Sunday May 7, 2023 | 12:30 p.m.
A strong dispute that arose around midnight last Monday over an alleged late delivery of a couple of cold pizzas meant that textile businessman Santiago Pissani (55) became one of the main issues for much of the week. of conversation of the posadenos. But beyond the memes or the jokes that were generated on social networks with what happened, the delivery man Sebastián Lafuente (23), was hit with various blows due to the heated discussion he had with the merchant.
Thank you for making everything go viral. I am not going to shut up because I defend my rights and I am going to fight for justice to be done,” the young delivery man expressed through his social networks, hours after transcending what happened to him.
But after four days of being searched for in different parts of the city, and when the Misiones Police had him practically surrounded, the accused businessman decided to stand up for himself and, accompanied by his lawyer, appeared in the Investigating Court Two of Posadas to then be formally detained and housed in the Third section.
How was the fact known? Around 11:50 p.m. on Monday, Lafuente had gone to the businessman’s private home to deliver an order for two pizzas that the latter had previously requested.
At the home, located on Barrufaldi street almost Uruguay avenue, the now detainee had claimed that his order was delayed. Reason for which he told her that he would not pay for the entire meal, throwing the merchandise on the ground and aggressively telling him to leave.
The young man’s classmates protested in support of him. Photos: Joaquin Galiano
Ever since the young man’s presentation to the Police, the alleged victim added that when he left the house, the man went out to confront him, pushing him off the motorcycle.
And that later, when trying to get up, Pissani held him on the ground, stepping on him at the height of his back and leaving him face down.
Given this, Sebastián energetically asked him to let him go. But the businessman ignored the request and tried to remove the young man’s helmet, but he had it fastened.
For this reason, with his helmet on, he began to receive brutal blows to his face. Later, at one point, Pissani stopped his assault and threatened the 23-year-old with death if he ratted him out.
“If you get to me, I’m going to look for you and I’m going to blow everything up,” the champion of different martial arts warned him, as he returned to his home.
Likewise, Sebastián observed that the attacker dropped a serrated knife.
Due to the incident, according to official sources, Sebastián L. ended up with injuries to his eye, neck -from his helmet strap- and left cheekbone.
police search
Throughout the days after the complaint of the motomandados was known, where a video was also viralized in which part of the aggression was recorded, the case added different seasonings.
One of them was the radio note that the defendant himself gave on Wednesday morning to give his version of the facts, where he said that he was calm at home, waiting to be called by Justice.
But when a police commission went looking for him that same afternoon at his home, he did not make himself available to Justice and from there they searched for him in different buildings in the city.
During the radio interview, the merchant and former Greco-Roman wrestling champion clarified that at no time did he threaten his complainant with a knife. And that he defended himself from a first attack that he received from the delivery.
Regarding the incident, Pissani explained that “when the boy came I interpreted that he had nothing to do with it, do you understand me? They gave the kid the pizza, and he brought it to me. So I tell him, look, skinny, everything is fine, take the pizza that came cold and take these people and tell them that this can’t be done, that they can’t make me wait two hours and bring me the cold pizza”.
He acknowledged that he did not have an attitude appropriate to the situation, but denied having started an attack. “I was wrong because I threw the pizza on the floor and then I picked him up and gave it to his hand,” she explained.
According to the account made by the merchant, the situation continued with the young man arguing that the return would make him lose his income from the trip. “He tells me ‘no, stop, they’re going to discount my pizza.’ And I tell him ‘you take him and if they discount the pizza, I’ll give you the money tomorrow, and I’ll pay you for delivery now.’ Because it’s a job and my anger was with the one at the pizzeria because it took me a while, do you understand?” Pissani said.
There he said that the conversation got out of control and that is when, according to the businessman, the delivery began with the aggression. “The boy gets angry, did you see? He started filming there, and well I give him a push and tell him go away. There he gets off and he tells me, ‘I’m going to shit on you’ and he kicks me. And well, I react in defense and throw him to the ground, I climb on top and he wouldn’t calm down. I touched him a little, I didn’t even hit him because you can see in the video that I’m patting him. And I speak to him well, I tell him I’m going to let you go, you’re going to get on your motorcycle and you’re going to go, ”he clarified.
Although when asked about the arrest request that weighed on him, he assured that until then he had not been notified of anything and that he was at home.
“Nobody came looking for me or sent me a summons, because if they send me a summons I go to court,” he said.
frustrated trip
Through sources linked to the investigation of the case, this medium was able to learn that after Judge Juan Manuel Monte ordered the arrest warrant for the businessman, the investigations established that the defendant had bought a ticket to travel by plane to Buenos Aires.
This was on Thursday and Pissani was expected to board a domestic flight that left at night, which led to a strong operation by the Airport Security Police (PSA). Although he finally never stepped foot in the capital’s airport.
On the other hand, hours before the businessman’s voluntary surrender, the intervening magistrate had rejected a request for exemption from prison for Pissani, who tomorrow could be transferred again to court for a possible investigative hearing in a case where he would initially be accused of injuries and threats.
That same Friday, the Misiones Police carried out two raids on different buildings in the provincial capital where the businessman was believed to be hiding. The first address seized was a property located on Pedro Perpetuo Forés street, a few meters from the Costa Mango private neighborhood of the provincial capital.
On Wednesday at siesta, under heavy rain that accompanied almost all police interventions, a first raid had been carried out at the defendant’s business premises, located on Barrufaldi street at 2200, where the investigations did not locate the merchant, but they did they interviewed one of their adolescent sons.
Whistleblower support
A large group of delivery people from different companies held a protest on Avenida Uruguay in the provincial capital on Thursday afternoon to give their support to the 23-year-old man who was beaten on Monday
by the textile businessman Santiago Pissani (55).
In addition to accompanying the assaulted worker and requesting the arrest of the merchant, the self-summoned also demanded better working conditions so that situations such as those experienced by the assaulted young man are not repeated.
The demonstration began around 7:00 p.m., at the corner of Avenida Uruguay and Calle Barrufaldi, a few meters from the Pissani business premises and where the incident in which Sebastián L. (23) was attacked also took place.
