The former president, currently under arrest for corruption, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, received the electronic ankle monitor this Thursday, which she must wear as part of her house arrest, ordered after the final conviction in the Vialidad case. The device was delivered by the Federal Penitentiary Service and placed at her residence in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Constitución, after the court rejected her defense attorney's request to avoid its use.
Meanwhile, as the court order was being carried out, a group of Kirchnerist activists organized a demonstration in front of Cristina's residence, located at San José 1111, in a clearly propagandistic display, with women wearing ankle monitors made of flowers. According to the demonstrators, the gesture was intended to "give another meaning to the ankle monitor of an illegal conviction." "Cristina is innocent and we all wear the ankle monitor," they stated, asserting that for them, the judicial device is a "certificate of dignity."
Militantes kirchneristas tras la detención de CFK.
The presence of the demonstrators took place at the corner of San José and Humberto I, after the Federal Oral Court No. 2 authorized the former president to use the balcony of her home. In an official notice sent to her defense, the court—presided over by Judge Jorge Gorini—clarified that "the court has not, in principle, prohibited Mrs. Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner from using or enjoying any specific space within the architecture of the property where she resides."
Militantes kirchneristas.
However, the judges also set limits on the detainee's public exposure, stating that "the applicant is expected to exercise sufficient judgment, prudence, and common sense to discern in which context the use of the balcony will be an innocuous action and in which it may cause a disturbance to the peace and peaceful coexistence of the neighborhood and its residents."
The measure is part of the enforcement of a historic conviction, which for the first time finds a former Argentine president serving house arrest with electronic monitoring after being found guilty of crimes against the State.
