“I can't take it anymore,” Marset's wife denounces abuse in video call from Paraguayan prison

Gianina García Troche, considered to be the partner of alleged Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, publicly denounced a serious deterioration in her health and alleged mistreatment during her preventive detention in the Viñas Cué military prison in Asunción. In a video call broadcast on social media, the woman claimed that her life is in danger and called for “justice and medical attention” after seven months of confinement. "I am not seeking to be released or to be declared innocent. I turned myself in, I gave up my asylum, and I want you to see the conditions they are keeping me in,“ said García Troche, visibly affected. She reported that she suffered multiple seizures, has bruises all over her body, and, despite adverse medical reports, is being denied key tests such as an MRI. ”They are trying to kill me. I can't take it anymore," she said. According to her testimony, she was briefly hospitalized and removed from the medical center without completing 24 hours of observation, despite having a critical heart rate. She claimed that she had repeated seizures and that the tests performed show evidence of brain damage, information that she said is being concealed by the authorities. "They say I'm faking it. They don't know what it takes to survive in here,“ she said. García Troche said that her decision to turn herself in was motivated by her children and denied that she currently has a relationship with Marset. ”Since the day I turned myself in, I am no longer with him. “I lost my family, my children are suffering, and I have no explanation to give them,” he said. However, he acknowledged that he had been her partner and asked that his humanitarian situation be heard. The allegations came to light days after Paraguayan military authorities reported an attempt to smuggle a cell phone into his cell, hidden in a thermos during a family visit. The device was seized, and the incident led to questions about prison security. However, on Monday, García Troche herself made a video call with a cell phone from inside the detention center, violating security protocols. The woman has been in preventive detention since May, after being extradited from Spain, as part of the investigation into Operation ‘A Ultranza Py’, one of the largest actions against organized crime and money laundering in Paraguay. The prosecutor's office accuses her of allegedly introducing millions of dollars of illicit origin into the financial system through concealment mechanisms. While authorities evaluate possible sanctions for the attempt to bring the cell phone into the facility, García Troche's statements reopen the debate on detention conditions, access to medical care, and respect for the human rights of persons deprived of liberty in high-profile cases linked to organized crime.