The Court of Appeals of Buenos Aires has rejected on Monday the request filed by Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to remove federal judge Maria Eugenia Capuchetti from the case of the assassination attempt against the president in September last year.
The defense of Fernández de Kirchner has argued that the judge performs paid work at the Higher Institute of Public Security of Buenos Aires, activities that they consider «incompatible» with her function, as they consider that the body itself should be «investigated in the proceedings» related to the assassination attempt.
However, the federal judge of the Buenos Aires Court of Appeals, Leopoldo Bruglia, has rejected these arguments of the vice-president’s defense considering that they are «alien» to the process and that they respond to the «creation of hypothetical scenarios far from any circumstance» that could justify removing Capuchetti from the case, according to the judicial resolution to which the Telám news agency has had access.
Therefore, Bruglia has concluded that it has not been proven that Capuchetti’s academic activity could determine in any way a specific interest in the outcome of the process, nor are there grounds to «cause a fear of bias that would warrant his removal».
«The exercise of teaching or the participation in research work such as those described are not forbidden for magistrates», concluded Federal Judge Bruglia in the above mentioned resolution.
Capuchetti is in charge of the case investigating the assassination attempt against Fernández de Kirchner last September 1, when the Brazilian Fernando Sabag Montiel pointed a gun at the Argentine vice-president in the vicinity of her own home.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
