Thursday May 11, 2023 | 1:49 p.m.
Santiago Pissani, a businessman from Posada, charged with the crimes of injury and threats after beating and threatening to kill a pizza delivery man who arrived at his home with an order on the night of Labor Day, will continue to be deprived of liberty due to that the head of the Second Investigating Court of Posadas, Juan Manuel Monte, rejected the request for release presented by his defense.
The magistrate’s decision was notified shortly before noon, so the former champion of martial arts and Greco-Roman wrestling returned to the cell of the Third police station where he has been staying since last Friday, when he turned himself in to the authorities after spending four days on the run.
as far as he could tell The territorythe judicial authority argued the rejection based on the potential risk of flight and the danger to the victim, although a series of measures are still pending to prove the facts denounced.
Regarding the former, judicial sources revealed that Pissani had bought tickets to another Argentine province when he was being sought by the Misiones Police and federal forces. Parallel to that, his defense was processing his release from prison, which was also rejected at the time.
Regarding the second, Judge Monte understands that the freedom of the subject could mean a danger to the victim since, after the beating, he made death threats.
Pissani’s version
It is worth mentioning that in his statements the defendant ratified his version expressed to a radio medium, on which occasion he stated that he had been beaten first, for which reason he acted in self-defense. “When the boy came, I interpreted that he had nothing to do with it. They gave him the pizza and he brought it to me. So I tell him that everything is fine, take the pizza that came cold, take these people and tell them that That is not done. That they cannot make me wait two hours and bring me the cold pizza,” he said and in another part of the interview he acknowledged that he did not have an attitude according to the situation. But he denied starting an attack. “I was wrong because I dropped the pizza on the floor and then picked it up and gave it to her hand,” he explained.
According to the textile businessman’s account of the event, 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 the pizza.’ work and my fight was with the pizzeria because it took me, do you understand?” Pissani said.
Along these lines, he said that the conversation got out of control and that is when, according to Pissani, the delivery began with the aggression. “The boy gets angry, did you see? He started filming there, and well I push him and tell him go away. There he gets off and says, ‘I’m going to shit on you’ and he kicks me. And well, I reacted in defense and I threw him to the ground, I climbed on top of him and he wouldn’t calm down”, he claimed, adding that “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 well to him, he I say ‘I’m going to let you go, you’re going to get on your motorcycle and you’re going to go,'” he clarified.
