From Alvear to the sectional. A Brazilian tourist beat up an employee of the luxurious Buenos Aires hotel and ended up in prisonBy Gabriel Di Nicola

The two Brazilian tourists went down to the ground floor of the Alvear Palace Hotel, in Recoleta. In a visible nervous statethey asked the food and beverage manager and a waiter at the bar at the lobby to accompany them to their room on the second floor. When the two employees entered the room, they noticed that a guest was hitting Gustavo, a hotel colleague, in the face and head.. It was at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. And it all ended with the aggressor, a civil engineer and businessman dedicated to real estatea native of Brazil and 52 years old, imprisoned in a City Police station, accused of minor injuriesand with the victim attended to by a “skull trauma with loss of consciousness, without bleeding wound”.

Qualified sources with access to the file informed THE NATION that the accused, identified only by his initials (LF of OG)was detained for 24 hours and is now defended by lawyer Andrés Gramajo.

The employee beaten by a guest of the Alvear Palace Hotel

In the case, the tax assistant Malena Mercurialifrom the East Flagrancy Unit of the City’s Public Prosecutor’s Office.

When he testified before City Police personnel, the victim, Gustavo Albarenga, said he has worked at the Alvear Palace Hotel for 20 years. When recounting the attack, the employee recalled that when he was checking the contents of the refrigerator in room 210 to replenish it, he received a surprise kick in the face. He claimed to have been stunned for a few minutes, not knowing exactly what was happening.. Albarenga declared that the aggressor also hit him several times. “I lost consciousness”held.

“When I recovered, I had the attacker on top of me. “He grabbed me by the neck.”, added the victim, as can be seen from his statement made at Neighborhood Police Station 2A of the City Police. The attack ended when the manager and the waiter arrived, who, after a struggle, managed to calm the situation.

Release and counterclaim

The businessman and his wife were in the city of Buenos Aires as tourists and were staying in a room on the second floor of the luxurious Buenos Aires hotel. The accused provided a very different version of the origin of the event. He said that on Friday, in the afternoon, when he was at the lobby from the hotel, he received a message from his wife telling him that There was a stranger in the room who was checking the suitcases.

Then, according to the defendant, he went up to the second floor and when he asked his wife who had checked the suitcases, his wife pointed out Albarenga, who was just entering room 210 to replace the missing items in the minibar; Another couple of Brazilian guests was staying in that room.

After being released, the civil engineer filed a complaint against Albarenga with the City Police, where he said that, together with his wife, they had stayed at the Alvear Palace Hotel last Friday and that they were going to stay until yesterday, Tuesday the 13th. .

“Last Friday, at 7:30 p.m., when my wife was sleeping in the room, the employee Albarenga entered and searched the suitcases without permission.“, held. When the City Police personnel who took the report asked him if he was missing any belongings, the civil engineer responded that he did not know.

According to sources with access to the file, to continue the process in freedom, From O.G. –who has already returned to Brazil– they imposed on him compliance with a series of measures, such as the obligation to appear at the prosecutor’s office every 45 days. At the hearing, Gramajo, representing the engineer, ensured the appearance of his assistant.

In response to the query of THE NATION from the Alvear Palace Hotel preferred not to make statements.

Gabriel Di Nicola

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