Cristina Kirchner asked to be a complainant in the case for the attack on her office

A little more than a week after the incidents in Congress on the occasion of the treatment of the law that authorized the Executive to take up debt with the IMF, the Vice President of the Nation and President of the Senate, Cristina Kirchner, submitted a brief in the Justice to be added as a complainant in the case that is caused by the damage to stones in his office.

In a brief submitted to the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 5, it is detailed that “on March 10, 2022, as part of the session in the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation aimed at discussing the agreement to refinance the external debt contracted with the International Monetary Fund in 2018 by the then Argentine Government, a broad mobilization of various social sectors in rejection of this project was concentrated in the Plaza de los Congresos in the Plaza de los Congresos.”

In the document, which bears the signature of Graciana Peñafort., as Director General of Legal Affairs of the Presidency of the Senate of the Nation, states that “despite the peaceful majority that demonstrated freely, it was possible to verify a group of people who, stationed at the intersection of Hipolito Yrigoyen and Entre Ríos, in a coordinated manner, began a violent attack on the National Congress, specifically on the windows that would open to the office of the Presidency of the Senate of the Nation, in which, at that time, both the current Vice-President of the Nation, Cristina E. Fernández de Kirchner, were both present Vice President of the Nation, the Senator Anabel Fernández Sagasti, Senator Oscar Parrilli and Representative Máximo Kirchner, among other collaborators.”

In addition, the letter states that “between the attacks with stones and the clear objective of the above-mentioned offices, marks were made with red paint on the area, a circumstance that could have served as signage”.

The damage to the front of the building, the office of the president of the Senate of the Nation and the danger to which the people inside were subjected, could only be avoided from approximately 3.21 pm, when a police cordon advanced over the area and dispersed the group of protesters who, incessantly, it aimed to directly attack this sector of the National Congress”, adds the lawyer.

Detained

For now, the City Police and the DDI of San Isidro arrested a few days ago in a joint operation one of the 8 suspected attacks on the office of Vice President Cristina Kirchner amid protests held last week in front of the National Congress when the agreement was being discussed with the Monetary Fund International.

The detainee was identified as Jaru Alexander Rodríguez, of Venezuelan nationality, a member of the Teresa Rodríguez Movement (MTR). He was found in a home in Acasuso along with four other people who were delayed by possession of marijuana plants.

Rodríguez joins another suspect who had been arrested in the first instance on Thursday for confronting the police and was later identified through security cameras as one of the aggressors of the former Head of State.

There are two open causes for the attack. One is being investigated by the Criminal Court, Contraventional and Misdemeanors 23 and the Eastern Tax Unit of the City of Buenos Aires, which ordered a series of raids that took place last night. The first was held in Florencio Varela, at the headquarters of the Teresa Rodríguez Movement, where there were no detainees but flags and other items that would have been used during last Thursday's march were seized. In a second procedure, carried out at a home in Acasuso located on Güemes Street, Rodriguez was arrested.

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