Former Argentine president Mauricio Macri assured this Thursday (28) that he is a victim of persecution, during a hearing on the case in which he is accused of ordering illegal espionage carried out during his tenure at Casa Rosada.
“With each new aggression, each coup, each slander and each additional lie, my convictions are strengthened”, guaranteed the Argentine president from 2015 to 2019, who had to testify in a court hearing for the first time since he left the power.
Macri gave an interview after the session in the federal court in the city of Dolores, in the province of Buenos Aires, in front of a group of followers, who gathered to support him.
In the lawsuit, which is under the responsibility of prosecutor Martín Bava, the former head of government is accused of having ordered the families of the 44 crew members of the ARA San Juan de la Armada submarine, which was found sunk in 2018, a year later, to be spied upon. have disappeared.
The process began in September 2020, after a complaint made by the Federal Intelligence Agency of Argentina, after the beginning of the government of Alberto Fernández, Macri’s successor.
“If they think that these two years of aggression, disqualification, slander, persecution, almost a permanent obsession with me, that this will diminish my commitment to you to defend your values, they are very wrong”, said the former president.
third call
This was Macri’s third summons in the process, since the first, for testimony on October 7, was postponed due to the ex-president’s trip to the United States and ended up being rescheduled for the 20th, this one also rescheduled.
“Here I am, in Dolores, trying to understand this call, so untimely, without foundations, in the midst of an electoral campaign, but we are here, because we have always shown up, because we are calm, we know what we have done”, guaranteed Fernández’s predecessor.
The judicial process, in addition to seeking explanations about the allegations of espionage, aims to detect whether there were irregularities in the disappearance of the submarine that belonged to the Argentine Marina and also in the search operations.
The equipment was only located after a year, during an operation by the American company Ocean Infinity, although the wreckage and the bodies of the victims were never removed from the sea.
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source https://pledgetimes.com/macri-testifies-in-espionage-lawsuit-and-claims-to-be-a-victim-of-persecution/
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