The head of Lomas de Zamora’s UFI No. 9, which specializes in gender and family violence, Sebastian Biskert, requested the arrest of gynecologist Diego Javier Clementi, who is being prosecuted for sexually abusing six women in his office, But there are a total of 16 legal complaints from the same period, as the victim’s advocate told TODAY.
“Today the prosecutor informed us that he requested Clementi’s arrest as we requested last week, and we also learned that the gynecologist’s lawyer requested his release from prison,” present with the victims said lawyer Claudia Perugino. And last Wednesday he appeared. with the final eight complainants to formalize those charges.
“Now we have to wait and see what the guarantees judge defines,” he said.
The lawyer also said that the defendant presented three new defense attorneys, one of whom is Gastón Marano, who is known to be one of those representing Gabriel Carrizo, who was appointed by Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Was arrested for assault against a member of the so-called. “Band of Cups”.
On 30 April, it was reported that Clementi continued to attend his clinic in Bujarco, downtown Buenos Aires, despite being prosecuted for six sexual assaults against women that occurred during medical consultations, and under investigation for other similar complaints.
The gynecologist is medical director of the Burzaco Women’s Medical Center and maintains her registration granted by the Medical College of Buenos Aires Province, District II, which did not respond to repeated requests from this medium.
At the Evita de Lanus hospital, where Clementi was chief of service, on the other hand, he was kept isolated from patient care “until justice determines his responsibility in the reported cases,” according to what he indicated.
The unified cause is being investigated by the UFI No. 9 of Lomas de Zamora, specialist in gender and family violence, according to the official document under “IPP 07-00-9312-17 and its accumulated file.
