“I didn’t touch a hair,” said Leandro García Gómez when testifying before the judge and denying the accusations of kidnapping and gender violence against the former member of Bandana.
Leandro Esteban García Gómezcouple of the former member Bandana Lourdes Fernándezdenied this Friday that he had kidnapped the singer during his investigative statement before the judge. Diego Javier Slupskiholder of Criminal and Correctional Court No. 13and the prosecutor Silvana Russiof the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office No. 43.
The man, arrested on Thursday after an operation in his apartment Palermoassured that Fernández stayed with him of his own free will and that he had decided to distance himself from his mother, Mabelwho was the one who promoted the complaints for gender violence and the search for disappearance.
During the hearing, García Gómez refused to answer questionsbut he did provide a brief presentation to reject the accusations against him. “I didn’t touch a hair“, he said before the magistrate, denying the testimonies of relatives and friends of the artist who had pointed out episodes of physical aggression.
He also referred to rumors about possible drug use by Fernández, and assured that the singer “does not take drugs“, admitting that he does consume narcotics. “The only one who takes drugs is me“, he expressed in his statement, as revealed by judicial sources.
The case remains pending while Justice tries to establish under what circumstances was Lourdes Fernández found inside the defendant’s home, after his mother reported him missing. The former singer still did not appear to testify before the Office of Domestic Violence of the Supreme Courtwhich seeks to take testimony from him to clarify what happened during the days prior to his appearance and define whether there were acts of violence or deprivation of liberty.
Who is Leandro García Gómez, the ex-partner of Lourdes de Bandana who was arrested
Leandro Esteban García Gómez He is a 47-year-old businessman who, until this week, had had no relevance on the public agenda. However, in the last few hours it was arrested in his Palermo apartment, after a court order accused of retaining his ex-partner Lourdes Fernándezthe singer member of the group Bandana.
During the morning, after the disappearance report made by Fernández’s mother, the businessman was seen leaving his building and responded with an evasive phrase to journalists: “Let Cristina come back now. This doesn’t go any further. They distracted themselves with this all morning so as not to talk about the situation in the country.”.
At that time, there was still no search warrant or formal accusation against him. However, there was talk of his background gender violence against Fernández, who lor reported on two occasions for beatings and mistreatment. For this reason, Justice placed him as the main suspect when the operation was deployed to find the former member of Bandana.
In this framework, Lisa VeraLourdes’ partner in Bandana, declared before the Court that García Gómez was “a very dangerous person” and that the singer had suffered situations of violence for years. “He always sabotaged her: shows, trips, tickets”said Vera, who also stated that the singer had suffered a rib injury and that she requested a perimeter measure to protect herself.
Source: Ambito
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