This Friday morning, expectations were very high at the Monte Grande Courts as Renee Legrand, the doctor who will give her testimony in connection with the complaint faced by Boca footballer, Sebastián Villa, for crimes of abuse, had to appear there. attack and attempted murder, in connection with an episode that occurred in June 2021.

However, the gynecologist at Penna Hospital who would treat and verify the woman’s injuries nearly a year ago was not at the hearing due to a health problem.

This was explained by Roberto Castillo, lawyer for R., the Colombian plaintiff, at the exit of the courts.

“Now we’re here to listen to the doctor’s testimony, which is important for this investigation, and refers to being on a trip and feeling unwell to connect to a video call,” Castillo said.

And he added: “I don’t know what will happen, hopefully in the next few hours I can testify.”

The idea of ​​the lawyer is to wait a few hours to be treated by the health doctor to make a video call. The alternative is that the professional statement will end up being given at some point over the weekend.

“I asked the prosecutor to wait a few hours for him to recover. We will make a video call, we will connect all the lawyers and we will listen to their testimonies, ”Castillo proposed.

And then he insisted: “What we are learning in the Prosecutor’s Office is that if the doctor cannot testify today, he should do so tomorrow. And if he can’t do it tomorrow, let him do it on Sunday. “

The doctor’s testimony is very important to clarify the fact under investigation, where “he has a public charge of coming to testify,” the lawyer reviews.

However, with a bit of discomfort, he said: “Now, he said he was on a trip, so he couldn’t go, and that in turn made him feel bad about connecting. We appeal to believe the doctor’s testimony. , because we do not believe.is there why not believe?

“In clinical history, the doctor found that the victim presented with injuries and what she did was sign a diagnosis to give her medication so that she improve,” Castillo, a lawyer for the woman who denounces Villa, closed.

Villa, charged

On Thursday 19, the Colombian soccer player from Boca Sebastián Villa was notified of his imputation in the case investigating him for sexual abuse of a maiden The event would have taken place in June last year at her home in a country house in Buenos Aires province of Canning.

Judicial sources assured Télam that the prosecutor Vanessa Gonzalezwho manages the Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 3 Specialized in Family and Gender Violence, Sexual Abuse and Crimes Related to Trafficking in Persons of Lomas de Zamora, informed Villa of his rights as an accused in the crime of “aggravated sexual abuse with carnal access”but does not include “attempted murder”.

According to investigators, Villa’s defense accepted the allegation and assigned an expert witness to participate in the psychological and psychiatric examination that will be conducted on the victim in the next few days.

Villa’s lawyer, Martín Apolo, asked Lomas de Zamora’s Guarantees 2 judge Javier Maffucci Moore for exemption from his client’s prison, but the magistrate only noticed the request and did not decide whether it would take place or not. hindi. , because he thought the proposal was premature.

At this point, attorney Roberto Castillo, representing the plaintiff, assured that with the evidence provided so far, Villa “should be called to make an investigative statement” and “it would not be unreasonable” for him to put in preventive detention. because of the risk that procedural law exists if he remains at liberty.