They tried Jonathan Morrell and three other members of the Federal Revolution

The event was hosted by Judge Marcelo Martinez de Georgie; achieves the reference of the organization and Leonardo Franco Sosa, Gaston Ezequiel Angel Guerra and Sabrina Basile; All will continue without preventive detention

November 3, 202215:47

federal judge Marcelo Martinez de George Four members charged with criminal justice today Federal Revolution, the organization has been accused of spreading violent messages and “scratches” with the “main purpose of imposing one’s own ideas on the group and combating the ideas of others through fear.” size reaches the group referent, Jonathan Morrellalready Leonardo Franco Sosa, Gaston Ezequiel Angel Guerra i Sabrina Basile.

Four of them were processed without preventive detention and each of them will be subject to an embargo of nine million pesos. According to the judgment signed by De Giorgi, the defendants “encouraged persecution, hatred and violence against a certain part of the society, specifically the public authorities included in the political coalition.” in front of everyone and his supporters”.

Morel, 23, presents himself as the owner of a carpentry shop in Boulogne, and in May of this year he founded the Federal Revolution with Sosa, also 23. The group became known for using torches, guillotines and placards against the government. said “All the prisoners, dead or exiled,” which they exhibited in front of the Casa Rosada.

Last Tuesday, the Federal Chamber acquitted the four defendants. In a decision criticized by the government, the chamber then found that there were not “sufficient procedural risks” to “sustain a measure of personal coercion ordered by a qualified judge”, referring to Martinez de Giorgi, who detained them. and claimed that members of the Federal Revolution were not connected to the attack on the Vice President. However, de Giorgi said the group’s hate speech culminated in an attack on Christina Kirchner.

In the judgment he agreed to , De Giorgi said: “It is considered materially established that through this organization the defendants carried out a criminal scheme to push their ideas and fight others by force or fear.”

“For this – the judgment adds – they used dangerous demonstrations over time on various social networks – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – and mass media, distributed leaflets and self-invited protests, planned, coordinated and distributed hate messages, intimidation and violent demonstrations – mainly PEN’s current weather against the authorities and their sympathies. Thus, they have produced the desired effect of inciting collective violence to an unlimited number of people who can freely access said social networks.

The judge said the members of the Federal Revolution he was prosecuting “insisted on the mass dissemination of violent and threatening messages on social networks that promoted persecution, hatred and violence against certain sections of society – specifically the state-owned Frente de Todos political coalition and its supporters.” – and instilled fear in them.”

“Indeed,” said the judge, “many times they publicly stated: ‘We are going to persecute them, they will be afraid to go out on the streets (…) everyone will suffer their consequences. Demonstrations” “They should not be able to walk peacefully in the street” (…), a situation that culminated in the creation of a climate of collective violence, where an attempt was made to take the life of the Vice President. The nation was committed”.

The crime for which they were prosecuted today is Article 213 bis of the Criminal Code, which states: “Whoever carries out or participates in permanent or temporary groups that, without being included in Article 210 of this Code, have St. their main object or accessories force their ideas or fight others by force or fearwith the sole fact of being a member of the association.

According to the ruling, the members of the Federal Revolution had “the aim of imposing their ideas and fighting the ideas of others, instilling fear in the population and forcing the national public authorities to refrain from taking to the streets under safe conditions, to abolish the press.” conferences for fear of future harm, or appear in public with their supporters.”