Ángel Cabrera: will not play the Augusta Masters, between capture orders and an injury

CORDOBA.- Angel “the Duck” Cabrera, the only Argentine and Latin American who won the Augusta Masters, will not play the tournament this season. Winner in the 2009 edition, the Cordoba has the right to participate for life. He had never been absent, but this time he will do so in the tournament that begins next Thursday. Operated less than a month ago for an injury to the wrist and another to the elbow, continues in the United States. By the process that is followed in a cause of gender violence, is in a “fugitive” condition for the Justice of Córdoba that last August ordered his arrest.

The Augusta Masters is one of the greatest international golf tournaments; In 2018, Cabrera registered the worst of his performances in that tournament. Last year he participated with just turned 50 and a poor performance, ten years after wearing the green coat.

At the end of October He received a rejection from the Indictment Chamber to his appeal to the international arrest warrants. Days before – on the 9th of last month – he had published photos on his Twitter account showing him bandaged after the operation. “Operation on my wrist. Hoping for a speedy recovery,” he wrote. From their surroundings they confirmed THE NATION that he will not participate in Augusta because of that surgery. “You they extracted an overbone on the wrist and they did multiple points on the elbow from a problem with nerves“, they described.

Cabrera’s judicial problems deepened in August when the Cordovan justice issued two arrest warrants for a cause of gender violence, to which one of international capture through Interpol. The golfer’s defender, Miguel Gavier, requested the nullity of that step, but a few days ago the Accusation Chamber rejected it.

Although there is the request of Justice still Cabrera’s name does not appear in Interpol’s list of “public red notices” of wanted. The red notices reach “fugitives wanted for prosecution or to serve a sentence”; it is a request to law enforcement agencies around the world to locate and provisionally detain a person pending extradition, surrender or similar judicial action.

Gavier, at the time, said that Cabrera would return “as soon as he can return and the guarantee conditions that are necessary are given”. From the beginning, when the plaintiff’s lawyer argued that he could not leave the country, he stated that “there is no restriction” to move. “Justice could have resolved it but it did not. Neither the Prosecutor nor the Chamber did it; it had no prohibition and, in fact, in all this process that has been going on for several years, Cabrera traveled” to different destinations. He also explained that the golfer has registered address with the Family Violence Prosecutor’s Office in Houston, United States.

The Chamber Prosecutor, Laura Battistelli, admitted that Cabrera had no express travel ban, but he maintained: “There is a situation called ‘being under the law and keeping one’s home’ that allows every citizen to wait for a trial in freedom and that was in the city of Villa Allende.”

The Regular flights were re-established in September, for example, since that month Aerolineas Argentinas It has routes between Argentina and the United States. Surgery is the reason that, they say, keeps him in the United States.

The complaints that led to his arrest warrant are of Cecilia Torres, his ex-partner, and they date from 2017 and 2018. At the beginning of 2017 he denounced him for “mistreatment and punches to the face” and in 2018 for “qualified minor injuries and theft”.

Carlos nayi, the woman’s attorney, argued that Cabrera “violated several restraining orders” that had been imposed on him during the investigation of the case. When he traveled to the United States to play tournaments on the PGA Tour veterans circuit, he had to appear shortly after to testify on that issue. For Nayi the surgery is another “excuse” to stay free and “evade” Justice.