World Cup winner Gonzalo Montiel has just signed for Nottingham Forest. Argentina prosecutors are investigating him over an alleged rape
In June, he was interviewed by Buenos Aires prosecutors investigating an alleged rape of a young woman at a party at his house in January 2019.Back in January 2019, Montiel was playing for Argentine club River Plate. He joined Sevilla in 2021. Now he has arrivedThere are few important things we’d like to mention to readers here.
That night, according to the complaint lodged by the alleged victim, she was allegedly raped by three male individuals. Two of them she was not able to identify, one she identified as Montiel. In her statement to prosecutors, the alleged victim also said that she suspected her drink had been spiked.According to his statement to prosecutors in June, during the night of the party he was coming and going from the house, driving to buy alcohol and other drinks, and to collect and bring more friends.
According to prosecutors, she was not able to name or describe any of the men who allegedly raped her because she could not recall anything of what had happened. According to her testimony to prosecutors, which was conducted earlier this month, in the four years since the alleged rape she has been able to recollect certain details, helped by psychological therapy. Her testimony was made via video call because of “fear and threats, because everything has been made public”, she said.
She replied: “I had nightmares and then I called the person who was treating me at the time, and with the sessions I had I started to remember.” Asked whether she knew if the bedroom was in the house where the party was taking place, she replied: “I really don’t know.”
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