Miami Police released a video recorded by the security cameras of the Bal Harbour building which shows the moment when Juan Pablo Cartes, the eldest son of Paraguay's President, attacks a French national.
According to information published by El Nuevo Herald, the events took place last Sunday, October 20 during a party that Pablo Cartes organized in the building in which he lived in. Two of the guests left, but shortly after one of them entered the building again and that's when Horacio Cartes' eldest son, shirtless and apparently drunk, attacked the man.
The video released yesterday shows the exact moment of the assault, for which Cartes spent two hours in jail in the early morning of Sunday, and pay a fine of $1,500, reported then newspaper Vanguardia.
28-year-old Juan Pablo Cartes is the resident of a luxurious condo in the St. Regis resort, in Miami, where he is currently getting a degree.
The video shows how Cartes pushes and punches his guest until he kicks him out of the building, when a second guest tried to stop the fight on the sidewalk of the St. Regis, and the son of the Paraguayan President returns to the lobby, when a young woman tries to stop him by holding onto his back.
Miami police authorities revealed that the two men in the video are French tourists, and said that the assaulted man's name is John Phillipe Alfred who moments before had an argument with Cartes during the party.
The government of Paraguay emitted an official statement in which it laments the incident and detailed that Cartes is in the United States to get a degree.
However, El Nuevo Herald reports that the police report indicates that Pablo Cartes is only taking courses in English as a second language.
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