Judge Juan Ramos Padilla posted on his account Twitter an image where it was compared to Federal Oral Court 2 with the military meeting who ruled the country during the last dictatorship. “That’s how it was and we don’t want to go back to that” Ramos Padilla tweeted along with an image that approved Jorge Gorini, Rodrigo Gimenez Uriburu Y Andres Bassothe judges who sentenced the vice president Cristina Kirchner to 6 years in prison and perpetual disqualification from holding public office – with Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Eduardo Massera and Orlando Agosti.
Ramos Padilla is a staunch and declared Kirchner supporter who never missed an opportunity to express his support for Cristina Kirchner, even during the trial for the Cause Road. In fact, I do not hesitate to participate in the mobilizations carried out on the day the sentence was announced.
“If after knowing the verdict we do not make a town in Commodore Pynot only will we not have defended the best, but we will have let a historic moment pass by,” Padilla had declared several days before the verdict was announced. “Pueblada is not violence, it is the people expressing themselves peacefully in the streets to restore the rule of law and respect for the National Constitution,” he added.
Through his Twitter account, and on the occasion of the latest events, Padilla did not skimp on spicy statements against the Court and its judges, describing them as “mafioso judiciary”, whom it was necessary to “remove”. For all these statements, Ramos Padilla was denounced before the Council of the Magistracy by Apollo Foundation for, according to the complainants, “denigrating the Judiciary”.
This was not the first time that Padilla participated in a mobilization against the judges. On February 1, he participated, together with the social leader Luis D´Eliaof a march to demand the resignation of the judges Juan Carlos Maqueda, Carlos Rosenkrantz, Horacio Rosatti and Ricardo Luis Lorenzetti.
In May, legislators from Together for Change Juan Manuel López, Paula Oliveto Lago and Maximiliano Ferraro They denounced Ramos Padilla for the alleged crime of “sedition” for promoting marches where he demanded the resignation of said judges.
Juan Ramos Padilla has a vast history related to Human Rights both as a private lawyer against repressors and as a chamber judge. He is the father of the also judge Alejo Ramos Padilla.