The arguments of the trial for the
crime of Fernando Báez Sosa
begin this Wednesday with the presentation of the prosecutors and the lawyers of the victim's family.
They will give their foundations in relation to the convictions and sentences that they will request for the eight rugby players accused of the homicide.
On Thursday it will be the defense's turn.
The two days can be followed live on YouTube.
I followed Clarín
's minute-by-minute coverage .
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24.01.2023 15:25
15:25
"In this case, justice is jail for life", Burlando's harsh message hours after the allegations
24.01.2023 14:43
2:43 p.m.
The judges who will define the sentence
Judge María Claudia Castro arrives in court.
Photo: Andres D'Elia
The court that will rule in the trial for the death of Fernando Báez Sosa, who was murdered on January 18, 2020, when a group of rugby players beat him at the exit of the Le Brique de Villa Gesell nightclub, is presided over by the judge
Maria Claudia Castro
.
The magistrate will be accompanied, as happened since the beginning of the hearings on January 2, by the vice president of the Court ,
Christian Rabaia
, and the member
Emiliano Lazzari
.
24.01.2023 14:43
2:43 p.m.
The video in which Cinalli identified himself and that could complicate it
24.01.2023 14:20
2:20 p.m.
exculpatory versions
The eight rugby players accused of Fernando's crime.
Five of the defendants gave their
exculpatory versions
to the Court.
First
Luciano Pertossi
.
"I'm not there," he contradicted himself in a video.
Then
Máximo Thomsen
: he broke down, he said that it was actually him who was given a pineapple, and he defended himself by kicking.
The other three were
Ciro Pertossi
("I stopped the kick when I saw that the boy was unconscious"),
Lucas Pertossi
("I never participated in an assassination plan, I just went on vacation") and
Blas Cinalli
, who ended up being located in the scene.
For all of them, it was "a fight", not "an ambush", as the prosecution maintains and Fernando's friends described.
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24.01.2023 13:54
13:54
Two hours of recreation in the prison, waiting for the visit of relatives
Penitentiary 6 of Dolores.
Photo: German Garcia Adrasti
As usual every afternoon, the eight defendants have two hours of recreation available in the courtyard of Penal Unit 6 of Dolores of the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service (SPB), while they await the visit of their parents in jail tomorrow.
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.
24.01.2023 13:20
1:20 p.m.
Waiting for the allegations, flags and posters at the door of the Dolores Prosecutor's Office
Photo: German Garcia Adrasti
Photo: German Garcia Adrasti
Photo: German Garcia Adrasti
Photo: German Garcia Adrasti
24.01.2023 12:31
12:31 p.m.
Enzo Comelli and the first blow against Fernando
Juan Bautista Besuzzo (21), another of Fernando's friends, recounted the sequence of the attack and pointed to Máximo Thomsen as the person who kicked Báez Sosa when he was on the ground and
Enzo Comelli giving him the first blow
.
Comelli is another of the three rugbiers who did not speak during the trial hearings.
He was also identified by Juan Pedro Guarino - one of the friends of the rugby players who was there the night of the crime, but ended up dismissed - in the footage of the beating, along with Ayrton Viollaz, Ciro Pertossi and Máximo Thomsen.
24.01.2023 12:19
12:19 p.m.
Guillermo Villarreal
Ayrton Viollaz and a harangue that ended in a crime
In the second hearing, one of Fernando's friends, Santiago Corbo (22), targeted Ayrton Viollaz, whom he accused of being the one who gave the harangue to start the attack.
"I see a boy with half-slanted eyes and straight hair, who said
'he is now, he is now,'
" he said about the moments that the beating lasted, referring to Viollaz.
Another friend of the victim located him in the sequence of the fatal assault.
"I recognized one of them, in the front of a long car. White shirt. I remember his face at the time of the incident, I approached him, I said 'stop'. He threatened to hit me, but he didn't hit me It was Ayrton Viollaz".
And he described it as "a ferocious attack, without mercy, a lot of screaming, madness."
Lucas Begide, a friend of Fernando's, also accused him of hitting him while trying to stop the beating.
In this same sense was the testimony of the witness Bidonde, who said that he saw him "hitting the friends" of Fernando along with Benicelli.
It was also pointed out by Tomás Colazo -the friend of the rugby players who was not charged- in one of the videos of the attack.
24.01.2023 12:10
12:10
Matías Benicelli, with traces of Fernando on his clothes
Photo: Telam
One of the rugbiers who did not speak during the trial was Matías Benicelli (23).
One of the pieces of evidence that complicates it was presented on January 11, when he exposed the expert César Guida, from the Public Prosecutor's Office, who was in charge of comparing the genetic profiles of the accused with that of Báez Sosa.
The expert said that he found
Fernando Báez Sosa's DNA in the clothes of 4 defendants
.
