The general appeal is against what was resolved on November 24 by the magistrate who did not accept the request for house arrest requested by his defense. Now they ask that this provision be annulled and that he be given house arrest.
points the defense that not even the Public Ministry opposed the application of a less burdensome measure than imprisonment and that the provisions of Judge Lovera aggravate the rights of Fretes.
The brief presented in favor of Fretes also points out that there is a bail that was offered, that there is no danger of flight and there is no obstruction to the investigation. Therefore, there are no elements to continue maintaining the prison.
However, the magistrate had another criterion. in the hearing that took place on November 24 and ordered that Marcelo Fretes remain in prison.
The beating of Benjamín Zapag by the rugby players occurred in the bathroom of an Asuncion nightclub. Photo: Surveillance video capture.
In this way Marcelo Fretes did not recover his freedom and he remained in prison like the other defendant Héctor Grau, to whom the Appeals Chamber denied the application of alternative measures to prison.
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This case began in the early hours of November 6 when Benjamín Zapag was the victim of a brutal beating. inside a nightclub located in the Villa Morra neighborhood of Asunción.
Through closed circuit images, the alleged attackers could be seen after committing the act. Benjamin testified before the prosecution and confirmed that Fretes and Grau were the two people who attacked him in the nightclub bathroom.
The entrance Benjamín Zapag case: Marcelo Fretes imprisonment appealed was first published on newspaper TODAY.
