They agreed to pay a sum of money and the federal trial for deprivation of liberty in Roca will not continue

2023-05-23 16:41:49

After an agreement that was approved yesterday by the one-person Federal Judge Alejandro Silva, it was finally decided not to proceed with the trial for unlawful deprivation of liberty that was following Claudia Reyes, Zulma Dávila, Romeo Aguiar and Miguel Báez who were charged with the crimes of “illegitimate deprivation of liberty through threats.”

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In return, union members must pay a sum equivalent to 15 thousand dollars to the victim of the events that occurred in 2019, when she held the position of head of the Social Action area of the Nation, in Roca.

According to lawyer Diego Broggini, the “conciliation agreement” was finalized under the terms of articles 22 and 34 of the Federal Criminal Procedure Code, which admits this form of criminal dispute resolution.

«It does not imply acknowledgment of any type of responsibility or of the commission of a crime by the defendants, who thus fully maintain the constitutional presumption of innocence. and therefore its compliance implies the extinction of the case by dismissal, “revealed the lawyer in a note given to RIO NEGRO RADIO, although he avoided talking about the amounts that must be paid after the agreement.

Yes ok No details were revealed, it was learned that in return the four trade unionists -among which is Miguel Báez (ODEL) who accumulates several criminal cases- must pay an amount equivalent to 15 dollars to the victim in an estimated time as a way to compensate for the material and psychological damage caused by the violent events that occurred four years ago, at his private home, according to a source from the Federal Court of Roca.

the trial It had begun last week with the statement by Saigg who harshly questioned the procedure carried out by trade unionists and social leaders while he was in charge of the national organization. “They looked like a pack of dogs,” the former official said at the time.

After That first hearing reached the principle of agreement (among all the parties) that was finally approved yesterday by the Federal Judge, Alejandro Silva.

What crime were they accused of?

According to the research of Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF), the four leaders -among which is the son of the assistant secretary of ATE Nacional Rodolfo Aguiar- in September 2019 “jointly and in coordination with each other and in turn with the participation of approximately 60 people who are members of the social groups CTA de Río Negro, MAP (Movimiento de Acción Popular), MP (Resistencia Alta Barda) and the The ODEL Group, directed and under the orders of the defendants mentioned in the first place, established themselves at the door of the house inhabited by Lic. Edit Miriam Saigg, local Coordinator of the Ministry of Social Development of the Nation”.

Once in the place they placed “wood, sticks, covers that they set on fire, posters with intimidating phrases, flags alluding to the groups they represented, settling in the place, through a camp, where they played drums, threw eggs at the house and insulted Ms. Saigg shoutingpreventing the aforementioned official from mobilizing freely.”

The prosecutor explained in the indictment that they confined her to her home for at least two hours and during that time they prevented him from leaving. «They made demands and requests, making threatening statements such as those made by Miguel Ángel Báez: “If Miriam Saigg does not come out to give answers, we are going to stay for as long as necessary and we are going to take forceful measures, we are going to make a camp and we are going to fill the house with eggs‘».