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Cristina Fernandez bashes the Judiciary on scandalous forced prostitution case ruling

“I have no proofs but I’m certain there was money involved” claimed the Argentine president (Photo: Telam)

In the midst of her fight with the courts over the Media Law, Argentine President Cristina Fernández took time to bash the Judiciary after Tuesday’s a scandalous ruling on the disappearance of a young woman, (kidnapped and forced into prostitution) with all suspects acquitted of all charges.

Speaking during the inauguration of an appliances factory in Northern Buenos Aires the president started her attack saying “there’s an evident divorce between society and Justice in this country”, and then add: “I couldn’t believe it when an assistant told me that all 13 suspects of the Marita Verón case were acquitted”

Furthermore, and after the many public accusations of corruption involving the three judges of the case, Cristina Fernández said: “I have no proofs, but I’m certain and doubtless of one thing: when there’s money involved, Judges don’t care about anything.”

Thus the Argentine president completed the attack to the three judges (Alberto Piedrabuena, Emilio Herrera Molina, and Eduardo Romero Lascano,) that decided to acquit on all charges the suspects in the case regarding the kidnap and forced prostitution of Tucumán resident Marita Verón on April 3, 2002, plus the Judiciary branch.

Revealing what seems to be her next crusade and most probably lit by the latest setback the government suffered on regards the Media Law and its personal battle against the Clarin a media Group, the president said: “It is time, and I hope everybody understands this, to start a democratization process of the Judiciary branch since it seems to be the one that makes the final calls”, and added, “Take as example how they revise all my decrees.”

Verón’s mother, Susana Trimarco, has been searching for her daughter ever since that afternoon she went missing. After Tuesday’s ruling she insisted that “the battle will go on. I am not going to stop; this is just like starting again.”

Trimarco has already told the press she will go for the impeachment of “these corrupted judges”.