it is the only evidence that the prosecution has”.

Misunderstandings and hatred

The prosecution is led by chief prosecutor Sandra González Taboada. (Florencia Salto)

According to his version, there was a chain of misunderstandings. Her ex-partner was in a complex medical situation, she had no intention of doing anything a complaint for gender violence but rather an exposure Because of the damage to the door, the police officer who took the report he misunderstood herstated that “she did not want to expand the complaint” but it is clear that she did, and so on. “I had no idea what I was doing.”assured Cassano.

Then he added the component of the bad intention of the prosecutor Inés Gerez (legal assistant at that time). She said she told her ex-partner: “With the hatred that the prosecutor’s office has for me, they are going to want to put me in prison” and? “He wants to leave me without a job”.

I affirm that The State exercised violence against women, and not him.

The victim was not summoned by the prosecution, but the defense asked that he testify in the jury. It will be Tuesday at 9.