Uruguayan soccer player Nicolas Schiappacassethat was arrested on January 26 carrying a firearmfaces preventive detention “very depressed” and with Covid-19, according to what his defense attorney indicated on Monday, Karen Pintos.
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“He is very depressed, very bad, so once we can have physical contact with him, we are going to have him have some kind of containment with health professionals,” the lawyer said in an interview with local radio.Sports 890‘.
Mattress between 2016 and 2018
The player, who was going to renew for the Penarol Uruguayan and who played between 2016 and 2018 in the lower categories of the Atletico Madridis serving 90 days in preventive detention for illegal possession of a firearm, in addition to other charges.
Pintoswho was recently hired by the player’s parents, acknowledged that he had only had contact with her, since in his first week in the admissions center only lawyers could enter and later, when he was transferred to the Florida prison (south) , was included in the Covid protocol due to the high number of inmates affected and remained “without access to family, friends or a lawyer.”
“He’s extremely depressed”
Later, he himself became infected, so he is now isolated. “He is extremely depressed,” explained Pintos, who denied some facts commented after his arrest, such as what the player himself had declared.
“Nicolás has not yet declared either at the police headquarters or at the Prosecutor’s Office. Nothing that went viral with audios is not true … The networks have those things. In this case, which is very attractive, things that are not real went viral” , he added.
Regarding the state of health of his client, he said that suffering from depression is always “worrying” and that he is waiting to “receive medical attention and be evaluated by professionals.”
arrested in January
Schiappacasse was arrested on January 26 with a 9-millimeter firearm when he went to watch a pre-season match between his team and Nacional in the city of Maldonado (southeast).
His attorney at the time, Raphael Garciadetailed in a press conference that the weapon had been reported as stolen for two years.
the arrest of schiappacase It occurred at a time of full discussion in the South American country about violence in the world of sports due to various criminal acts related, to a greater or lesser extent, to the two great Uruguayan soccer clubs.
