They asked psychiatric skills to Pity Alvarez: "The abstinence that he has is very deep"

Cristian "Pity" Álvarez appealed the indictment and the arrest against him for "aggravated homicide for the use of a firearm "against a neighbor, Cristian Díaz, that he shot with four bullets. Santiago Ottaviano, his official defender, also requested that be subjected to psychiatric tests.

In the televised statements, the legal representative of the musician's family, on the other hand, talked about the addictions that Alvarez a. "Abstinence hits him very hard" Claudio Calabresi said. The lawyer confirmed that the singer is in the official program Prisma, in the prison of Ezeiza.

"Recovery from a disease like that of Álvarez is very complex, and professionals who collaborate with me have said that it was very difficult to treat, because you can not focus on a certain drug, since it is polyadicto must diversify the medical strategy to be able to tackle this lack of consumption of different drugs, "he added.

Calabresi said he was in contact with Ottaviano, the official defender "from day one". Thus, it differed from the lawyer who delivered Alvarez to the police station, one day after the crime: "Sebastián Queijeiro never badumed the defense of pity"

Queijeiro, the lawyer who accompanied him four years ago and half, had explained that he was giving up the defense since the musician was not able to sign a document. Despite this, he visited him several times in prison, because he had the authorization of the Prison Service to do it.

On the morning of July 13, Álvarez went to the police station of Villa Lugano. In front of the media, he confessed to killing Cristian Díaz, although he claimed that he had done so in self-defense. "It was him or me," he said. A few hours later, he refused to testify in court and was transferred to a psychiatric ward in Ezeiza Prison, where he remains in detention.