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The cumbia 420 singer received another setback from the Mercedes Appeals Chamber.
The musician Elián Ángel Valenzuela, better known as L-Gante, will continue to be detained, after the Mercedes Appeals Chamber revoked today the resolution of a judge that had granted him house arrest with monitoring by an electronic anklet.
The decision was adopted by Chamber I of the Chamber of Appeals of Mercedes, in a resolution in which it considers that “procedural dangers” still persist to benefit the referent of cumbia 420 with a moderation of his preventive detention, since “he is accused of conduct that objectively presents extremely burdensome characteristics.”
The musician, who has been detained since June 6 for illegal deprivation of liberty and threats that occurred last May in General Rodríguez’s party, had received another judicial setback on July 11, when the Mercedes Appeals Chamber revoked a ruling that benefited him with extraordinary release.
Hours later, the guarantee judge Gabriel Castro granted a request from the private defense and granted him house arrest with electronic monitoring, although he ordered that this measure become effective only when the ruling was finalized in the Mercedes Appeals Chamber, as happened with the extraordinary release.
In recent weeks, L-Gante was charged with a new crime, that of “aggravated concealment”. It is an Iphone 12, according to the prosecution, which had been reported to ENACOM on March 24, 2021.
It was after investigators tried to access the mobile device that they found it on a blacklist. By the serial number they reached the owner who was summoned to testify and confirmed that it had been stolen on March 23 of that year in the City of Buenos Aires. On the advice of his lawyer, Juan Pablo Merlo, L-Gante refused to testify and was transferred back to the DDI in Quilmes.
The complaint that led to the singer’s arrest was made on May 27 by David 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 day, when leaving the “Río” dance venue 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.
When Torres left the club to go home, he began to receive threats from the singer and, after that, members of that same group went to his house and physically assaulted both him and his family, according to the complaint.
Then, a white BMW drove by L-Gante passed by, who lowered the glass, pointed a gun at him and made him get into the car, the complainant added.
A few meters away, the young Rosa Catalina Passi, also a neighbor of the musician and 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.
After that, some members of “La Mafilia” were delayed by the Police and L-Gante returned to where the cell phone was, lowered the glass and told the agents: ‘Get out of the kids or I’ll kill this one'”, referring to the victim who was held inside his BMW.
According to the judicial proceedings, Torres 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 and he released the victims.
With the evidence gathered, the prosecutor’s office requested the arrest of the singer from Judge Castro, who validated the request and ordered four raids on June 6, one of them in sector 1 of the Club Banco Provincia country club, where the musician was finally arrested.
In the proceedings, the BMW car was seized; four replica firearms, five iPhone cell phones and 40 grams of marijuana.
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