Raúl Daniel Villalba, the prosecutor who led the case that left him imprisoned for three months to the singer Elián Valenzuela, better known as L-Ghent, He died this Sunday of a heart attack while playing a soccer game.
Villalba brought forward the case against L-Gante for alleged illegitimate deprivation of liberty and threats against a municipal employee and a neighbor of General Rodríguez. The death of the 56-year-old prosecutor occurred almost simultaneously with the knowledge of the date that will begin the oral trial that will bring the artist to the stand, October 8.
“With deep sadness and regret, we regret to report the death of Dr. Raúl Daniel Villalba, trial prosecutor of Our Department. We extend our condolences and support to his wife, children, friends and work team,” indicated the College of Magistrates and Civil Servants. of the Judicial Department of Moreno-General Rodríguez.
The incident that the musician is accused of occurred in May 2023, when Darío Gastón Torres and Rosa Catalina Passi accused him of intimidating them at gunpoint, after several of the members of his group of friends, calling themselves “La Maflia”, were detained during an operation outside a bowling alley. For this, L-Gante is accused of the crimes of “threats, illegal deprivation of liberty, qualified threats, simple possession of narcotics and aggravated concealment”, which contemplate penalties in expectation exceeding ten years in prison.
Thus, the trial will take place between the next 8, 9, 10 and 11 of October and The prosecutor who was leading the case must be replaced.
The Oral Court number 3 of Mercedes, province of Buenos Aires, urged all parties to the trial “to make the corresponding discrimination to bring to trial only the witnesses they deem relevant to resolve the case.”
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