Judge Alberto Julio Banos ordered the “immediate
detention” of Bieber and bodyguards Hugo Alcides Hesny and Terrence Reche
Smalls.
An email
sent to a Bieber representative was not immediately returned.
Bieber is
accused of sending the bodyguards to attack photographer Diego Pesoa outside a
Buenos Aires nightclub. Bieber never returned to Argentina to respond to
questions about the incident.
Under
Argentine law, Bieber would face from one month to six years in prison if
convicted on a charge of causing injuries.
It wasn't
immediately clear whether the warrant would extend beyond Argentina. Calls to
the judge's office Friday afternoon were not answered.
In
comments to local station Telefe Noticias, Pesoa's lawyer implied that the
warrant would force Bieber to return to the South American country.
“Now we
just need to wait for the police to find him and bring him” to Argentina, said
lawyer Matias Morla. “For us, this is a triumph against all those who said this
case was a bluff and that we didn't have anything.”
Calls and
emails to Morla were noAn Argentine judge has issued an arrest warrant for
Justin Bieber on Friday, saying the singer failed to respond to summons related
to allegations he ordered bodyguards to attack a photographer in 2013.
Judge
Alberto Julio Banos ordered the “immediate detention” of Bieber and bodyguards
Hugo Alcides Hesny and Terrence Reche Smalls.
Morla and
Bieber's representative did not respond to contact from AP.
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