The Vélez players have finished testifying in the prosecutor’s office and it is decided whether they will be detained pending trial

The four players of Velez arrested in Tucumán accused of sexual abuse They declared this on Wednesday at the prosecutor’s office and a decision will be made on Wednesday whether they will be detained pending trial or whether they will be released. Now the judge has asked for a recess. Sebastián Sosa, Juan Florentín, Abiel Osorio and Braian Cufré They testified for almost two hours before the judge Eliana Gómez Moreira.

Sosa was surrounded by three police officers and away from his three colleagues since this Tuesday, when they were transferred to the former Investigative Brigade, he argued with Florentín and they even grabbed each other by the neck, but the situation did not degenerate because they the police intervened. safety.

The Vélez players (the club has decided to suspend the players’ contracts) spent the night as “arrested” awaiting this afternoon’s hearing, which took place behind closed doors and the press was prevented from entering.

The players’ statements are not yet known, however this has emerged They denied having committed the abuses for which they had been reported. At the same time, judge Eliana Gómez Moreira, who prevented the presence of the press at the hearing, rejected the defenders’ request to declare the arrest illegal.

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.

Before the public prosecutor Eugenia María Posse, representing the Public Ministry, ordered their arrest, the players 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.