The Federal Oral Court No. 3 convicted a trade unionist from the Automotive Tram Union (UTA), Sergio Raúl Gauna, who had been accused of participating in attacks against a businessman in the transport sector and the blockade of his business.
The decision was adopted by Judge Andrés Basso, who ordered that the defendant comply with a series of measures as a form of reparation for the facts under investigation.
According to the court ruling, Gauna must make a total donation of $400,000 to Garrahan Hospital and also do 100 hours of community work at a Caritas Argentina headquarters near his home.
The sanction is framed within the concept of the suspension of trial on probation, a mechanism that makes it possible to avoid oral proceedings by complying with certain conditions.
The cause
The conflict that gave rise to the case dates back to early 2021. At that time, Gauna was arrested along with four other alleged accomplices after blocking a property belonging to the company Expresso del Oeste, located in the Buenos Aires district of La Matanza. During that episode, the group staged a violent attack against the company's owner, businessman Esteban Falcigno
.Security cameras at the scene recorded the entire sequence. The images show how the group violently entered the businessman's office, pushed him and threw him to the ground. As a result of the attack, the victim suffered secondary cervical and encephalocraneal trauma
.After the attack, Falcigno also received death threats to delete the images he had taken with his cell phone during the blockade. “Delete the photos or we'll take you outside and kill you,” they said, as recorded in the case
