Former president Alberto Fernández, whose former partner Fabiola Yáñez has reported him for beating her on several occasions, has stated “he did not perpetrate any of these events” in an interview published on Tuesday by Spanish newspaper El País.
“I’m being accused of something I haven’t done. I didn’t hit Fabiola. I’ve never hit a woman,” said Fernández in an interview from Buenos Aires.
“I’m not here to feed into all the filth being generated in the media. I’m seeing you to tell you I did not perpetrate any of these events,” insisted the former Peronist head of state
“What I will do is wait, go to the justice system and let them solve it,” added the 65-year-old politician in the exclusive interview.
Yáñez lives in Madrid with the couple's small son, the fruit of a relationship that lasted around a decade.
On August 6, Yáñez, a former journalist and TV presenter, reported Fernández for physical and psychological violence.
Federal Judge Julián Ercolini has ordered the reinforcement of the former first lady's security detail in Spain, and barred the former president from leaving Argentina or contacting her.
The case has shaken the country, especially since the publication by news portal Infobae of images of Yáñez with marks and blows on her arm and face and chat messages that compromise the veteran Peronist leader.
Both the current President, Javier Milei, his political rival, and fellow Peronist and former head of State Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who served as Fernández's vice-president, have repudiated the former head of state for the alleged events attributed to him.
– TIMES/AFP
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