The Buenos Aires Federal Chamber dismissed former President Mauricio Macri on Friday in the framework of the case in which he is being investigated for alleged illegal espionage of the relatives of the crew of the submarine ARA San Juan, sunk in the Argentine Sea in 2017. The accusation involved spying on the families of the victims through photos, searches on social networks, follow-ups and infiltrations in marches, when they asked for help to find their loved ones lost at the bottom of the sea. According to Télam, the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber understood that there was no crime, because the actions were “presidential advances” that are preparing to take care of the president’s security. They also dismissed the hypothesis that the federal court of Dolores had that the facts were involved in “illegal intelligence” tasks that sought to control the protests and influence public opinion. There is sufficient evidence to affirm that the activities carried out had as their sole objective presidential security and/or internal security, and for that reason they are justified. This, by virtue of the regulation applicable to the case, the assignment of functions that arise from the organizational charts of the official agencies involved, as well as the testimonial and documentary evidence gathered, “details the ruling signed this Friday.
The truth won. The truth can still win in Argentina. Let us not lose faith. There is less and less time for Argentina to change forever. — Mauricio Macri (@mauriciomacri)
July 15, 2022
In addition, the ruling involved the dismissal of the former directors of the AFI, Gustavo Arribas and Silvia Majdalani, and a group of eight officials and agents of the AFI base of Mar del Plata.
The federal judge of Dolores, Martín Bava, had pocesado Mauricio Macri on December 1, because he found him “criminally responsible for the crime of carrying out prohibited intelligence actions as an author by virtue of having enabled the production of illegal intelligence tasks.” It was Mauricio Macri who not only allowed the performance of these illegal tasks, but used that information to make decisions. In some cases these decisions had to contain advance information about the claims he would receive or the demonstrations organized by the victims before the visit of the then President to the city of Mar del Plata, “said Judge Bava in the prosecution. ” On other occasions, (the decisions questioned were intended) to maintain the constant and systematic follow-up of the protest measures of the group of relatives who are victims of these illegal tasks,” the judge wrote.
