«There is a person who wants to enter the commission room by force, the security forces must be notified. If he enters, we must tell him that the first comment he makes, we will remove him. The warning came from the president of the Constitutional Affairs commission, Ernesto Novoa, this morning minutes before the meeting began. The man did not enter, but He managed to cross paths with the candidate for chief prosecutor Manuel Islas and scolded him: “You have a difficult time.”he told him, according to Islas.
The scandal upset the members of the commission. Nobody explained who had allowed the individual accesswho Islas declined to identify but described as “a merchant who “He was accused of an alleged crime against sexual integrity”.
This man was subjected to a jury trial and acquitted. Since then maintains a personal crusade against Islandswho was the prosecutor who carried out the investigation against him.
Islas won the contest to be chief prosecutor in San Martín de los Andes. As soon as he sat down in front of the deputies for the usual interview before his statement was processed at the venue, he revealed: “when I was in the waiting room, a person approached me who was accused by the prosecutor’s office under my charge for the alleged crime.” of sexual abuse telling me, I think for the purpose of intimidating me, without success, you have it complicatedwhich had ruined his life, and he retired for the same place for the same place, which is the sector through which the deputies come. “It seems to me an act that conditions the normal functioning of the institutions.”
The seriousness of the incident worried the members of the commission, who asked him for details about the identity of the man who had rebuked him. “Otherwise it remains a transcendental issue, a minor issue,” said Damián Canuto.
César Gass and Guillermo Monzani highlighted that you have to pass three controls before reaching the sector where the deputies are.
Islas remained firm in not giving the name, and explained the scope of the crime of threats to indicate that this figure had not been committed.
For his part, Claudio Domínguez let Islas know that the sector from which the man appeared “are the bathrooms.” The prosecutor responded “he is obviously a person who knows the provision, “I didn’t want to involve any of you.”. To which Domínguez replied: «As he said, yes». Islas said that had not been her intention.
Explanations of Islands
The legislators’ interview with Islas was marked by that incident.
The current Sexual Crimes prosecutor mentioned that he had been victim of defamationand Deputy Gass asked him to explain what he meant.
Islas expanded: «In one of the news that was spread in the RÍO NEGRO newspaper Strikingly, in a very particular context, reference is made to the fact that I am in someone’s sights, it is not known specifically what the fact is, it is a chief prosecutor talking about a jury trial, trying to explain why a verdict could not be obtained of guilt.”
“In the second news item that comes out the next day, the same journalist says that the processing of the document went cold, when you had not notified me of anything.”
“It’s defamation”
«I have notarized certification – he continued – that the person who approached me before this interview, in the comments at the bottom of that second news item, makes a statement that I have just reversed with the certificate of absence of disciplinary sanctions. He says “This Mr. Islas has other complaints of harassment and many more complaints of corruption”.
«That is a defamation. It does not amount to slander or insult, it is a general statement, but it does disgrace, attacks my reputation, my credibilitywhich is the main capital that a prosecutor has, this defamatory statement goes against the certificate of the Human Management Directorate which says that I have no complaints or sanctions of any nature.
Islas assured that “all this has been clarified in the institutional environment to which I belong,” and stated that “this is a striking situation, The news was taken out of context, inspired by I don’t know whose malice, with the intention of harming«.
“I’m here against any kind of suggestion, because I trust you, I know you are going to do what you have to do. “I will respect any decision they make.”
What was published
What he published RÍO NEGRO newspaper was that during a jury trial held behind closed doors against a man accused of abusing an ex-partner and the daughter he had had against another ex-partner, the accused revealed that Islas followed up with the first of the victims on the social network. Instagram.
It also came to light that Islas had told the girl what the result of the Gesell camera had been. The accused He was acquitted by the popular juryit is unknown whether by unanimity or by majority since that information is not revealed in cases of not guilty verdicts.
Before publishing the information, this newspaper tried to communicate with Islas personally and through institutional channels. The prosecutor did not answer, and it was made known that the answers would be given by his boss, Maximiliano Breide Obeid. What the chief prosecutor said was then recorded.
The commission issued an office to the list of Islas, who is running for chief prosecutor of the Fourth District – covers San Martín de los Andes, Junín de los Andes, Villa La Angostura, Villa Traful and Piedra del Águila, among other localities – and the list It will be discussed in the sessions this Wednesday and Thursday.
