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Tucumán Journalist Hospitalized After Suicide Attempts as Ex‑Vélez Case Escalates

Her hospitalization follows a counter-complaint by José Florentín that triggered swift searches, prompting renewed criticism of prosecutorial delays.

Overview

  • The 26-year-old twice attempted to take her life — first trying to jump from a terrace before being stopped by a maintenance worker, then ingesting sleeping pills — and is now under care at a public hospital.
  • The criminal file remains in the instruction phase under prosecutor Adriana Reinoso Cuello with no trial date set, while the accused continue their professional football careers.
  • Florentín filed an official counter-complaint in Tucumán’s Unidad Fiscal de Decisión Temprana alleging false testimony, document alteration, procedural fraud and criminal association, and sought status as a private accuser.
  • The filing named the complainant’s lawyers, relatives and a national deputy, cited phone forensics and chat records, and requested home searches, call logs, geolocation data and some detentions.
  • Judicial measures were ordered rapidly, including searches at the father of the complainant and her attorneys’ residences, as her legal team urged sending the original case to trial and denounced re-victimizing delays.