Justice accused the four aggressors of the beating of an 18-year-old boy in Punta del Este for aggravated private violence and personal injury. One of them was identified as the author of the injuries while the other three as co-authors.
The prosecutor of the Ana Rosés case requested talso preventive detention for 90 days but this was rejected by the judge of the case which determined that the defendants must fix a domicile as well as that they cannot approach less than 500 meters from the victim for 90 days. In addition, their travel documents were withheld and they will not be able to leave the country.
Rosés decided to appeal this decision of the judge and what is related to precautionary measures will be evaluated by a Court of Appeals. The risk to the victim and the obstruction of the investigation are the elements that the prosecutor raised to request preventive detention, as she explained at a press conference after the hearing.
The four assailants were reported for beating an 18-year-old boy in Punta del Este when he was leaving his house. The assailants justified the attack by saying that they mistook the young man for a thief.
The young man was analyzed after the attack by a doctor who reported that he had “severely beaten legs, (a) sharp wound in the calf of a certain depth, and very injured back and chest,” he explained to The Observer Pablo Romero, father of the victim. According to the father, this is due in part to the fact that when he was hit by the quad, as he detailed several times, he hit the ground.
In addition, twelve hours after the event, the forensic expertise was carried out, which recorded “pain in the lower lumbar area. Erosion in the left leg and pain in the right leg,” details the document, which was accessed The Observer. Recovery time is stated to be three to four days and downtime is three days.
