2023-09-14 02:21:35
L-Gante, who spent almost 100 days in prison for alleged threats and illegal deprivation of liberty, He assured this afternoon that while he was detained he felt “very calm” and “at no time depressed,” while pointing out that the other prisoners received him “well” and “with respect.”
In a press conference held this afternoon, in a bar in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, together with his lawyer Diego Storto and his representative Maxi El Brother, The singer said that starting on “day 40” of detention, he stopped giving importance to the passing of “the hours.”
“It was a whole process that had to be serious and work well because it was at stake for something that I truly did not feel guilty about within me. My freedom was at stake,” said Valenzuela in relation to the replacement of his original defense attorney, Alejandro Cipolla, with Storto.
“Something that I want to continue highlighting is that I was very calm, at no time was I depressed,” L-Gante told about his almost 100 days in detention. On the other hand, he reported that he was “very well received” and treated “with respect” by “the other prisoners.”
He was released after being detained for 100 days
Last Friday night, L-Gante was released from the dungeons of the Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI) Quilmes where he had been housed since last June 6, after the judge of Guarantees 2 of Moreno-General Rodríguez , Gabriel Castro, ordered the cessation of preventive detention.
The magistrate took into account the testimony of four new eyewitnesses of the alleged illegitimate deprivation of liberty that the cumbia singer 420 took place last May in the Buenos Aires town of General Rodríguez, which led to a “reevaluation” of the evidence that existed in the file and its release by the “benefit of the doubt”.
The freedom was appealed by the prosecutor and the victim’s lawyer
The Prosecutor’s Office, the presentation maintains that “from a questionable logic, “it was omitted to review all the evidence of the case for its correct merit and correlation, violating the legal regime for evaluating the evidence to which it had to be submitted in order to give a jurisdictionally valid answer.” And the prosecutor expressed that “it seems indispensable” the arrest of the artist.
Raúl Villalba clarified that it is not only the neighbor Gastón Torres but also the neighbor named Passi, who was detained in the same vehicle and assured “that she was afraid to get out of the car.”
The Mercedes Chamber will be responsible for defining the procedural future of Elián Valenzuela: if it keeps him free or if it requests that he return to prison.
Lawyers Leonardo Sigal and Pablo, representing Darío Gastón Torres, one of the complaining neighbors of L-Gante, who requested that the Mercedes Court of Appeals and Guarantees revoke Judge Castro’s resolution.
“The defense requested a change in qualification with release, but the Guarantee Judge adopted the ex officio feasibility of dictating the cessation of the coercive measure (…) without even going into contemplating a single procedural risk,” says the submitted document. by the representatives of the injured individual, to whom Télam had access.
What is L-Gante accused of?
The morning of that day, at the exit of the dance club “Río” located in that town, there was an incident with several young members of the so-called “La Mafilia”, the group of friends and musicians to which L-Gante belongs.
According to Torres, when he leaves the bowling alley to go home, He began to receive threats from Valenzuela and after that, members of La Mafilia went to his house and physically attacked him and his family.
Then, always according to his complaint, a white BMW driven by Valenzuela passed by, lowered the window, pointed a gun at him and forced him into the car.
A few meters later, the young Rosa Catalina Passi was also intercepted and forced to get on the same vehicle.also a neighbor of the musician and who had participated in the first discussion with the friends of L-Ghent.
Later, and always according to the complaint, some members of “La Mafilia” were detained by the Police and L-Gante returned to where the cell phone was, lowered the glass and told the agents: “Get rid of the kids or I’ll kill this one,” referring to the victim who was held inside his BMW.
Torres supposedly remained captive for 23 minutes until L-Gante He received a call in which they assured him that his friends had been released by the Police and he released the victims.
With the evidence gathered, the prosecution requested Valenzuela’s arrest from Judge Castro, who validated the request and He ordered four raids on June 6, one of them in sector 1 of the country club of the Banco Provincia Club, where the musician was finally arrested.
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