The alleged victim took that period to report him for being afraid and confirmed that she was advised by Romina Celeste.
Paula Diaz, the trans woman who denounced the candidate for the presidency of Uruguay for him Broad Front, Yamandú Orsifor an alleged attack that occurred in 2014, spoke for the first time and stated that he recognized the former mayor of cannelloni like his attacker just a month ago but who took a while to appear in court out of fear: “He was a guy who scared me,” he said.
After having filed the criminal complaint in the early hours of Wednesday, the trans woman who reported Orsi He told the media his version of the alleged acts of aggression that have caused a significant stir in the political and electoral scene. In an interview with Montevideo Portal, Díaz was asked why, after ten years, she chose this moment to advance judicially.
“Firstly, because when I found out it was him, his face seemed familiar to me. I said ‘I know that face’. The third time I saw him, I realized it was the guy from the Roosevelt Park who, according to what he says, hit him with a headbutt and broke his nose in June 2014. “Then I started talking to people about it and they contacted me with Romina [Celeste Papasso] and I decided to report it. He was a guy who gave me fear”, he explained.
“I spoke with Romina and she supported me, and I ended up filing a complaint,” Díaz said. In that sense, he said that the contact with the militant of the National Party It was given through a third person: “They contacted me, they gave me the number and I called her. I spoke to her on Tuesday night and explained the whole situation to her and she told me to encourage me to report it. I told her that I didn’t report it before out of fear and I told her that she could help me with that. “I don’t know, give me some advice.”
About Orsi, The trans woman said that “this guy hired me for a service, he didn’t pay me because he was drunk, and on top of that he attacked me and ruined my face.” “I’m not even there with show business or popularity. The last thing I want is that or taking money from someone. I want it to be done justice, he added.
For his part, the Frente Amplista candidate rejected the accusations at a press conference on Wednesday, and from those around him they linked the recent episodes to a “dirty campaign” and an “operation” to destabilize both Orsi like the game.
Iturralde rejected an alleged link from the National Party
For his part, the president of the board of directors of the National Party, Pablo Iturralde, rejected possible links between the political space in which Romina Celeste was active with the complaint or even the “dirty campaign” denounced by the campaign command of Orsi.
“A 200-year-old party does not have to give an explanation. We do not have to explain that we did not enter this path, and whoever has the audacity or the audacity to insinuate that the party could be here will have to prove it,” Iturralde said in this regard, and insisted that the reported events are “private” and that Romina Celeste did not act on behalf of the party.
“I did not see anything being done in the name of my party, I did not see it being done in the name of any party group. There is a person who is affiliated with the party, who has a group, who has made a complaint, and is in their right,” he added.
Source: Ambito
