Kirchnerist activist Leandro García Gómez was arrested after kidnapping and drugging Lourdes Fernández
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The ex-boyfriend of singer Lourdes Fernández, known for being part of the Bandana group, was arrested this Thursday in an apartment in Palermo after being accused of kidnapping her, drugging her, and holding her against her will. This is Leandro Esteban García Gómez, a 47-year-old businessman, with a background in state agencies during the Kirchner administrations and founder of the group "La Néstor Kirchner."
Lourdes Fernandez, ex cantante de Bandana.
Lourdes's rescue and the state in which she was found
The City Police raided García Gómez's residence on Ravignani Street, where they found the artist sedated and disoriented, so she was urgently taken to Fernández Hospital. The family had reported her disappearance days earlier and feared that she was in the hands of her ex-partner, with whom she had a violent relationship.
Lourdes de Bandana, agredida durante mucho tiempo por Garcia Gómez.
According to police sources, the operation was carried out after obtaining a court order. Hours earlier, García Gómez had tried to distance himself from the incident in front of cameras, accusing the media of "distracting with this so as not to talk about the country's situation."
The detainee already had a previous case for gender-based violence, had worn an electronic ankle monitor and was monitored by the Oral Criminal Correctional Court No. 21. In addition to complaints from his ex-partner Lourdes in 2022, when the artist had stated that he drugged her without her consent and filmed her naked.
A past linked to Kirchnerism
García Gómez worked in various areas of the State during the Kirchner administrations: Ministry of Economy, Secretariat of Industry, and ENARSA, among other agencies. In 2016, together with former officials from the same political space, he founded the group "La Néstor Kirchner," a splinter group from La Cámpora promoted by Guillermo Moreno.
Agrupación "La Nestor Kirchner"
While Kirchnerism presented itself as the government "of rights and inclusion," its ranks were filled with officials and activists involved in cases of abuse, harassment, and gender-based violence. García Gómez is a new case within a long list of K leaders with criminal records that the then-officialism never condemned.
"Let Cristina come back now. This can't go on any longer," García Gómez claimed early this Thursday in Palermo, escorted by journalists who asked him about Lourdes Fernández, who had been out of contact with her circle for several days.
The impunity of power
The case once again exposes the hypocrisy of Kirchnerism, which, while raising feminist flags and handkerchiefs, protects and silences its own abusers. Fernando Espinoza in La Matanza, José Alperovich in Tucumán, Hernan Sabbatella in Morón, those are just some of the cases that none of the feminists came out to condemn, since they were part of their own ranks.
García Gómez is yet another case in which they will surely choose to remain silent. Because for them, political ties matter more than an independent justice system that works.
