The trial against the cumbia 420 singer Elián Valenzuela, better known as L-Ghent by his stage name, will begin this Tuesday in the Mercedes courts.
The interpreter is charged with the crimes of “threats, illegal deprivation of liberty, qualified threats, simple possession of narcotics and qualified concealment.” This is the case in which the musician was imprisoned for almost three months.
L-Ghent was denounced for events that harmed Darío Gastón Torres and Rosa Catalina Passiwho accused him of intimidate them at gunpoint after several of the members of their group of friends calling themselves “La Maflia” were detained during an operation outside a bowling alley.
The police report shows that that morning on May 27, 2023, after an argument involving his friends in General Rodríguez, The musician, together with De Marco, kidnapped Torres and Passi.
“Using death threats, the musician took them out of the neighborhood, telling them that he would take them to a field he had in Carlos Keen and kill them there. Finally, these subjects released their victims,” was indicated at the time.
What penalty did the defense request for L-Ghent?
According to judicial sources informed to the Noticias Argentinas agency, The lawyers of the injured individual will request a sentence of 12 years of effective prison for the interpreter “given the seriousness of the facts and the number of proceedings against them.” The hearings will take place from 10 a.m. in the Oral Court number 3 of Mercedes, located at 27 to 600 Street.
For his part, L-Gante’s lawyer, Gustavo Stortohad submitted his resignation after the appointment of a new defender in the trial that the musician will face.
“Attentive to the appointment of a new defense lawyer by my assistant in order to carry out the oral and public trial that will be carried out soon and in attention to the different defense strategies that may occur and with the sole intention of not harm or hinder the new proposed defense, I hereby resign from the position of defense attorney for Mr. Elián Ángel Valenzuela,” the statement states.
At the same time, the sponsors of Darío Gastón Torres, who denounced the singer, They had requested his “immediate arrest.”
The complainant’s advisors, Leonardo Sigal and Pablo Becerra, based their request on the fact that the artist “has a multiplicity of open processes, in this and other jurisdictions, highlighting that the sentence pending the present has a minimum of five years and that according to the ideals of art. 371 in fine of the CPPBA, right now, their freedom puts the holding of next week’s contradictory plenary session at serious risk.
“As a result of this, we ask your honor (Ignacio Racca) to order the immediate arrest of Elián Valenzuela,” who spent almost one hundred days in prison during the previous year, due to the same complaint.
Source: Ambito
