Four footballers from Velez Sarsfield (1st Argentine division) accused of sexual assault were placed in police custody for 48 hours at the request of the prosecutor’s office, which requested their preventive detention, according to the victim’s lawyer.
Uruguayan internationals Sebastián Sosa, 37 years old (1 selection) and Paraguayan José Florentin, 27 years old (3 selections), and Argentines Braian Cufré, 27 years old, and Abiel Osorio, 21 years old, are not in the Buenos Aires club. As soon as the case became known in early March, they were detained while waiting for a judge to rule on their temporary detention while the investigation into the case took place.
The complainant, a 24-year-old sports journalist, said he was attacked on March 3 in a hotel room in Tucumán (north), where he was invited by Sebastián Sosa, who was staying at the establishment with others three more players ..
“After a few drinks she began to pass out, dizzy, so she laid down on one of the beds as if she was numb, and that’s when, without any consent, she was sexually assaulted,” the report wrote.
According to his lawyer, Patricia Neme, the justice system has “sufficient elements” to justify preventive detention, where the accused has, according to her, “sufficient economic means” to flee the country.
He added in an interview broadcast on television that the more than three-hour hearing before the Tucumán prosecutor had been difficult for his client: “Sometimes he collapsed because he had to remember the whole sequence of events that he experienced.” “Lawyer talks about an aberrant ‘gang bang’.”
The Vélez Sarsfield club announced on Monday in a press release the suspension of the contracts of four players and “reiterated its greatest concern about the reported facts that are clearly contrary to the principles and values of our institution.” According to the newspaper Clarín, the results of the toxicological analysis to determine if the victim was drugged should not be known for twenty days.
Source: La Verdad
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