Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner once again challenged Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti in the case investigating the assassination attempt against her, which occurred on September 1, for her relationship with the Ministry of Security of the City of Buenos Aires .
“In times of violent right-wing – alluding to the attempted coup in Brazil – last night a challenge was filed against Judge Capuchetti for her dependence on the CABA Ministry of Security, the same one that fenced my house with fences and did intelligence at my home before and after the attack,” the former president reported on her Twitter account. In that same post, she shared the presentation -the second- that she made.
Among the grounds of the presentation made by the representatives of the vice president, José Manuel Ubeira and Marcos Aldazabal, “the incompatible activities of judge Capuchetti” are indicated. It is that – they indicate – last Friday “it was publicly known that Judge Capuchetti has a rented ‘job’ (sic) at the Higher Institute of Public Security (ISSP) of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.”
“Capuchetti, as reported by the ISSP on January 6, has been paid by the agency since 2014. This is also stated in documents that came to light on Friday and over the weekend. Since 2019, Capcuhetti went from being a researcher to “Senior Researcher” (Resolution No. 62/ISSP/19)”, is detailed in the letter.
“Then -he continues-, he maintained this position. This arises, for example, from Resolution No. 2/ISSP/22, of January 3, 2022, which appointed Capuchetti for one year as “Senior Investigator” of the organization. just one week, on January 2, 2023, Resolution No. 6/ISSP/23 extended this term for one more year.”
In the document, the lawyers point out that the ISSP “is not a body with academic purposes, but political ones.” “Even if he carries out academic activities, these activities have a strictly political purpose,” they clarify. And they maintain: “This is central because it implies that participating in the ISSP is equivalent to participating in a dependency of the Executive Power, and not in an academic dependency, beyond what is done in the organization.”
The vice president’s lawyers pointed out that “research tasks and public policy planning for an executive body are clearly prohibited for judges. And, as we have seen, the ISSP Observatory does not have teaching activities among its functions, so , if Capuchetti does something in addition to receiving a salary, it is clear that it is something incompatible with his position”.
The legal representatives of the former president also observed that the “political authority” of that body is the Buenos Aires Minister of Security and Justice on leave, Marcelo D’Alessandro, which “has a double impact: on the one hand, it is about a person who has made an illegal trip with media entrepreneurs and judges to Joe Lewis’s mansion in Lago Escondido, and from whom messages have been released that make it very clear his role in manipulating legal cases against Fernández de Kirchner and the political space it integrates”.
“On the other hand,” they added, “the CABA Ministry of Security is in charge of the City police, which should have been investigated in these proceedings (as was the Federal Police) but for which the judge did not provided a single measure.
“In a few words, Capuchetti collects money and advises an organization on which a security force that he explicitly failed to investigate depends,” the lawyers asserted.
For all of the above, they asked that the magistrate be removed from the case investigating the attempted murder of the former president.
