Johan Carbonero is due to stand trial in March 2024 over the complaint filed by a woman in 2020 against the athlete for harassment and attempted abuse.

John Carbonero, Colombian player who plays for Races of Argentina, received a statement from the justice of that country. That tells the ex Once Caldas you will have to go to oral trial in March 2024 due to a complaint filed by a woman in 2020 against the athlete for harassment and attempted abuse. However, this situation does not prevent him from continuing to play officially with his current club.

Marcelo Pena, the plaintiff’s defense lawyer, confirmed in an interview for the Argentinian media Radio Provincia that: “In cases of simple sexual abuse, justice has a very light qualification. It is an incarcerable crime. We intend to have an oral trial, we don’t want the case to get diluted over time.”

johan carbonero He went through the whole process with complete freedom and was able to continue playing in the first division of Argentine football, first in La Plata Gymnasticsa club where he had just arrived when he was denounced, then in Avellaneda Race, board with which he signed in June 2022.

Johan Carbonero, one of the figures of Racing
Johan Carbonero, one of the figures of Racing

Note that Carbonero was accused by the receptionist of the hotel where he was staying when he arrived in Argentina to play at Gimnasia La Plata, in November 2020.

As the complainant told Argentine media, the Colombian asked her out and, when she refused, began to harass her. She also added that the Athlete used the hotel’s internal communication system to go up to the room to turn on the air conditioning; After that, he waited for her shirtless, and once he even grabbed her arm and tried to pull her into the room.

sebastian villabefore Boca Juniorsfaced Argentinian justice over the gender-based violence charges brought by her ex-husband, Daniela Cortes.

In said complaint, Cortés recounted on her Instagram account a series of events in which the Boca player allegedly hit her while they were living together in a residence in the Canning neighborhood of Buenos Aires. The woman attached photos of her beatings, which were later confirmed by medical expertise. On this occasion, she also clarified that the attacker would have threatened to hire a hitman to kill his entire family in Colombia.

“Unfortunately, I have to do it today, because I can’t take it anymore. They spent 2 years living together with a lot of pain during which I forgave and forgave blows hoping for a change from him that never came,” Cortés wrote.

Sebastian Villa, another Colombian player accused of abuse in Argentina.  REUTERS/Matias Baglietto
Sebastian Villa, another Colombian player accused of abuse in Argentina. REUTERS/Matias Baglietto

“I do this out of fear, because who sees this man on the networks or in the press as if he were wise and speaks with maturity, but the reality is different,” he said of Villa, who he defined as “both a physical and psychological aggressor.” and assured that “many people are witnesses”.

“I don’t understand how a ‘professional’ person is able to do so much damage and that because he has bad friends he only devotes himself to threatening and humiliating”, “I feel great pain to have to be in a country that I don’t know, I don’t know, and where I am alone without my family, and not being able to travel and run away for fear that something will happen to my life and that of my family”, “He is the real Sebastián Villa, the one who mistreats women, because I was not the only one”, she underlined the young woman who was in Argentina at the time.

After the development of the lawsuit initiated by Cortés and advised by his lawyer, the two parties reached an amicable agreement which meant a rather large payment of money by Villa.

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