Defining stage.
This week will be key to determine whether or not a sentence is reached against the eight defendants for the murder of
Fernando Báez Sosa (18)
in the courts of Dolores.
After the completion of the hearings corresponding to the presentation of evidence and witnesses, next Wednesday and Thursday will be the arguments of the trial.
The prosecution, the individual victim and the defense will present their foundations in relation to the convictions and sentences that they will request for the rugby players.
Judicial sources confirmed to
Télam
that next Wednesday, starting at 9 o'clock, at the headquarters of the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 1 in Dolores, the allegations will begin with the presentation of the trial prosecutors, Juan Manuel Dávila and Gustavo García.
Third anniversary of the assassination of Fernando Báez Sosa, with an interreligious mass in the Dolores amphitheater.
Photo Lucia Merle/Special Envoy.
During the same day, the lawyers Fernando Burlando, Fabián Améndola and Facundo Améndola, representatives of the parents of Báez Sosa, Silvino Báez (49) and Graciela Sosa Osorio (56), will also present their foundations.
Both the Public Prosecutor's Office and the lawyers for the individual victim announced that they will continue with the accusation with which the case was brought to trial and in which the eight defendants are considered responsible for the crime of "
aggravated homicide due to treachery and the premeditated concurrence of two or more people
", which provides for a life sentence, and "
injuries
", in relation to the attacks suffered by friends of Fernando.
For its part, on Thursday it will be the turn of the technical defense, in charge of the lawyer Hugo Tomei, representative of the defendants Máximo Thomsen (23), Enzo Comelli (22), Matías Benicelli (23), Blas Cinalli (21), Ayrton Viollaz (23), and Luciano (21), Ciro (22) and Lucas Pertossi (23).
The defendants, face clean.
Photo Maxi Failla
Tomei's strategy outlined during the oral debate was based on demonstrating that the crime of the young law student was in the context of a "
homicide in a fight or assault
", which according to article 95 of the Criminal Code provides for a penalty of between 2 to 6 years.
The eight defendants are expected to
use their right to last words
in front of judges María Claudia Castro, Christian Rabaia and Emiliano Lazzari.
During the testing stage, Lucas, Luciano and Ciro Pertossi, Máximo Thomsen and Blas Cinalli requested to testify.
Matías Benicelli, Ayrton Viollaz and Enzo Comelli chose not to.
trial prosecutors, Juan Manuel Dávila and Gustavo García.
Photo: Andres D'Elia.
Once the arguments and the last words of the defendants are finished, the TOC 1 judges will announce the date of the sentence, which is expected to be on Monday 30 or Tuesday 31 January.
The oral debate lasted through 13 days of presenting evidence and the testimony of 87 people, including relatives of the victim and the defendants, friends of Fernando, witnesses to the attack, police officers, doctors, firefighters, and health professionals. .
The eight defendants await the arguments housed in the mayor's office of Penal Unit 6 in Dolores, where they were transferred from the Melchor Romero prison on January 1, prior to the start of the trial.
Defense attorney Hugo Tomei and his colleague Emilia Pertossi, sister of two defendants and cousin of another.
Photo Maxi Failla.
On Wednesdays of each week they received a visit from their relatives, who also brought them merchandise and items for personal hygiene.
Last week the visit was suspended since it coincided with the date of the third anniversary of Fernando's crime and the relatives estimated that a mobilization to the prison could be carried out.
Graciela and Silvino, the parents of the murdered young man, await the allegations in the city of Dolores, where last Friday they distributed the merchandise that was donated during the interreligious act they held in tribute to their son on the anniversary of his murder.
The plaintiff lawyer Fernando Burlando, in Dolores.
Photo Maxi Failla.
According to one of the organizers of the collection, the donations were received in Dolores by eight picnic areas, homes for the elderly and children, clubs and the cooperative of the local San Roque hospital.
The donations received at the Marianista school in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito, which Fernando attended in high school, were also distributed in various places.
Báez Sosa was beaten and kicked to death outside the Le Brique nightclub, in Villa Gesell, in the early morning of January 18, 2020. He was an only child and had signed up to study law at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). .
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