Threats, deprivation of liberty and another complaint: what is known about the arrest of L-Gante

2023-06-07 02:40:00

Elian Angel Valenzuelaartistically known as L-Gante, was arrested this Tuesday following raiding four properties. He accuses him of illegal deprivation of liberty and coercive threats aggravated by the use of firearms. Images were released from a security camera that supports the municipal employee complaint with whom he argued at the exit of a bowling alley on Saturday, May 27.

Gaston Torresa neighbor of the L-Gante family, in the Bicentenario neighborhood of General Rodríguez, in the western suburbs, denounced that when leaving the nightclub there was an incident with several members of “La Mafilia”the group of friends and musicians to which L-Gante belongs and who, as a consequence, was attacked at his home.

L-Ghent was arrested this Tuesday, following 3:00 p.m.

members of the urban guard of Citizen Protection of the Municipality of General Rodríguez They arrived at the scene to separate and identify the attackers. According to the accusation, when the municipal guards had already withdrawn, L-Gante threatened and intimidated Torres with a firearm, forcing him to get into a caralong with another victim, at 8 in the morning.

In that episode, the artist would have even handled the cell phones of the municipal workers and would have threatened: “Get rid of my people or I’ll kill this one”, referring to Torres. There is also a version, provided by the complainant’s lawyer in which the artist threatened saying “Prepare the little field that we will kill this one”.

According to the lawyer, Leonardo Sigal“later he continues to walk him through General Rodríguez until they call him on the phone and he finds out that they had been released and he leaves him in a police station in the area.” Sigal also affirmed that the people were deprived of their liberty for 20 minutes. According to the images collected by a security camera, those close to L-Gante they would not have been detained by the urban guardfirst of all.

How L-Ghent was arrested

After the complaint, the prosecutor Alejandra Silvana Rodríguezin charge of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 9 of the Moreno-General Rodríguez Judicial Department, quickly received statements from the victims and witnesses to the events.

In addition, he requested the recordings of the security cameras of the General Rodríguez Operational Monitoring Center (COM), of private locations and of the toll booths in the area, and crossed and analyzed cell phone equipment, their ownership and the geolocation of antennas.

Consequently, the prosecution requested the arrest of Valenzuela before the Court of Guarantees 2, in charge of Judge Gabriel Castro, who validated the request and ordered four raidsone of them in sector 1 of the country of Club Banco Provincia, where he was finally arrested following 3:00 p.m. this Tuesday and will be investigated next Thursday.

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L-Ghent will be investigated this Thursday. PHOTO: Telam

What did L-Ghent’s lawyer say?

Alejandro Cipolla, a lawyer representing the musician, denounced that UFI 9 of General Rodríguez “should not have participated, they should have excused themselves, since from the same complaint of the victims they worked in the prosecutor’s office. Even said prosecutor’s office was denounced by Elián and by me in the first case, which were for injuries. He also said that he should intervene in the file “Any other prosecutor’s office, except this one that is vicious.”

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Alejandro Cipolla, L-Gante’s lawyer, stated that the prosecution “is vicious.” PHOTO: Telam

Likewise, Cipolla affirmed that the detention was not necessary, defined it as “exaggerated” and said that “it does not make sense”. He pointed out that L-Ghent was “handcuffed, lying on the floor”and was not allowed entry to get in touch with your client.

“What is the danger that L-Gante can do in front of 30 policemen to have him handcuffed from the first moment? And second, not letting his lawyer in? ”, Questioned Cipolla, who also evidenced that the police did not find the firearm in the raids.

The background of L-Ghent

L-Gante was arrested along with his ex-partner and mother of his daughter in February of 2022, charged with death threats and bodily harm once morest a young man with whom he had a dispute in General Rodríguez.

This case was investigated by the same prosecutor Rodríguez, who in her request for trial accused Valenzuela, Tamara Baez already Lourdes Medinamanager of the artist, for the crimes of “aggravated threats by the use of a firearm and minor injuries”.

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The lawyer stated that the firearm was not found in the raids. PHOTO: Telam

The young man pointed out that he never had problems with his neighbors, but the prosecutor Rodríguez charged the couple following the statements of at least five witnesses and the analysis of the footage where they were seen, along with another group of people, going to rebuke to a 21 year old. This boy denounced that on Saturday, February 5 L-Gante threatened to kill him and then fired a shot at the ground.

At the time, L-Gante and Tamara Báez refused to testify when questioned by the head of UFI 9. “I don’t know what weapon they are talking regardingThey found a toy gun on my mother,” the musician himself assured the press at the end of that investigation, who maintained that it was all “a farce” and that those who testified once morest him “lie.”

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The musician L-Ghent.

At the same time, This Monday it was requested that the musician go to trial for the crime of “damage in real competition with threats” a woman named Daniela Rocío Vicente. The complaint indicates alleged threats once morest the woman and the alleged damage caused to her gray Toyota RAV vehicle, following a traffic dispute in December of 2021when it was on Route 5, also in the General Rodríguez district.

The requirement for submission to trial – to which he had access telam– It also has as defendants the ex-partner of L-Gante, Tamara Báez, and Luis Martín Ibáñez, although they are only accused of damages “various scratches and dents”.

Also, L-Gante is credited with having intimidated Vicente, whom he would have threatened by saying “you’re already marked, son of a bitch. I’m going to grab you, I’m going to find you,” according to prosecutor Leandro Ventricelli, head of the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 1 of Moreno.

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