Prisoners or released?: the arguments for the decisive hearing of the four Vélez players accused of sexual abuse in Tucumán

The hearing in which the fate of the four Vélez players accused of sexual abuse in Tucumán will be decided (Sebastiano Sosa, José Fiorentino, Brian Cufre AND Abiel Osorio) will take place this Wednesday starting at 1:30 pm, as reported by this province’s Office of Hearing Management (OGA). Furthermore, it has been confirmed that he will be the judge who will intervene in the file Eliana Gomez Moreira. Given this, What could happen to the players?

After the victims’ statements to the Gesell Chamber released last Monday, they were all arrested. What is now expected is that the complaint will require precautionary measures of the highest intensity. “We will ask for preventive detention”he explained during this Tuesday Andres Roblesone of the lawyers of the 24-year-old girl who filed the complaint on March 6th.

In front of the prosecutor Eugenia Maria Posse, representative of the Public Prosecutor, ordered their arrests, the footballers handed over their cell phones and agreed to have a sample taken for future genetic comparison. They also handed over their passports as a guarantee that they would not leave the country. The results of these tests will take several weeks. In the case of telephones, the prosecutor must request an appointment for the experts of the Scientific Tax Investigation Team to analyze their contents. This job normally lasts 30 to 45 days.

Additionally, Sosa, Florentín, Cufré and Osorio received one oral swab for DNA testing. This biological material will be compared with that seized since the beginning of the investigations. As indicated in the protocol and despite the time that had passed, samples were also taken from the victim.

During Wednesday’s hearing, prosecutor Posse will have to present his theory of the case, point out the evidence at his disposal to charge them with the crimes and ask for the court to be opened. preventive prison. The complainant (who requests it) will have to play the same role in order for them to continue to be detained.

The defenders of the four players, however, continue to develop the strategy to change the procedural fate of the case. “We didn’t rule out arrest, now another phase begins,” one of them said. It is in favor of the athletes who have agreed to undergo all the tests they have been subjected to, a clear sign that they will not hinder the investigations. But they have a downside: They have no roots in the province and do not have the financial resources to escape.

The crime, according to experts, is very serious because it involves sexual abuse aggravated by the plurality of people involved. When two or more people participate, the figure expands and makes it The minimum sentence is set at eight years and the maximum at 20. As for what will happen on Wednesday, Justice could generate a sort of provisional freedom, at least until the final sentence, but everything will depend on what the judge decides.

As for the situation of the four players, Sosa’s case is different, but no less serious. Although in his story the victim stated that the goalkeeper did not actively participate in the sexual abuse, it was he who called the meeting in the Vélez concentration hotel, a few hours after the match against Atlético Tucumán, to the Professional League Cup. And as for the rest of those involved, due to the injuries sustained by the victim, the issue is even more complicated…