The young detainee spoke with Covid in Ezeiza: 'It's all a lie, I feel very bad, let my lawyer speak'

Natasha Niebieskikwiat

05/03/2021 12:20

• Clarín.com

• Society

Updated 05/03/2021 21:09

With a low voice and a suspicious tone, Santiago Solans Portillo answered a telephone call from

Clarín

this Monday morning to the

sanitary hotel on Libertad Street at 1000.

At that hotel in Barrio Norte, the young man has been quarantined for positive Covid since Sunday.

But he is also detained and may face charges under article 202 of the penal code, which stipulates between

 3 to 15 years in prison for anyone who spreads a contagious disease. 

"I am not going to give statements without my lawyer. ... Everything you put in the note is a lie,"

29-year-old Santiago

told

Clarín

on Monday

, without wanting to explain what would be a lie and what truth, until he says so your defender.

During the brief exchange, he stated that he felt "very bad", that he

continues to have a fever, but that he has medical assistance at the sanitary hotel,

one of those that the government of the City of Buenos Aires has arranged for patients who come from abroad. and they must quarantine.

Santiago said that his lawyer was going to communicate, but in the office of Federico Villena, head of the federal court of First Instance in Criminal and Correctional Matters No. 1 of Lomas de Zamora, they indicated that the young man

had not presented a legal representative

until this morning 

in the tribunals.

Santiago has been charged since this Sunday after being arrested in Ezeiza when he arrived from a flight from Miami.

On flight AA931.

He said that he had gone to the United States to vaccinate, which is all the rage among Argentines who can do so in the absence of a mass vaccination plan in Argentina.

In Miami, for example, they 

are vaccinating non-resident foreigners at beaches and pharmacies.

On Sunday, the National Migration Directorate detected with its thermal cameras that he had

38.5 degrees of fever

and when the Airport Security Police intervened, they accused him of not having presented the mandatory negative PCR in the sworn declaration of entry into the country.

The moment in which the fever is detected in the Argentine who did not report that he had coronavirus before returning from Miami.

It is a matter of clarifying if what he attached is a certificate that said

that he did not have symptoms compatible with the disease

, when it was found that he had them before flying and when he arrived in Ezeiza.

All his documentation commits him, according to the official information obtained this Sunday by

Clarín

from the National Director of Migration, Florencia Carignano and from the PSA.

They also accuse him of "resisting" and "lying" to the authorities, which should be verified later by Judge Villena.

In addition, different investigations have now been initiated. On the one hand,

what employee of American Airlines - the airline with which he traveled - let him pass

on the flight that left on Saturday, May 1 from Miami at 8:45 p.m., without a corresponding online form of his affidavit. A negative PCR must be hung on it to be allowed to travel. And the one in Santiago, at 5.15pm, had tested positive at the Nomy Health institute in Salt Lake City.

This Monday in Migrations they pointed out that Santiago

had not presented a certificate of medical discharge

in the affidavit, which passengers who traveling abroad are infected with the disease caused by the new coronavirus must do.

He showed a document that said he had no symptoms, which reversed the thermal camera in Ezeiza, where Migrations tightened controls.

The accused of hiding that he had Covid, escorted by health security personnel at the Ezeiza airport.

The medical certificate that

Clarín

could see

is from a clinic called Doctors Now, in Hollywood Florida, which assured that he had no suspicious symptoms of Covid.

Another issue is that an

investigation

had to be started

to see if the passengers who boarded the same flight with him, more than 200, could have been infected.

That could worsen your legal situation if proven.

But it is not said what the fate of the young man will be once he completes his quarantine.

I could still be detained. 

Santiago Solans Portillo appeared until this Sunday on Linkedin as "co-founder" of a company called Smartkleanings SA, as received from the University of Business Sciences.

And as a resident in the province of Buenos Aires.

But this Monday, his networks appeared discharged, while insults towards his person multiplied, about an attitude that should actually validate or not Justice.

Meanwhile, the authorities had to search for the closest contacts that could have been with Solans Portillo during American Airlines flight 931, which covered the Miami-Buenos Aires route between the night of Saturday May 1 and Sunday 2. At least 14 passengers were in the sights of Salud.

Those 14 passengers are the only ones located so far by the Ministry of Health of the City of Buenos Aires, after Salud de la Nación alerted who they could be, due to the data that Transport in turn sent with the data of the Airlines and Migrations

From the portfolio of Fernán Quirós, they indicated to Clarín that the 14 passengers who, according to the Nation, could have been in contact with Solans Portillo were contacts.

Most were Argentines who had gone to Miami to vaccinate and according to reports, none are with COVID symptoms and must serve at least seven days of mandatory isolation at their homes.

It is still unknown if there are other passengers who could have come into contact with the young man, since the investigation is open.

And this Wednesday it will be expanded by Villena.

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