08/31/2021 4:48 PM
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Updated 08/31/2021 4:48 PM
He was, without a doubt, one of the most famous faces of 2014 and the
subject of multiple memes
over time.
Gastón Aguirre
, the motorcycle jet who assaulted a Canadian tourist in La Boca, has now
been arrested for hitting his partner
.
In August 2014, the thief had been filmed while armed robbery of Alexander Hennessy, a Canadian tourist who was traveling on a bicycle.
The victim recorded everything with a camera that he had in his helmet and
published the video on YouTube
, where he had millions of reproductions.
Aguirre, nicknamed "Rabbit", returned to the news in the last hours.
This time, accused of a case of
gender violence
.
According to police sources, on August 1 Aguirre was walking down the street with his partner, who greeted an ex-boyfriend who was passing by.
At that moment the motochorro began to hit the woman.
They arrest the motochorro who was recorded while assaulting a tourist in La Boca for gender violence.
The victim went to the South Family Protection area, where they received the complaint and gave intervention to the Criminal, Misconduct and Misdemeanor Prosecutor's Office, 34 who decided to
verify the aggressor's address
.
Once the man's address was confirmed, the Criminal, Misconduct and Misdemeanor Court 25, ordered the search in Carbonari in 1700 by the Brigade of the Communal Police Station 4 of the City Police.
Aguirre was arrested there.
Filmed robbery
The robbery for which Aguirre made the news occurred on August 13, 2014. After the images of the assault were broadcast, he toured television channels to give his version of the events.
In different interviews, the thief argued that this attempt to rob Canadian tourist Alex Hennessy was intended to
"buy a gift" for his son
for his birthday.
“I was bad with my family and the next day it was my son's birthday.
My idea was to go see him with money, so that the mother would say: 'well, at least he came to see him, to celebrate his birthday' ... I tried to do that ”, explained the thief.
“I did not go out to kill anyone.
I never hurt anyone.
The two times that I went out to commit a crime, I went out with a weapon.
But I took the gun to steal, that's why I took it, "he excused himself.
The Canadian tourist filmed the entire sequence with a camera on his helmet, as he was going down Irala Street when the 33-year-old assailant crossed him on his motorcycle.
The images traveled the world.
In September 2015, Aguirre was again detained by members of the Metropolitan Police.
They arrested him while he was driving with a minor carrying knives and drugs.
Aguirre was involved in several court cases.
In December 2014 last year he was sentenced by the Lomas de Zamora Correctional Justice, through the mechanism of "abbreviated trial", for simple possession of narcotics, to two months in prison for effective compliance.
In a third case, Aguirre was released from prison and "without merit" for the riots that occurred in La Boca during a protest for the crime of a 16-year-old teenager.
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