Monday, January 30, 2023 | 10:30 a.m.
The Federal Justice will expand this week the investigation of Nicolás Gabriel Carrizo, arrested and prosecuted as a secondary participant in the attempted murder of Vice President Cristina Fernández, based on the discovery of messages on his cell phone that for the complaint are indicative that he could have had another role in the attack.
The extension of the investigation, postponed twice, is scheduled for tomorrow at 10 am and the procedural act will be headed by federal judge María Eugenia Capuchetti and the prosecutor who has delegated the investigation, Carlos Rívolo.
“Regarding what was requested by Dr. Gastón Matías Marano, suspend the hearing arranged for tomorrow and set a new date for 01/31/2023, at 10 a.m., in order to receive an extension of the investigative statement to Gabriel N. Carrizo”, was the resolution signed on January 9 by Judge Julián Ercolini, while replacing his colleague Capuchetti.
This last postponement originated from a proposal by Carrizo’s defense, which claimed that the procedural act be headed by Judge Capuchetti, the natural judge of the case.
It is probable that before the extension of the investigation is carried out, the judge will answer the last challenge raised by the complaint of Vice President Fernández, represented by the lawyers José Manuel Ubeira and Marcos Aldazabal.
In that recusal, presented on January 9, the complaint maintained that the judge could be acting conditionally because she had a paid job as an investigator at the Higher Institute of Public Security (ISSP) in the city of Buenos Aires.
Carrizo had been summoned to expand his investigation on January 5, but the act was postponed, first for the 10th of the same month, after his lawyer Gastón Marano informed the court that due to issues related to the judicial fair he would not be able to be present and then for the 31st.
The extension of the investigation was ordered after new text messages were found on Carrizo’s cell phone in which participation in the planning of the attack perpetrated against the vice president on September 1 was attributed: these messages were compiled in a work carried out by the Datip (General Directorate of Investigations and Technological Support for Criminal Investigation), which depends on the Attorney General of the Nation.
Judge Capuchetti had summoned him after the Buenos Aires Federal Chamber ordered him to move in that direction based on a proposal formulated by the former president’s complaint that the magistrate had rejected in the first instance.
That claim had been made by the plaintiff lawyers Ubeira and Aldazabal after learning of Carrizo’s messages on September 1 in which he stated: “We just tried to kill Cristina.”
“Remember this date”, “This hdp (sic) is already dead”, “You don’t know what we did with this”, “Create fear”, “So that the government knows who they are messing with”, are some of the messages sent from Carrizo’s cell phone.
