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The arrest of L-Gante for the crime of “illegitimate deprivation of liberty with the use of a weapon” added weighty evidence after the appearance of a video that was incorporated into the case and that would complicate the musician’s situation.
The filming is from the early hours of Saturday, May 27, at the exit of a nightclub in General Rodríguez, which the singer had attended with friends belonging to Cumbia 420. That group got into a fight with another from the area, in the that there was a municipal employee from the Bicentennial neighborhood.
The recording of a home security camera recorded the movements of that early morning. First, a man and a woman approach a patrol car. They talk for a few minutes and then disappear from the scene.
Seconds later, a white car in which L-Gante was riding arrives at the scene and gets on the sidewalk. They intercept the two people who had spoken with the Police and, immediately afterwards, a man gets into the vehicle through the rear right door.
The images end with the car accelerating at high speed. This is the moment in which one of the victims mentioned in the case was taken captive.
After a few blocks, in the Bicentennial neighborhood, the musician found and threatened the second victim into getting into his car. Those who were detained tried to get out of the vehicle, but the automatic locks were in place.
The singer was “uncontrolled and under the influence of drugs or alcohol,” investigators told Clarín.
According to the complaint, L-Gante took Gastón Torres under threat at gunpoint. That is why the musician is accused of “illegitimate deprivation of liberty aggravated by the use of firearms and simple threats”.
“They put him in a vehicle at gunpoint and drove him around for 45 minutes or an hour. Then they left him in a police station and released him,” said Leonardo Sigal, lawyer for the complainant and victim of the incident.
The journalistic guard at the door of the country of Banco Provincia, where L-Gante remained detained before being transferred. Photo: Martin Bonetto
When asked what the reason was, he said that “the motivation was because they live fighting with everyone, they go to the nightclubs and if someone looks at them, it bothers them.”
It was so that after a series of raids, L-Gante was arrested this Tuesday in the Banco Provincia country and transferred to the Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI) of Quilmes.
“I got in the car because I kill your wife and your children”
Those behind the case confirmed to Clarín one of the phrases launched by L-Gante in the midst of his rage: “I got in the car because I kill your wife and your children.”
“We have compelling evidence to stop him. And as far as we have information, he would not have the corresponding permit to carry a weapon,” said sources of the investigation.
They described that there were insults and shoving in the bowling alley but everything continued in the Bicentenario neighborhood of General Rodríguez, where Torres and another woman in her 50s live. The interdict was raising the temperature until a shot was heard and a neighbor made a call to 911.
The Police arrived in several patrol cars and identified those involved, but there were no arrests. At that moment, a young man from the 420 gang sent a message to L-Gante to tell him what had happened and ask for his help.
L-Gante was transferred to the Quilmes Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI). Photo: AFP
The singer went there, coming from a nightclub in Palermo. First he went straight to Torres’ house. “He arrived in his white BMW, completely out of control, out of his mind,” they described.
And in front of several witnesses, he repeated to Torres at the point of a gun that he drew through the car window: “I got in the car now and my friends better not end up in jail, because I’m killing your wife and your children.” underlines the source to Clarín.
Torres, who works in the Municipality of General Rodríguez, was at the door of his house when he saw the musician coming, who -until then- was not involved in the fight, and he was thinking of greeting him. “He never imagined that he would find himself in an extreme situation like the one he experienced. Of course he got into the car terrified.”
In the BMW that L-Ghent was driving there was another person in the passenger seat “also over the top”. The musician was the one who was driving and “to the screams he turned around pointing at the man and going at full speed.”
From there they went to look for the woman, involved in the initial fight. She also threatened her with a gun and in front of her daughter they made her get into the car.
As reported to this newspaper, it was possible to follow the route taken by the BMW of L-Ghent. He is seen driving with a cell phone and a gun. And he communicated with someone to whom he said: “Prepare me the fifth that I’ll bring you two packages to liquidate them.”
Those who were detained tried to get out of the car, but the automatic locks were in place. “Go and tell the police that my friends have nothing to do with it. If you don’t release my friends, you don’t tell them,” L-Gante repeated to them, despite the fact that his group had not been arrested.
It all culminated when a friend from L-Gante contacted him. So, he dropped them off at a service station, called a remis for them and gave them money to pay for the trip.
