The Colombian Sebastian Villa, player of Boca Juniors, He pleaded not guilty this Monday in the trial being held against him in Buenos Aires for alleged injuries and threats made in 2020 against his then partner.
“The fact that is imputed to me, I did not commit it,” Villa said according to the Clarín newspaper in its digital edition.
The oral trial against the Colombian player began on April 17 in Correctional Court 2, in the town of Lomas de Zamora, in the province of Buenos Airesand is chaired by Judge Claudia Dávalos, and the arguments of the parties are expected on Wednesday of next week.
town26, is being tried for the crimes of “minor injuries aggravated by the bond and mediating gender violence and coercive threats” against Daniela Cortés, and if found guilty could receive a maximum sentence of six years in prison.
The trial discusses the alleged events that occurred in April 2020 in the house they shared Villa and Cortes in the private neighborhood of Saint Thomas, in the town of Canning, in the province of Buenos Aires.
That same night, Cortés published the images of his injuries on his social networks and the next morning he filed a criminal complaint.
Villa was also denounced by another woman in May 2022 for a second episode of gender violence, which supposedly happened in June 2021, for sexual abuse with carnal access, aggravated by the injuries.
The Colombian, who plays in the Boca Juniors Argentine since 2018, he was backed by the club’s vice president, Juan Ramón Riquelme, and in fact participated in the superclassic this Sunday, which ended in a 1-0 defeat against River Plate.
The match this Sunday, in addition to ending in a scandal -with a confrontation between the two teams on the playing field that resulted in six expelled, three per side-, town He was one of the Boca players who received the most whistles and insults from River fans, as well as chants from the stands due to his judicial situation.
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