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When his lawyer arrived, L-Gante was shivering. They immediately requested medical assistance and diagnosed a flu-like condition. This Wednesday he hoped that the judge of Guarantees No. 2, Gabriel Castro, would grant him freedom. It was not so. The “cumbia 420” singer will remain in prison accused of “illegitimate deprivation of liberty” and “threats.”
The decision was adopted by Judge Castro, so Elián Ángel Valenzuela (23) will remain housed in cell 4 of the Departmental Directorate of Investigations (DDI) of Quilmes.
He has been in prison there for a week. They took him to the south of Greater Buenos Aires a little to guarantee the conditions of detention and that he is isolated in one of the few places in the Province where he could have a separate space from the rest of the prisoners. And another bit, to get him out of the epicenter of his followers in the west and avoid riots.
The request for the disqualification of the prosecutor Raúl Villalba presented by Alejandro Cipolla, L-Gante’s lawyer, who considered that “he can no longer participate in this file because there is no longer impartiality, there is persecution”, which still remains pending. Judge Castro was not resolved, according to judicial sources informed Télam.
This Tuesday afternoon it was learned that staff from the Quilmes hospital had assisted the “cumbia 420” singer in his place of detention and diagnosed him with flu symptoms. “They are going to control it from time to time, it must be some kind of virus. For now they are not going to transfer it, unless its medical condition worsens,” Cipolla had said.
L-Gante is still a prisoner in the DDI of Quilmes. (Photo by Alejandro PAGNI / AFP)
Cipolla had requested a hearing with the Judge of Guarantees to resolve his situation.
“I requested an urgent hearing in court so that Elián could come today and his freedom be resolved,” the singer’s lawyer told Clarín.
Among the arguments of the defender, in addition to the state of health, is the expiration of the procedural times. “The deadlines have expired, which can lead to an illegal detention. According to article 147 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Province of Buenos Aires, the prosecutor has 24 hours to resolve the request to cease detention and the judge too,” he confirmed. .
Prosecutor Raúl Villalba, in charge of Prosecutor No. 9 of the Moreno-General Rodríguez Judicial Department, rejected the request for the artist’s release.
The defense presented a video that, as justified, had been incorporated into the file by the complainants, in which Gastón Torres is seen getting into Valenzuela’s white BMW by his own means.
For the prosecutor, “the place, the origin, or the time where the victim is supposedly observed getting into the singer’s car spontaneously cannot be proven” and for this reason he refused to release him.
According to the prosecutor’s opinion, L-Gante must remain detained as the author of the crime of “illegitimate deprivation of liberty, in an ideal contest with coercive threats aggravated by the use of weapons and for being perpetuated against a member of public power”; “illegitimate deprivation of freedom in an ideal contest with coercive threats aggravated by the use of a weapon”; and “simple possession of narcotics as an author”.
Cipolla confirmed to this newspaper that “if they do not resolve” during the day, he will request “a habeas corpus in the federal court outside the jurisdiction of Moreno.”
The complaint
The complaint that led to the arrest of L-Gante was made on May 27 by Gastón Torres, a neighbor of the Valenzuela family, who lives in the Bicentenario neighborhood of General Rodríguez, in the western suburbs.
On the morning of that Saturday the 27th and when leaving the “Río” dance venue, there was an incident with several young members of the so-called “La Mafilia”, the group of friends to which L-Gante belongs.
When Torres left the club to go home, he began to receive threats from Valenzuela: “You messed with La Mafilia, you messed with 420, you’ll see what will happen to you,” he told him, according to said the complainant’s lawyer, Leonardo Sigal.
Always according to the complaint, members of that same group went to the complainant’s house and physically assaulted both him and his family.
How is the artist framed? According to the complaint, Valenzuela arrived in his white BMW, rolled down the glass, pointed a gun at him, and forced Torres into the car.
After the threat, Torres agreed, and a few meters away, a young woman, a neighbor of the singer, who had participated in the first discussion with L-Gante’s friends, was also intercepted and forced to get on the same vehicle, according to the complaint.
Then, and always according to the statements of the complainant lawyer, some members of “La Mafilia” were delayed by the Police and L-Gante returned to where the patrol car was, lowered the window and told the agents: ‘Get rid of the kids or this one. I’ll kill you,'” referring to the victim who was being held inside his BMW.
At that moment, according to the presentation, the cumbia 420 singer called another person whom he identifies with a nickname and told him: “Prepare the field for me that we will kill this parsley there.”
The complainant remained captive for 23 minutes, until L-Gante received a call in which they assured him that his friends had been released by the Police. There he let the victims go.
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