08/20/2020 - 11:21
- Clarín.com
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The former partner of Ángel "Pato" Cabrera denounced the renowned golfer for gender violence several times, with whom he had a relationship for more than a year. Cecilia Torres Mana came, in February of this year, together with her lawyer Carlos Nayi, to ask to be accepted as a private complainant, to provide new information, to request police protection because Cabrera violated the restraining order and to report policemen who did not act on the day in the one that the golfer attacked her in Villa Allende. Today the golfer's situation is very delicate : on Saturday the Cordoba Justice requested his international arrest for the alleged violation of the restrictions imposed in two causes of gender violence against him.
In an interview with La Voz del Interior, Cecilia Torres Mana assured that he controlled her by phone and did not let her have any friendship or family relationship . "You are mine or nobody's," he says the golfer told him. She also accused Cabrera of threatening her and her entire family, on repeated occasions.
He says that, because of the threats, he could not separate . "When I was separated, he threatened me and I feared for the lives of my relatives. He said that I was his or nobody's. There was no way to get rid of it. Justice did not understand and they asked me why I continued. He is a person who breaks all limits and my family's life was in danger. "
The complaints run in the 2nd Crime Chamber. Miguel Gavier, the athlete's defense attorney, denies the facts of the accusation and speaks of harassment by Torres Mana.
But the woman assures that it is she who lived under threat and that the golfer was chasing her all the time. "I had in mind that I could be with someone else," she tells the Cordovan newspaper.
"He forbade me to see my brother Cristian (29) and since he met my family it was terrible, because he would not let me go see them. I could not see my mother who was dying of cancer, because she said that (in the Private Hospital ) I could meet someone else, "he recalls.
"He made video calls to me and had to show him who he was with and where he was," says the police noncommissioned officer who works as a radio operator. "No one could call me, not even my brother, and said that I did not have to see her because she could introduce me to a friend," she completes.
Among the threats that she assures that Cabrera made her, she maintains that he told her that "he had many police friends and they couldn't do anything to him."
Duck. Angel Cabrera won the top Argentine tournament three times. It was consecrated in 2001, 2002 and 2012.
She also related that there were beatings and that she had to be at his disposal all day. "If she was at home, she had to call him constantly so he could check if she was alone . Many times she did it while he was out with his friends."
According to Torres Mana, this violent situation was also repeated in his house. "If he was (in the living room) with his friends in a meeting, I had to be in the bedroom, without an internet connection."
"He has a very murky life, because of the people and the tastes with which he deals," he says, without going into detail. But she complains because she had to witness things that dishonored her: "She forced me to accept her other relationships," she says.
Cecilia also tells that Cabrera used "a bully" to control her. It was a friend of his, who told him if someone entered her house. "It was a nightmare because I was entering the gated community and there was no way to avoid it," she says.
The woman assures that the blows were frequent. And he recounted three very violent episodes that he claims to have lived with Cabrera: when he almost ran her over with his truck, the time his vehicle collided and one occasion in which he put a knife to his neck; also that once she shot her with a cell phone and many times she did it with the remote control.
Torres Mana points out that "when some family violence appeared on TV, it insulted me and women (in general)". "He said it was our fault" what happened with the femicides and gender complaints.
"There was a separation and he threatened me and my family again so that I would come back," says Cecilia, who ends up admitting that he did not think about her but did not want to have problems with her children (a 12-year-old girl and an 18-year-old boy). The woman sums up the situation: "Many times he repeated to me that it was his or it was nobody's."
On Friday, the golfer had to appear at the Public Prosecutor's Office but since he did not do so, Justice raided his house in the town of Villa Allende and the police personnel were informed by the caretaker that he was not in the country. On Saturday, the Córdoba Family Violence prosecutor, Cristian Griffi, ordered the international arrest of the golfer for alleged violation of the restrictions imposed in the case of gender violence initiated by Torres Mana.
Cabrera is currently in the United States, where this weekend he was playing the Bridgestone Senior Players in Akron, Ohio, in the United States. And, as it transpired, he would not have given notice of his departure from the country either, which would further complicate his judicial situation.
Miguel Alejandro Gavier, Cabrera's lawyer, dismissed all the complaints from his ex-partner and assured that his client is innocent . "There is a very serious harassment on the part of Torres Mana, causing him to react to Cabrera in his own home," the lawyer commented to the Voice of the Interior.
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