Fried cakes and mates, packed suitcase and return to Buenos Aires with the expectation that the Court "do Justice and Fernando has some peace."
Graciela and Silvino, the parents of the boy murdered three years ago in Gesell, left Dolores this Friday, which little by little resumes its pulse as a town of siesta and calm.
Belgrano Avenue remains closed to traffic and fenced from corner to corner, with police security, just like Riobamba Street, the one in Penitentiary Unit No. 6 where the eight rugby players were housed since the first day of this year.
There,
in the so-called "mailboxes", isolation and punishment cells that function for them as a warden, they will remain awaiting the verdict that defines their destinations.
Their relatives also left the city.
Some settled in a neighborhood that overlooks Route 63, which leads to Pinamar, and others arrived for certain dates.
The last hearings, in which the allegations were heard, were all present.
Graciela and Silvino did return to their home in Buenos Aires this Friday. They had not moved from Dolores since the start of the trial.
Photo: German Garcia Adrasti
They had also gone to Zárate in the impasse that occurred between the end of the evidentiary stage of the debate, and the days of allegations, to which they arrived escorted by the Police, the same at the exit.
The comfortable team of Fernando Burlando also left town this Friday, because it is not only made up of the lawyers representing Graciela and Silvino, Fabián and Facundo Améndola, father and son, and Germán Facio;
between collaborators and young professionals, the endowment adds up to a dozen people.
A few TV camera tripods were still standing on the corner of the charming court building, some journalists were still hanging around the area.
But the weekend will definitely be what every January day here tends to be, hot and balmy, although in recent years the town has gained some tourist traffic for its brand new hot spring parks.
The trial takes place in Dolores, but is followed throughout the country.
There have already been 13 hearings in the first part and two days of allegations.
Photo: German Garcia Adrasti
"They were very stressful days
," a person close to the Oral Criminal Court 1 in Dolores told this chronicler, who did not neglect organizational details.
The presiding judge, María Claudia Castro, was blunt when at the slightest crossover she should have channeled one of the parties into the debate.
A week after the verdict, the closure of the evidentiary stage and the allegations without any type of incident having been recorded, both inside and outside the Court, brought them some relief, some relief after so much tension, not only for the judicial also those who dealt with security.
It is unknown if the reading of the verdict, scheduled for 1:00 p.m. on February 6, will be followed by the sentence.
When announcing the closure of the debate after the words of the eight defendants, which led to the failed request for an apology to the family of Fernando Báez Sosa, the judge spoke of "the eventual" sentence.
The eight defendants were kept in Unit 6 of the SPB, in Dolores.
They will stay there all week until the verdict.
That is to say that the foundations of the Court, which will also carry the votes of judges Christian Rabbaia and Emiliano Lazzari, could well be known days after the sentence is handed down.
But there will be a verdict and it will be read in the same courtroom on the first floor, which overlooks Belgrano, where the eight young men from Zárate are now being tried.
There,
24 years ago, Judge Castro occupied the same position that Burlando occupies today
: in December 1999, she had just taken office as investigating prosecutor and was part of the team of investigators that brought forward the accusation against -coincidentally- the eight defendants for the crime José Luis Cabezas.
The place where Castro sits was occupied then by judge José Luis Macchi, and the one occupied today by the rugby players' lawyer, Hugo Tomei, the defense lawyer, was held in those days by a young Fernando Burlando.
It was, together with his former partner Juan Martín Cerolini, who defended "Los horneros", who were convicted of the murder of the photographer.
"Don't forget Cabezas", said then the brochures and posters that were displayed on the fronts of the shops around Plaza Castelli, as now also on trees and lighting columns, and on the fence in front of the Court, which has candles and hung some rosary, with black and white photos of Fernando Báez Sosa smiling, and the request for Justice in his name was ensigned.
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