Chicho Serna on Villa’s trial: “Let’s hope there isn’t a black hand”

Mauricio “Chicho” Serna, member of the Football Council, referred to the trial facing Sebastián Villa for gender violence and launched a controversial phrase: “Let’s hope there is no black hand. It’s the only thing missing.” In the last hours, the prosecution requested a sentence of two years and three months in prison of conditional compliance for the soccer player Sebastián Villa. The request was made on Wednesday by the trial prosecutor Sergio Anauati, during the first day of arguments before the Correctional Court 2 of Lomas de Zamora.In this sense, the Colombian benched the footballer: “Villa is being defended properly, with all the accompaniment of the club. We have a lot of confidence and certainty of what is going to happen. As always, you have to trust in justice.” Let’s hope there isn’t a black hand. That is the only thing missing. In the Boca World there is never a lack …”, said the right hand of Juan Román Riquelme. The footballer is accused of the crimes of minor injuries qualified by the link and for being a man with a woman in real contest with coercive threats. For the prosecution, there was a context prior to the incident under investigation and listed that there had been an “escalation” of violence that began with Villa’s jealousy towards her, some pushes he gave her and she downplayed it, the intake of alcohol by the player and in a coexistence in the middle of a pandemic decreed at that time.

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