Prosecutor investigates whether others were involved in L-Gante’s case following threats and illegal deprivation of liberty of two people

The prosecutor who intervenes in the case for threats and illegal deprivation of liberty of two people for which the singer Elián Ángel Valenzuela, known as L-Gante, was arrested, investigates whether there were more involved in that same case event that occurred last May after a fight outside a bowling alley in the Buenos Aires town of General Rodríguezjudicial sources reported this Wednesday.

For his part, The singer’s lawyer said that the person who denounced him was his friend and gave an opposite version of the fact.

The head of General Rodríguez’s Functional Instruction Unit (UFI) 9, Alejandra Rodríguez, analyzed the evidence seized during the raids carried out at the time of L-Gante’s arrest, including his BMW car and three replica firearms, before investigating it this Thursday.

The spokesmen specified that during the searches carried out in four properties of the cumbia singer 420, three replicas of 9-millimeter pistols were found, a cell phone and the car in which he is presumed to have held the two victims captive.

“The aftershocks, not having the character of a firearm per se, do not generate any aggravation of their situation,” clarified a source linked to the investigation.

Regarding the BMW of L-Ghent, judicial sources confirmed that everything indicates that it is the same one in which, according to the complainant, He and another person were deprived of liberty for about 20 minutes.

Which The prosecutor now seeks to establish whether, as she suspects, there were more people involved in the event.

The complaint against L-Ghent

The complaint that led to the arrest of the singer It was made on May 27 last by Gastón Torres, a neighbor of the Valenzuela family, who lives in the Bicentenario neighborhood of General Rodríguez, in the western suburbs.

According to Torres, the morning of that day, at the exit of a dance venue located in that town there was an incident with several young people members of the so-called cumbia 420 «La Mafilia», the group of friends and musicians to which L-Gante belongs.

After that, always according to the complainant, members of that same group went to his house and they physically assaulted both him and his family.

As a result, members of the Urban Guard for Citizen Protection of the Municipality of General Rodríguez arrived at the scene to separate and identify the aggressors.

According to the accusation, when the municipal guards had already withdrawn, L-Gante, who performed a show that night in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, went to Torres’ house, threatened him with a firearm and forced him to get into his BMW car.

A few meters away, a young woman, a neighbor of the musician, who had participated in the first discussion with L-Gante’s friends, was also intercepted and forced to get on the same vehicle, the complainant added.

According to the investigators, the 23-year-old singer illegally deprived him of his liberty in order to get him to intercede so that his “people” are not arrested, referring to the members of “La Mafilia.”

“First, he deprives the complainant of his freedom and then the second victim. He kept them for around 20 minutes inside the car, according to records of the geolocation of the victims’ cell phones, and then released them at a service station in the area, where they were captured by a security camera in the area,” said an investigation. .

Your lawyer’s version

Elián Ángel Valenzuela’s lawyer assured that the young man who denounced him was actually his friend, while narrated another version, practically opposite, of the facts that are attributed to the singer.

In dialogue with the press, defender Alejandro Cipolla said that L-Gante told him that he is “surprised” by the complaint made by Gastón Torresand announced that, after the investigation, will request the release of the singer since there is no risk of escape or hindering the investigation.

«He tells me that it is striking that this person has denounced him, since (L-Gante) lived in his house for two years. His wife (Torres’) participated in Elián’s latest video clip and a month ago he asked him for a million pesos to fix the car and he has been constantly asking him for favors regarding political issues,” Cipolla said at the door of the headquarters of the Departmental Investigation Delegation (DDI) of Quilmes, where the singer is staying.

Regarding his assistance, the lawyer said that “he is in good spirits”, that he found him “relatively well” and that he asked about his daughter and his family.

“We were talking about the file, he told me that he wants to testify, so he is going to tell everything how it was,” he said.

Cipolla indicated that Valenzuela confessed to him that “it caught his attention” that Torres “says that he is afraid of him.”since between them “there was a friendly relationship” and even L-Gante “lived in his house before he was known”

The lawyer maintained that the weapons seized in one of the raids on the singer’s property, in the Banco Provincia private neighborhood in the town of Francisco Álvarez, “are replicas” with which his daughter plays.

Besides, He said that they have in their possession a video in which the complainant is making disturbances at the door of L-Ghent’s house on the day of the event and not the other way around.what did you say.

Finally, the lawyer reiterated that “there were no threats” from his client.

s the complaint, the prosecutor Rodríguez took statements from the victims and witnesses to the events, after which requested the recordings of the security cameras from the General Rodríguez Operations Monitoring Center (COM), private locations and toll booths in the area, and cross-referenced and analyzed cell phone equipment, their ownership, and the geolocation of antennas.

With the evidence gathered, the prosecution requested the arrest of Valenzuela before the Court of Guarantees 2, in charge of Judge Gabriel Castro, who validated the request and ordered four raids, one of them in sector 1 of the country of Club Banco Provincia, where he was finally arrested this Tuesday.

The first arrest of L-Ghent

L-Ghent had been involved in another legal case in fFebruary 2022, when he was arrested along with his then partner and mother of his daughter, accused of death threats and injuries against a young man with whom he had a dispute in the neighborhood where his relatives live, in General Rodríguez.

“I refused to testify. I don’t know what weapon they are talking about, they found a toy weapon on my mother,” the musician himself assured the press at the time after that investigation, and maintained that it was all “a joke” and that those who testified in his against, “lie.”

The young man then said that he never had problems with his neighbors in the Bicentenario neighborhood, however, prosecutor Rodríguez charged him and his partner after the statements of at least five witnesses and the analysis of footage in which they are seen together with a group of people going to rebuke a 21 year old.

That boy denounced that on Saturday, February 5, L-Gante threatened him with death and then fired a shot at the ground.

(Source: Telam)