Máximo Thomsen
, the most complicated of the rugbiers who beat
Fernando Báez Sosa
to death , broke the silence this Monday on the eleventh day of the oral trial for the crime at the exit of the Le Brique nightclub in Villa Gesell.
The union leader of the rugby group spoke just after his mother, Rosalía Zárate, testified as a witness.
During the testimony of the woman, who said that she has cancer, mother and son broke up.
Thomsen came to the chair to speak in front of the judges still tearful.
He first apologized and assured that he never intended to kill anyone.
He said that before going to the bowling alley they were already "half blown" and that inside Le Brique there were many people and jostling.
It's all part of
a strategy
.
The defense of the rugbiers, in charge of the lawyer Hugo Tomei, knows that it is impossible for the most committed to escape a murder conviction.
But one thing is a life sentence (35 years) to one for
homicide in a fight that has a maximum of 6.
Thomsen wanted to sell the judges two things.
One is the human side of him.
The son who breaks down when his mother cries.
The young man who was on vacation, had gone out dancing with his friends, beat and kicked another boy to death on the head on the floor but he really didn't want to do it.
An attempt to show what they did in three years or in ten hearings of the oral trial.
The second thing Thomsen came out to sell is Tomei's strategy.
That in the trial in which only everything that was known about the brutal beating of Fernando was confirmed, they begin to talk about a
fight
and a
defense against an attack
.
And question the "plan to kill."
"I see that one of my friends was about to get into a circle of unknown people. I run after him and say 'they are going to
fight
'. And they hit me in the face with a pineapple. The first thing I do is
defend
myself by kicking. But never in life with the intention of killing someone," said the former CASI.
Thomsen acknowledges the homicide.
He admits that the bloody shoe, the one that marked Fernando's face, is his.
But he didn't know who he hit.
The words
fight
and
hit
were repeated during several passages of his story.
“I feel that someone put their hand on my chest, I turn around thinking that he was going to
hit
me and it was a friend, he says 'enough'.
I looked to the side and nobody was
hitting
, I turn around again to see if I see all my friends and I'm leaving," said Thomsen about how the attack on Fernando ended.
And the same concept already appears at home: "When the others arrived, they began to comment on the
fight
. Another of the boys says 'I think it ended badly' and I say 'no, like, they were seconds'. For me it had been a
fight
, it was the blink of an eye."
This is the second time that a rugby player has come out to speak unexpectedly.
On Thursday Luciano Pertossi did it.
"I want to clarify something: I was not there," he said when a video was broadcast and tried to doubt that he was the one with the images.
Two patterns are repeated in the interventions of Pertossi and Thomsen.
The surprise factor and the attitude of only talking about themselves and not about others.
These are the resources of the defense to try to complicate a trial that, at least for public opinion, the accusation and the complaint was easily heading to a life sentence.
Thomsen did not choose any moment to speak.
He sought to capitalize on the drama that his mother related and perhaps in this way move the court.
And the next round of witnesses, which has now been postponed for one day due to everything that happened this Monday, promises to put him back as the protagonist with the statement of José María Ventura, Pablo Ventura's father, the rower whom Thomsen wanted to dirty and had no nothing to see
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