The future of Emiliano Gatti will surely be linked to the verdict that the judges will announce this morning Luciano Garrido, Verónica Rodríguez and Emilio Stadler, in the trial against the journalist for possession and facilitation of images of child sexual abuse. The research began in 2022 and it was detected when different organizations that combat this type detected his journey through the eMule platform from where he would have downloaded at least 50 videos.
The judges’ decision It will be heard at 10:30 in one of the basement rooms of the court building. of Roca, where a large number of people are expected, including journalists from different media who will come to hear the resolution of the magistrates.
The trial lasted six days. There, each of the parts expressed his position regarding the issue that generated a wide impact throughout the region taking into account the activity that Gatti carried out on a journalistic level, on Channel 10, as well as in social activity.
He Thursday it was time for closing arguments. And the prosecution confirmed not only the indictment of the charges but also the technical expertise they carried out on the electronic media that was seized from Gatti’s house on November 15, 2022.
The fiscal Graciela Echegaray used the testimony of one of the witnesses as the main evidence proposed by the MPF. It was that of Cecilia Chiodi, a lawyer and representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.
Although her statement was postponed because she was abroad, the court agreed to postpone the presentation of the cybercrime specialist. The woman confirmed all the expertise and told how the procedures were carried out to begin the investigation of “Objective 66”the name given to Emiliano Gatti’s IP (internet user identification).
That was the key to clarifying the process that began with the reports of ICACCOPS (Internet Crimes Against Children Child Online Protection Systems) and CPSinternational organizations that are dedicated to finding users with this profile, indicated Chiodi.
In the midst of a framework of absolute confidentiality, The case then passed into the hands of the Río Negro Public Prosecutor’s Office, which for more than a month investigated the journalist’s personal movements. through members of the Investigation Brigade. During that period, they said at trial, they did not observe people entering the defendant’s house.
Finally On November 15, 2022, the raid was carried out not only on Gatti but also on two other people who, in parallel, the MPF investigated for the same crime in the cities of Cipolletti and Bariloche.
Emiliano Gatti trial: the journalist’s defense
In his closing statements, The defense of lawyers Joaquín Hertzriken Catena and Marcelo Hertzriken Velasco could do little to reverse the battery of evidence that came from the technical and computer teams of the prosecutor’s offices.
But also They tested a strategy with the statement of a technician who repaired a Gatti CPU. The testimony of the specialist who replaced the hard drive did not favor the situation much either, since he stressed that he made a copy to a new hard drive but said nothing about other copies that appeared on his devices.
The last day of the trial They also included the figure of a person who would have been the accused’s ex-partner who would have had free access to the journalist’s home. but finally the witness – who had been proposed by the defense itself – did not provide his testimony on the recommendation of one of Gatti’s defenders. He later revealed that the man wanted to give his statement to reject all the accusations that had been leveled against him during the trial.
Trial of Emiliano Gatti: the crime and the punishment
Gatti is charged with the crimes of facilitation of images of child sexual abuse (in 50 incidents), aggravated by the age of the victims (under 13 years of age), in ideal competition with tenure of images of child sexual abuse (50 incidents), aggravated by age of the victims (under 13 years of age); both in real contest with possession for unequivocal distribution purposes (50 facts), as author (arts. 45, 54, 55 and 128 first, second, third and fifth paragraphs of the CP).
For these facts he could be sentenced to a minimum sentence of 4 years in prison.
