Cristina Kirchner requested to be a plaintiff in the case for the attack on Congress

the vice president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchnerrepresented by the General Director of Legal Affairs of the National Senate, Graciana Penafortrequested this Monday 21 to be a plaintiff in the investigation of the cause on the attack on his office in Congresswhen the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Through a brief presented by the lawyer before the Federal Criminal and Correctional Court no. 5, it is detailed that on March 10, 2022, in the framework of the session in the Chamber of Deputies, “a wide mobilization from various social sectors in rejection of this project“.

“Despite the peaceful majority that manifested itself freely, could be verified a group of people who, stationed at the intersection of Hipólito Yrigoyen and Entre Ríos streetsin a coordinated manner, began a violent attack on the Congress of the Nationspecifically on the windows that gave onto the office of the Presidency of the Senate,” the letter continues.

“At that time, were both the current vice president of the Nation, Cristina E. Fernández de Kirchnerthe senator Anabel Fernandez Sagastithe senator oscar parrilli and the deputy Maximo Kirchner among other collaborators”, he specifies.

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In addition, the statement presented by Peñafort ensures that between the attacks “marks were made with red paint on the area”a circumstance that could have officiated signaling”and that the target of the incidents were the aforementioned offices.

Legal qualification of attacks on Congress

Within the sections, the document indicates that it can be sustained prima facie that the conducts carried out could be subsumed within the criminal types of “aggravated damage“, “public intimidation” and “attempted injury“.

“Notwithstanding the progress of this investigation and the individualization of people that they could be perpetrators, participants and/or instigators of the facts denounced,” he adds.

“This, being that the material damage, as well as the physical integrity of people who were in the attacked office turn out to be members of the Legislative power of the Nation in the exercise of its functions”, concludes the letter.