They suspended the trial of Sebastián Villa for gender violence against his former partner

The start of the trial against Sebastián Villa was suspended, which was scheduled to take place between September 19 and 21, within the framework of the case initiated by his former partner, Daniela Cortés, for injuries and threats suffered in April 2020 in the house they shared in the Buenos Aires town of Canning.La measure was adopted by the Correctional Court 2 of Lomas de Zamora, in charge of Claudia Dávalos, who agreed to a request from the footballer’s defense lawyer, Martín Apolo, and ordered that the complainant undergo a new psychological expertise. In this way, the oral debate, whose hearings were to take place next week, between September 19 and 21, was suspended pending the outcome of the expert report. Villa arrived at the trial accused of the crime of “minor injuries aggravated by the link and for mediating gender violence and coercive threats” against Cortés.It should be remembered that the Colombian striker, who remains at large, was criminally denounced in April 2020 by his former partner, who disseminated images through social networks. The complainant Fernando Burlando then explained that the woman filed the complaint with the prosecutor’s office of Esteban Echeverría number 3 specialized in Gender Violence, in charge of Vanesa González and her deputy Verónica Pérez, in which he was accused of “threats, gender violence and injuries and a restriction of approach was requested.” Cortés released a video with images of her visibly beaten and also recounted violent events lived next to the footballer, whom she described as “an abuser, both physically and psychologically.” In June 2021, the Criminal Chamber of Lomas de Zamora confirmed the elevation to trial of that case at the request of the judge of Guarantees of that district, Javier Maffucci Moore, the same one that intervenes in the second case of gender violence involving the footballer. This second episode was reported by a 26-year-old girl on May 13 to the Functional Unit of Instruction 3 of Esteban Echeverría and, although the prosecutors requested his immediate arrest, Moore rejected the proposal and suggested deepening the investigation.

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