Defending. The release of the Vélez goalkeeper, one of the four footballers involved in a complaint of sexual abuse

Sebastian SosaUruguayan goalkeeper from Vélez, spoke after being involved in an investigation for sexual abuse to a 24-year-old sports journalist from Tucumán. The 37-year-old footballer, a World Cup winner in Qatar 2022, chose social networks to make his defense: “I repudiate violence of any kind.”, I respect the physical and sexual integrity of every person; I trust in justice.” The Liniers club made the decision to separate him from the professional squad, along with the other three players who also appear in the court file: the youth Abiel Osorio (21 years old), the Paraguayan Jose Florentin (27 years old) and Brian Cufre (27 years old, team reinforcement for this season). The four will now practice separately from the first division squad.

The president of Fortín also spoke, Fabian Berlanga. In statements to DSportsthe top leader of the Liniers club said: “We are impacted. I was at the door of the hotel when the girl who appears in the complaint entered. She must have walked past me and I didn’t notice. “I don’t know how to handle it.” Furthermore, he stressed that his club “He is not charged and does not have access to the case”. And he added: “We reported what the complaint said, there was no reason to hide it. It had to be conveyed and shown up. I spoke to only one player and he told me some things. I replied that he preferred not to know anything in this case and wait for him to give explanations to the justice system. There, one gets carried away by the love one has for them and goes out to defend something that is not real.”.

I repudiate violence of any kind.
I respect the physical and sexual integrity of every person.
I trust in the swift action of justice.

— Sebastian Sosa (@sebauruguayo1) March 8, 2024

The young woman reported that the event took place in the early hours of this Sunday at the hotel, to which the Vélez delegation had returned after the match they had played that night against Atlético Tucumán for the Professional Football League (LPF) Cup.

According to the text, which he accessed THE NATION, the complainant said that around 10 p.m. on Saturday a Vélez player invited her, through an Instagram message, to appear at the Hilton Hotel, located on Piedras and Miguel Lillo streets. She identified the archer Sebastian Sosa as the one who contacted first. When the young woman arrived at room 407 after 0:30 on Sunday, she met Sosa and three other soccer players, Braian Cuffre, Abiel Osorio y José Ignacio Florentín, with whom he shared alcoholic beverages, such as beer and fernet. The woman pointed out that after a few drinks started to feel bad, “very dizzy”and She lay down on one of the beds “as if she were asleep.”.

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It was then that “without any consent, they sexually abused her”, as stated in the text of the complaint that was made effective this Wednesday at police headquarters before the Crimes Against Persons Division. The woman mentioned that at 5:30, when she felt “a little better,” she managed to order a delivery via phone app and went to her home.

“His parents are totally shocked with this situation,” he said. Julio Rubino, a journalist from Tucumán who works with women. “There is film material and medical expertise. “It’s all in Justice,” warned the person in charge of the sports area of ​​LV12 Tucumán, in a talk with the program The biggest (AM 770). “I believe everything. She is not one to look for ulterior motives in anything. “She is not someone who wants to harm anyone,” she warned, while highlighting a gesture from the Buenos Aires club: “Vélez Sarsfield made himself available to the family. It marks the type of club it is.”

The explanation of the case, by Gustavo Carabajal

A few hours after the fact was revealed, Vélez left aside the four athletes involved. Through a statement, El Fortín reported that “given the seriousness of the complaint,” the Board of Directors decided to “preventively separate the professional staff, and within the framework of the protocol for action in cases of gender-based violenceto the aforementioned players: Sebastián Sosa, Braian Cufré, Abiel Osorio and José Ignacio Florentín.”

The Prosecutor’s Unit for Abuse Against Sexual Integrity No. 1 He ordered that the required examinations be carried out on the alleged victim, that the clothing that he had at the time of the episode be seized and that film extractions be made from the security cameras of the Hilton hotel, where the incident would have occurred.

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