Leandro Luis Tulia, accused of abuse for at least four womenincluding the Olympic medalist in Paris 2024 Eugenia Bosco, was arrested on Monday in Vicente López. The 27 -year -old from Buenos Aires, denounced him last January for an episode that allegedly passed when she was 12.
The arrest was made by the DDI of the province of Buenos Aires in Avenida del Libertador to 2,800, a few hundred meters from the Yacht Club de Olivos where he taught.
The athlete who won the Silver Medal in the Class Class 17 of Vela in the last Olympic Games with Mateo Majdalani and who was a bearer of the Argentine delegation at the closing ceremony of that competition made the complaint in the specialized fiscal unit (UFE) in gender violence of Vicente López, in charge of Lida Osores Soler.
From your presentation, At least three more women They approached spontaneously to tell similar episodes that lived with the same person, who was licensed from his position by the Yacht Club, with salary enjoyment.
Bosco revealed his case in an interview with The nation. “It happened when I was very small, that is, when I was sailing in Optimist. I don’t know how to explain it, but It was something that happened, I didn’t control it, I was 11 or 12 years old And I left it from my life until a couple of years ago that I could see it, working obviously and with people accompanying me, ”he said.
In that sense, he added: “I could return to my mind and started another process. I knew there was something in me, I didn’t know where it came from, but I knew there was something. And when this came I began to understand a lot of things. “
“It is an age when you start qualifying to championships, to travel alone, to have a group where you mix a lot,” said the athlete who It came from San Pedro “every weekend”sometimes with his brother Santiago, two years old and with which he played a World Cup in 29er, another youth category, and sometimes alone.
Tula was in charge of teaching at the Yacht Club de Olivos for two decades and even lived within its facilities. AND During the weekends, some students stayed to sleep To optimize learning time.
“We were a large group that stayed to sleep in the same place, All under the care of this person. It was a small world, ”Bosco graphic.
The subsequent complaints of three other women delivered details that would involve From massages to unseeled touching.
“I went through a thousand stages of shame, of not accepting it, of think that I was the culprit. After a while I put it on the table and said: ‘I was a girl, I didn’t have control of this situation, “Bosco lamented.
At the time of the complaint, Tula’s lawyer, Daniel Marino Mazzocchini, denied the facts and said his client was innocent.
“They date from a long time, they are prescribed, so it will naturally develop in a dismissal. They are not abuses that magazine a sufficient entity to generate a scandal, ”he said at that time at the same medium.
Now, after his arrest, Tula will be investigated by prosecutor Osores Soler.