Three of them were Thomsen and the brothers Ciro and Luciano Pertossi.
The fourth was Benicelli: he had traces on a white flowered shirt, jeans and a sneaker.
In addition, he was recognized in the sequence of the deadly attack by one of the police officers who exposed him, as were Enzo Comelli and Ayrton Viollaz.
And a friend of the victim attributed the phrase
"let's see if you keep hitting, black shit"
, when Báez Sosa is already lying on the floor.
Finally, Tomás Bidonde identified Benicelli along with Ayrton Viollaz "hitting friends" of Fernando.
This information supports the argument of the complaint, that part of the group planted a "human wall" so that Báez Sosa would not receive help.
24.01.2023 11:44
11:44
Guillermo Villarreal
The three rugbiers who did not speak during the trial
Ayrton Viollaz, Matías Benicelli and Enzo Comelli
During the 13 hearings that the evidence presentation stage lasted,
five of the eight defendants took the floor
.
They did it to refute evidence against them, give their version of situations that complicated them or that had generated controversy - such as the audio of "Expired" - and try to hypothesize a fight and not an attack in numerical superiority.
They hardly answered questions.
The three who have not spoken so far were
Matías Benicelli (23), Ayrton Viollaz (23) and Enzo Comelli (22)
, despite the fact that during the judicial process they were pointed out at different times of the tragic night.
After the arguments, they will have the last chance to say a few words before the court defines whether to sentence them.
24.01.2023 11:15
11:15 a.m.
Fernando's mother will speak in "the last words": when and how will her speech be
Silvino Báez and Graciela Sosa, Fernando's parents.
Photo: Lucia Merle/Special Envoy
It is a right that the complaint has since the implementation of the Victims Law.
Graciela Sosa Osorio (56) will sit in the middle of the courtroom, alone, before the court, and she will speak.
She will be on Thursday, after the plea of Hugo Tomei, the defense attorney for the eight defendants.
It will be another strong moment.
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24.01.2023 10:35
10:35 a.m.
Burlando plans a plea with "the best technology available"
Tomorrow, after the allegation by prosecutors Juan Manuel Dávila and Gustavo García, it will be the turn of Fernando Burlando - a lawyer for the Baéz Sosa family - and his team.
According to what this newspaper was able to learn, what will be seen is a novelty: a multimedia presentation "with timely monitoring", the murder reconstructed with
"the best available technology
", a work of the lawsuit.
In the videos that will be shown in the room, each one of the rugbiers will be located at the crime scene.
24.01.2023 09:54
09:54
Fernando's parents stay in Dolores until they know the verdict
Silvino Báez (49) and Graciela Sosa Osorio (56), parents of Fernando Báez Sosa, will not return to Buenos Aires until they know the verdict of the trial for the crime of their son.
The decision of the judges will be known on January 31.
"We don't want revenge, we just want Justice and that he can rest in peace," said the mother of the murdered young man, during the ceremony that took place in Dolores for the third anniversary of the crime.
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24.01.2023 09:13
09:13
The verdict will be announced on the last day of January.
Sources consulted by
Clarín
affirmed that the verdict of the trial for the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa will be next Tuesday
, January 31
.
The judges of the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 1 of Dolores, made up of President María Claudia Castro, Christian Ariel Rabaia and Emiliano Lázzari, will decide the future of Máximo Thomsen (23), Luciano Pertossi (21), Ciro Pertossi (22 ), Lucas Pertossi (23), Ayrton Viollaz (23), Enzo Comelli (22), Matías Benicelli (23) and Blas Cinalli (21).
24.01.2023 08:30
08:30
Pleadings can be followed online
Posters in tribute to Fernando at the door of the Dolores Prosecutor's Office.
Photo: German Garcia Adrasti
As happened in the first hearing, on January 2, the arguments of the trial will be broadcast live.
It will be possible to follow the minute by minute through the
Youtube
channel of the Buenos Aires Supreme Court of Justice.
24.01.2023 08:15
08:15
What are the eight rugby players accused of?
The defendants, without a chinstrap during one of the hearings.
Photo: Maxi Failla
Both the Public Prosecutor's Office and Fernando's lawyers 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.
24.01.2023 08:05
08:05
tomorrow's arguments
Starting at 9, at the headquarters of the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 1 in Dolores, the arguments will begin with the presentation of the trial prosecutors, Juan Manuel Dávila and Gustavo García.
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.
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).
24.01.2023 08:00
08:00
Guillermo Villarreal
X-ray of a crime: the death of Fernando Báez Sosa, according to the trial
The trial comes to an end.
Tomorrow the allegations begin, the verdict is near and the fate of the group of friends of Zárate who will go down in Argentine criminal history as "the eight rugbiers" will be known.
Beyond the court's decision, the hearings already defined objective facts: the fatal injuries and where the defendants were in the beating.
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