They handed over a table tennis player who had been convicted of rape by an Argentinian athlete

Chilean table tennis player Juan Lamadrid Barraza was extradited to Argentina to testify in court about a complaint filed by Argentinian athlete Cielo Rotryng Álvarez, who accused him of sexual abuse in 2017 when he was 14 years old.

The search for a Trans-Andean athlete began in August of last year, when the rape report was made. National Court No. 40 had requested his arrest and his extradition to Argentina. Local media in Chile reported that after the complaint, the athlete no longer went to his usual places or training center.

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Twenty-eight days after the extradition request was made public, the Federal Fugitive and Extradition Investigations Division of the Federal Police decided that the defendant was inside ChileThe exchange of information was started with the Interpol office in the city of Santiago He was arrested on September 21.

From that moment, diplomatic procedures began organize handover and transfer. Finally, five years after the alleged incident, the suspect arrived in Argentina with a warrant from the federal police.

Lamadrid Barraza boarded an Aerolneas Argentinas flight that landed him at Jorge Newbery Airport in the city of Buenos Aires at 6:30 p.m. this Friday, when he was officially arrested on national soil.

Argentinian athlete’s complaint

Cielo Rotryng broke his silence on August 23 when he said in a letter that December 14, 2017 In the Argentine Republic Table Tennis Open tournament, where adults and minors compete, Juan Lamadrid Barraza abused her.

I was barely 14 years old and had the innocence of any girl. How long will these things continue for us? It wasn’t my outfit, and it wasn’t the time or the place. If there is no consent, it is rape. Today I decide to keep quiet,” he wrote on his Instagram five months ago.

Although he did not give details about the event, in the interview TN the young woman said soit was something pre-planned. I don’t believe that one person has the ability to change the course of things from one second to the next. It so happened that I was going somewhere and he appeared behind me and said:’No, we’re going the other way‘ he explained.

The then 14-year-old athlete said it was hard for her to “take in the facts” and revealed she didn’t want to report that fear: “I knew there was going to be a lot of talk and my sports career was left hanging by a thread. Later I realized that when you do things right, nothing can go wrong.

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The 19-year-old thanked the support of CENARD, other environmental players and the Argentine Table Tennis Federation (FATM), but warned that “No one was surprised by what happened because of the mechanism by which this person operated.”

After Rotryng’s complaint, the media mega news circulated messages in which Lamadrid referred to the subject. In an Instagram story (her account is private about her), she said: I’m super worried. They make me laugh”.

He had also threatened with his own complaints: I’m from the street, I have codes, I have a sister, I have a mother, they don’t know me. I am going to file a complaint against all of them and they will have to pay me. Either they pay me or go to jail. Short”.

Cielo had clarified before this: I wasn’t surprised by his messages or his arrogant way of speaking. He doesn’t have a general level image. He is very personable selfish.