Thursday, February 23, 2023 | 11:25 a.m.
After the denunciations of three young people who would have been threatened by a businessman and honorary consul, four other adolescents appeared yesterday before the Campo Viera Police Station and ratified the accusation.
As published by El Territorio in its edition the day before, the incident occurred last Friday at the entrance to the National Tea Festival.
“You are the ones who play music in the roundabout, if you continue with the fucking truck, you’re going to wake up floating in the Paraná because with the neighbors we raised 1,000 dollars each and hired ten Paraguayans,” Miguel S. would have said before a group of five young people between the ages of 16 and 19.
The day before, according to a spokesman for the case, four boys who witnessed the incident appeared at the police headquarters to give testimony and endorsed the statements of the complainants, which would complicate the situation of the consul.
The background of the case would have to do with the fact that the recipients of the alleged threat would be accustomed to listening to music in the roundabout accessing the town, which would have irritated the accused.
Héctor Sobotka (49), father of one of the minors, commented that at the end of the year his son and friends got together to listen to music in the roundabout, other neighbors joined and there were no incidents, as confirmed by the local police station.
Meanwhile, he explained that “to avoid further inconvenience, the boys met with the mayor and he gave them permission to hold the gathering in a sector of the roundabout. They got back together, the police were present and there were no problems either”.
In this context, last Friday night the same group of friends went to the Tea Party, where they ran into Miguel S.
In this sense, Sobotka mentioned that in the first instance the businessman asked them if they were the boys who play music in the roundabout “because of how stupid they look,” he would have opined.
“And there he told them ‘look, if you are going to continue with that, we together with the neighbors will raise a thousand dollars each and hire ten Paraguayans, so at any moment you will be floating in the Paraná.’ When the boys wanted to record him, he withdrew from the place, ”he mentioned.
The day before, El Territorio sought to speak with the defendant through his children and also with the mayor of the town, Germán Burger, but received no answers.
