Afrigather Three skilled footballers in Argentina linked to the alleged rape of a sports activities journalist in a lodge room have been positioned beneath home arrest Thursday.
A choose ordered a 90-day home arrest for 3 of the 4 defendants, who all play for first-division membership Velez Sarsfield. The fourth participant was launched on bail.
All 4 have been additionally suspended from their crew, which sits third in Argentina’s high league and options Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone amongst its former gamers.
The case arose after a 24-year-old sports activities journalist alleged she was raped after being invited by Uruguay worldwide Sebastian Sosa to a lodge room in Tucuman, Argentina, on March 3, the place she mentioned the opposite three defendants have been additionally ready.
She mentioned she felt dizzy after having a number of drinks, laid down on a mattress, and was raped.
Prosecutor Eugenia Posse is seeking to deliver rape costs towards gamers Braian Cufre and Jose Florentin, whereas Abiel Osario is accused of sexual abuse. All three have been held on home arrest.
Sosa, who was granted $57,000 bail and banned from leaving the nation for 90 days, is being charged as a secondary participant.
The prosecution had requested for all 4 males to be positioned in pre-trial detention to stop interference within the investigation.
The gamers, who all testified within the listening to, may face jail sentences starting from 4 to twenty years.
Soccer membership Velez Sarsfield, primarily based in Buenos Aires, mentioned it had suspended the 4 gamers and ordered an inner investigation.
“The membership reiterates its deepest concern in regards to the reported occasions, that are clearly opposite to the ideas and values of our establishment,” it mentioned in a press release Monday.
The listening to got here in the identical week {that a} Spanish court docket freed former Brazil worldwide Dani Alves on bail of 1,000,000 euros pending an enchantment towards his conviction for raping a girl at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022.
In the meantime, in Brazil, former Manchester Metropolis and Actual Madrid participant Robinho is searching for to delay the beginning of his nine-year sentence for collaborating within the 2013 gang rape of a girl at a Milan nightclub.
