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After failing to appear at a preliminary hearing, Judge Hilda Benítez, from Paraguay, ordered the capture of Nicolás de la Cruz, a footballer for River Plate and the Uruguay National Team. This was due to a cause that was opened in 2016 due to violent incidents in the final of the Copa Libertadores sub-20.
Before his absence, Benítez declared De la Cruz in a state of rebellion and with an arrest warrant in Paraguayan territory, according to the judge told the media. The magistrate explained that the leaflet could have responded to the requisition of the process through a lawyer and that the hearing “could have been carried out electronically.”
The player was already detained for a few hours in Asunción on August 28, 2019, one day before the second leg of the quarterfinals of the Argentine River Plate Libertadores with Cerro Porteño, but he was released after the payment of bail and the obligation to appear again in the case.
That brief detention did not prevent him from scoring the goal in the 1-1 draw that determined the Millionaire’s pass to the semifinals of that edition of the tournament.
The antecedents of the cause go back to the final of the Copa Libertadores Sub’20, and had him and four other players as protagonists. De la Cruz played for Liverpool in his country and in that game, which his team lost 1-0 to Brazilian Sao Paulo, he entered into a brawl that led to a criminal case that remains open for alleged assault on two police officers.
At the moment, the arrest warrant is only for the country, a place where River could return in the current edition of the Libertadores if there are a combination of results.
For this to happen, the ‘Millo’ would have to eliminate Nacional from Uruguay in the quarterfinals and for Libertad to do the same against Palmeiras, thus both would meet in the semifinals next January.
