the argentinian footballer Gonzalo Montiel He was notified of his charge for the crime of “sexual abuse with carnal access, aggravated by the participation of two or more people” for an event that would have occurred on January 1, 2019 in what would be his family’s home, in Viceroy of the Pine, Buenos Aires.
As disclosed Raquel Hermida Legendlawyer for the complainant, the soccer player from Seville and the Argentine National Team appeared on Thursday, June 15 at the Functional Unit for Family and Gender Violence Number 3 of La Matanza, in charge of Dr. Luis Alberto Brogna, where he declared and became aware of his rights as a defendant.
Gonzalo Montiel’s version
During his presentation of the facts, Montiel acknowledged knowing the alleged victim and having had “consensual sexual relations” with her months ago.. He invited the woman to the party and there he introduced her to several of the attendees. At one point in the night, the soccer player left the place to take two friends to their respective houses, but when he returned the celebration was over and everyone was on the street.
“My mother and my friends begin to tell me that C. screamed angrily and said that it was all my fault because I had not taken care of her. I did not understand what he meant, ”she recalled. “They told me that Alexis had taken her home and that before they had been in my dad’s car that he was parked inside the house”, he added before confessing that he did not know this Alexis.
The figure of Acosta Alexis is transcendental in the case, since it is the identity of the alleged rapist, according to Montiel’s version. Although the complainant’s lawyer, Hermida Leyenda, maintains that her client “does not know him.” “What’s more, for us it doesn’t exist”, Add. So far neither Alexis nor the third man who allegedly committed the criminal acts have been identified.
The complaint for which Montiel was charged
The complainant reported that she appeared on January 1, 2019 at the home of Gonzalo Montiel’s family to celebrate the player’s birthday. According to his statement, there were about 25 people at the aforementioned party, including the player’s mother, Marisa. There, she said she, she was sexually abused.
His first complaint was made on January 10, 2019. In it, the young woman presented the studies that were carried out in a medical center after the denounced fact, in which the sexual violence would be verified. It was then that the investigation was opened at UFI 3 in La Matanza.
On March 31, 2023, the young woman ratified her complaint, expanded her statement and he mentioned Montiel as the last person he saw before passing out after “having two drinks”.
According to the journalist Gustavo Grabia, the young woman declared that when she woke up after fainting, she found herself “lying at the entrance to the house (of the Montiel family) bruised, muddywith all the clothes out of place and with Gonzalo’s sister yelling at me ‘don’t mess with my brother, don’t name him, because I’m going to kill you’”.
After that, the young woman declared that they put her in a car that took her home and that After that, she exchanged messages with Montiel, who would have told her that she had had relations with a young man named Alexis..
“It is a complicated complaint, because it was aggravated sexual abuse with carnal access. She doesn’t know how many people were involved in the abuse. But as a result of the first medical analysis that was carried out in a health center, we know that there was carnal access, ”the lawyer Hermida Leyenda said weeks ago on Radio 10.
Regarding how the process will continue, The complainant will appear to testify on Thursday, June 22 and on Tuesday, July 4, there will be another hearing in which two witnesses will appear.
During the therapy sessions to which he had to undergo, the alleged victim recalls “nightmares with three men and one was Gonzalo Montiel”. “I remember the weight of her on me and an attitude of force immobilizing me,” she declared. In addition, he alerted the Justice, always according to Clarín, about various threats that he had suffered from the Montiel family.
