“The picture that I have just described leads me to affirm that, although the high prison sentence imposed on José Jorge Alperovich has not been definitively ratified, it can be anticipated that if he regains his freedom he will try to evade the actions of justice and harm the objectives of the process,” argued Ramos Padilla, according to the resolution to which Noticias Argentinas had access.
The magistrate stressed that “the systematic violence that Alperovich exerted on” the victim cannot be overlooked. “To this is added the circumstance that, to ensure his impunity and avoid the formation of this file, Alperovich carried out various maneuvers. I will delve into this when providing the foundations of the sentence, but I highlight the attempts of the accused – by himself or by close to MFL – to prevent the complaint from coming to fruition, in a clear exercise of the power he held in his role as former governor and, at that time, senator,” he stressed.
The former governor’s lawyers had made the claim to prevent him from continuing to be detained in the Ezeiza prison and from being granted an electronic anklet.
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Alperovich was sentenced in the first instance to 16 years in prison and the judge yesterday ordered his preventive detention and immediate arrest. However, the defense has appeals and can do so regarding the conviction before the National Chamber of Criminal Cassation as well as before the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
Meanwhile, he is serving preventive detention and his defense claims that until the ruling is final he awaits release, which is why the request made after the conviction. According to the ruling, Alperovich was found guilty of two acts of attempted sexual abuse and another six of aggravated sexual abuse.
The political reaction to Alperovich’s conviction
The former governor of Tucumán José Alperovich was sentenced last night to 16 years in prison and disqualification from holding public office, after being accused of perpetrating nine acts of sexual abuse against his niece and former advisor between 2017 and 2018, which occurred both in the City of Buenos Aires as in the northern province.
After hearing the sentence, several political leaders echoed the news. One was the deputy María Eugenia Vidal, who in his pain, he could report it.”
Along the same lines, the former candidate of Freedom Advances Carolina Piparo He indicated: “I hope it is the beginning of the end of the impunity of feudal lords, who believe they are owners not only of provinces but also of lives and bodies.”
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Meanwhile, the former official of Alberto Fernández’s government Vilma Ibarra celebrated the “great news” of the conviction. “We will continue fighting for equality and to end violence and abuse against women. Power cannot give impunity. To anyone,” she launched.
From the left, Myriam Bregman He defined the event as “a historic ruling” and referred to Alperovich as “at the head of a provincial regime of impunity for those guilty of the crimes against Marita Verón and Paulina Lebbos, among many others.” “That’s why it’s much more than relief for the victim of abuse, it’s Justice for all victims,” he said.
