The Colombian soccer player
Sebastián Villa (26)
attended this Tuesday the second hearing of the trial that takes place in the Lomas de Zamora Courts, where his ex-partner accuses him of
gender violence
.
The first witness called to testify is Mónica Juárez, a social worker at the Esteban Echeverría Women's Police Station, the jurisdiction where the complaint against the Boca Juniors striker was filed.
Accompanied by his lawyer, Martín Apolo, and some relatives, Villa arrived at 10:30 a.m. and remained serious.
Villa, with his lawyer Martín Apolo.
Photo Maxi Failla.
Tonight, at 9:00 p.m., Boca will receive Deportivo Pereira from Colombia at La Bombonera, for the Copa Libertadores de América.
On Monday, at the beginning of the oral trial for threats and injuries by Claudia Dávalos, Correctional Court 2 of Lomas de Zamora, the soccer player heard the testimony of his complainant, Daniela Cortés, who testified via Zoom from Colombia, where she currently lives .
According to the woman, the attacks occurred in April 2020 at the house they shared in a driveway in Canning.
Cortés pointed out that the relationship problems began when the soccer player was hired by Boca and arrived in Argentina in 2018, since at that time "he
began to drink alcohol and became violent, more and more every day
."
The debate is in charge of Judge Claudia Dávalos.
Photo Maxi Failla.
According to his story, which was permanently denied by Villa with head shakes, the footballer's shoving "was common from the beginning of the relationship", but he did not see it "as something bad".
Cortés explained to Judge Dávalos that the worst moment was when the quarantine decreed by the Government due to the coronavirus pandemic occurred, because Villa "drank" alcoholic beverages and "assaulted" her and that "whole days went by that she could not speak" with his mother via video call "because of the blows he had on his face".
Regarding the day of the attack -April 27, 2020-, which was first publicly denounced by social networks and, later, before the Lomas de Zamora Justice, the woman explained that it all started the night before with a discussion in which she He suggested that
the relationship "was not enough",
so a dispute began over who would stay in the house where they lived and who would go to another apartment.
At that moment, according to Cortés, the Boca striker called her mother and sister and, when she hung up the phone, began to hit her.
"He hits me on the forehead, he kicks me in the stomach, in the leg, in the thigh," he said in his account during the debate, while Villa
shook his head
.
She added that, after the attack, she was left "alone in the house for two and a half months" until she was able to return to Colombia, and stated that, although in Argentina up to that moment she had not filed a complaint, in her native country there had been. denounced the soccer player for gender violence.
"After he left, I talked to my parents and that's when I decided to make a public complaint, because
I feared for my family and my daughter
. At that time I published previous photos. In the text (of his publication on social networks) I clarified that I was doing it because I couldn't take it anymore, one more blow or one less blow was part of the landscape," he said.
Villa is being tried for the crimes of "
minor injuries aggravated by the bond and for mediating gender violence and coercive threats
."
Daniela Cortés declared on Monday from Colombia.
In this case, a Correctional Court of the province of Buenos Aires intervenes because it is a crime that provides for a penalty of up to six years in prison.
The reported events occurred on April 27, 2020 in the house shared by Villa and his ex in the private Saint Thomas neighborhood of Canning, which were investigated by the decentralized Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 3 of Esteban Echeverría, specialized in Gender violence.
In the video published by the victim, images of the visibly beaten woman were observed, while the complainant recounted violent events experienced next to the soccer player, whom she described as "an abuser, both physically and psychologically."
After that episode, the soccer player moved to the country Venado II, also in Canning, where the second episode of gender violence allegedly took place, for which he was denounced in June 2021 for "sexual abuse
.
"
The Boca forward would be in tonight's game against Deportivo Pereira.
Photo ALEJANDRO PAGNI / AFP
This second fact was denounced by a 26-year-old girl on May 13, 2022 before the same prosecutor who, although she requested Villa's immediate arrest, Lomas de Zamora Guarantee Judge Javier Maffucci Moore rejected the claim and suggested further investigation. investigation.
After being investigated for the crime of "
sexual abuse with carnal access
" -which provides for up to 15 years in prison-, between October and November Villa also submitted to psychological expertise that, according to his defense attorney, revealed that the striker "He does not present features compatible with the fact that is imputed to him."
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