The two girls who denounced the Peñarol players Walter Gargano and Lucas Viatri They tried to negotiate an economic agreement with the soccer players, close to US $ 50 thousand, not to make a criminal claim for sexual abuseas reported by Telemundo and confirmed to The Observer sources of the defendants.
The events occurred on March 8, at a party held in an event hall. There two girls denounced that Walter Gargano committed a crime of sexual abuse in the kitchen of the placeand that Viatri he attacked them by asking them not to film or be on their cell phones at the party.
Juan Antonio Rodríguez, lawyer and representative of Peñarol, agreed with the room’s lawyer, Juan Pablo Decia, that the players They will pay $ 70 thousand for different damages that occurred in the place at the party.
Days after this arrangement, the representative of the Gargano and Viatri team told The Observer that received a call from a lawyer representing two of the three girls who were at the party for seek an economic settlement that would avoid a sexual abuse claim.
According to the lawyer, an economic solution was negotiated with the representative of the girls, but “Money was requested well above” what the players’ defense understood as adequateso the negotiations they got frustrated.
In mid-June, nearly three months after the events, and with the negotiations frustrated according to Rodríguez, the defense of the women, already at that time represented by the lawyer Valentina Díaz, They filed a criminal complaint for sexual abuse.
Rodríguez declared to the justice about the negotiations this Wednesdayas the lawyer Ignacio Durán, representative of Lucas Viatri, reported to Telemundo. Decia also ratified these facts in court.
Durán stated that both he and Rodríguez were surprised that after “several months of negotiations” it was decided to denounce. The delegate of the players’ team “He questioned the professional performance and the approach that if there really were objective elements to report, why was it not reported”explained Viatri’s lawyer.
The case is also in the Specialized Family Court, where in June Judge Lilián Elhorriburu prohibited the players from come within 500 meters of the complainants. They will also not be able to communicate with them until December 30, 2022period in which the precautionary measures of rigor will be applied in these cases.
