2023-09-15 18:57:00
L-Gante told what his days in prison were like: “At first I didn’t even have a mattress, then the other detainees lent me” (Video: Vorterix)
“I am innocent,” is the first thing that Elián Ángel Valenzuela – popularly known as L-Gante – said this Friday, a week after having regained his freedom, after almost 100 days detained in the DDI of Quilmes, within the framework of a case for the crimes of unlawful deprivation of liberty and possession of firearms.
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The Cumbia 420 leader – who wrote more than 20 songs during his days of detention in Cell 4 – explained that it was a “discussion with a neighbor” who lives 50 meters from his house. That days after that exchange, he had received comments in the neighborhood that he had been reported, which is why he was not surprised when police officers showed up at his house to arrest him.
Regarding that moment, he recalled: “I continued my normal life, as if nothing had happened. One day I came home after a show, I went to sleep and my friend woke me up to tell me to get up to eat, that they had made stew.” The musician asked him to give him a few minutes to “wake up.” And from one moment to the next he felt like he was uncovered. “There were like 20 police officers,” he said.
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“In one hand, a phone and in the other, a gun,” he said about the position of the police officers who told him to get up and “show his face.” “Wait, leave me alone for a moment. I get dressed and then we do everything we have to do,” L-Gante told them at the moment he understood that that judicial situation corresponded to the argument he had had with his neighbor. “I was sleeping with two girls and there were a couple of friends on the ground floor of the house. Almost 100 days passed and I saw everyone again.”
L-Gante spoke about his relationship with the other detainees and the police during his almost 100 days in detention (Video: Vorterix)
Once he arrived at the detention center, and while they were doing the physical checks – “they checked me to make sure I was not hurt” – he began to hear the screams of other detainees who knew that he would be their next partner. “L-Ghent, we know you’re here,” the musician heard from afar, although he couldn’t see anyone’s face.
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He was in an individual cell, number 4, from which he signed all the writings that his entourage made public through social networks. “I was calm, everyone spoke well to me. I was alone, I had to get things because I arrived and I had nothing. No mattress. With nothing. Thank goodness I told them I was dressing, otherwise I was wearing shorts,” L-Gante continued in the interview he gave this Friday on Crossover, on Vorterix.
“I spent two days there, half precarious. Afterwards, they gave me a mattress, pillows, and blankets. The detainees who are there lent me the things. So I send greetings to all: cell 1, 2 and 3, I wish you the best, that you reform in society,” added the Cumbia 420 reference who will soon release a new album with the name of the cell in which He remained detained for almost 100 days.
L-Ghent at a press conference after regaining freedom (RS Photos)
For his part, he said that he was only able to “catch up” when 40 days of detention had passed. And he remembered what they told him during that time: “Don’t worry, all this is going to happen. “You’re leaving,” he replied and considered: “I understand that they do it to make you feel good, but not to impress you in there either. “I took it pretty easy, I never got down.”
And he joked that “the worst mistake” was that they gave him a marker with which he made all kinds of drawings and graffiti on the cell wall: “It was really clean and now it is scratched.”
Meanwhile, he said that on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays he was allowed and optional to go out to the patio for a period between half an hour and 40 minutes. “You obviously want to see the sunlight.”
On those occasions, he also took the opportunity to talk to the other detainees. “There he could see them. He was calm, he drank mate.” And he recalled the first impressions when they met him: “Everyone told me that they couldn’t believe it, that they had wanted to go see me, another told me that he had gone to my house and had waited for me for four hours one day and I didn’t come out. “I wasn’t even at home that day.”
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When they asked the musician if the other detainees had asked him to sing a song, L-Gante refused and joked: “What am I, El Cuis from El Marginal?”, referring to the character played by actor Diego Cremonesi in the second season of the miniseries in which El Sapo (Roly Serrano) forced him to sing inside the prison.
“The police treated me well,” he continued, “they don’t trust you with good treatment either because they don’t have to have that treatment, but I also made it clear to them not to mess with me, in the moments they wanted to appease me. ‘Don’t mess with me, we’re cool here,’” the musician recalled.
And he concluded: “Not all people have a conviction, or have already been declared guilty there. They also don’t have the right to treat you badly. We are in the process, no one is guilty yet.”
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