“I want to apologize mainly because never in my life would it have occurred to me to kill someone“, said maximum thomsen before the Oral Criminal Court No. 1 seconds after his mother, Rosalia Zarate, summoned to testify as a witness on day number eleven, withdrew from the room. After two years and ten months of silence, and listening to her mother cry for almost eight minutes, the most complicated of those accused of the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa, first he dried his tears and then declared.
Although it was not confirmed by his lawyer, Hugo TomeiFrom early on there was speculation about the possibility of a statement from him. “She was looking for the moment to speak and, after listening to his mother, he decided to do it. wanted to vent”, they entrusted to infobae from his circle.
During the statements of Juan Pedro Guarinoone of the two dismissed, and of TICthe young man from Zárate pointed out as the “rugby player number 11”Thomsen made several signs to his defender. In those moments Tomei approached him to exchange dialogue squatting and listening to him. Supposedly, the word of his mother served to pave the way.
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The last time Thomsen testified before the Court was on February 19, 2020. That day the defendant refused to answer the questions asked by the prosecutor. Veronica Zamboni about Fernando’s murder. “No (I’m going to answer) because I don’t trust the prosecutor because we were lied to from day one. I will submit a brief“, said.
In March 2022, like the rest of the eight defendants detained at Warden No. 3 of Melchor Romero in La Plata, Thomsen refused to submit to psychological and psychiatric tests. “I do not feel comfortable or safe in making an evaluation due to the fact that many of my private things have already been violated and I do not want it to happen again”, he maintained before the official experts and the expert proposed by the defense, Augustine Costa Shaw.
This Monday, although he asked to declare, the strategy was not very different. He limited himself to giving his version of the facts and, each time he was asked about the rest of the defendants, he answered with the same phrase: “I will not answer for someone else”.
It was 5:29 p.m. when Rosalia Zarate, the mother of Máximo Thomsen, entered the room to testify as a “concept witness”. The woman by profession, an architect, who served as Secretary of Public Works for the city of Zárate until the time of the crime, had arrived at the Palace of Courts in Dolores at 9:15 a.m., in the company of her son, Francisco.
His testimony before judges María Claudia Castro, Christian Rabaia and Emiliano Lázzari lasted eight minutes in which he reviewed what his son’s life was like until January 18, 2020. “What he loved the most was doing sports. His father and I separated when he was six years old. was always my partner“, held.
She also said that, for two years, she has been ill with cancer and who is undergoing treatment. “There were many insults, I began to feel worse and worse, more and more anguished, and then I got sick.. I did not want to leave my house. Until one day I couldn’t take the pain anymore and I went to attend to it. They did a study on me and they told me that I had something wrong. Then they referred me to a doctor who told me I had cancer. I had surgery, I had x-rays and chemotherapy. I’m still in treatment, I left it to be able to come here. The only thing I do is leave my house to go see my son in prison and go to the doctor. This is how (I am) two years ago, ”Zárate explained through tears.
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And he closed with a desperate request: “I can not anymore. I can’t keep coping with all this. It’s a nightmare”.
Hearing his mother from the second row of the bench, Thomsen, who until then had been upright in his chair and looking straight ahead, fell apart in the seat. With your eyes on the ground, and holding your nose with your index finger and thumb, the rugby player cried. Then she asked to testify.
By that time, Fernando Báez Sosa’s parents were no longer in the room: they had left a while before.
“I heard various things about myself over several years. Things in which I did not recognize myself because they generated so much hatred towards me. I would never in life have the intention of killing someone. It is something that I would never have looked for in my life.. I wanted to take advantage of today, in this place, to tell the reality of what happened that day, that night”, Thomsen started and gave his version of what happened that morning of January 18, 2020 in Villa Gesell.
Here are some excerpts from his statement:
“We went to Le Brique around three or four in the morning because we didn’t want to miss the artist’s show (Neo Pistea). There were a lot of people: you had to move with the tide of people. We went to the bar, the one on the right side, and we stayed there. I don’t think I ever took out my cell phone because I didn’t want to lose it. We were having a drink with a friend and meeting a girl. I remember that there was so much movement that your glass overturned. I decided to stand against the bar: while my friend and the girl drank, I covered them so they wouldn’t spill their drinks”.
“At one point I said: ‘Enough of pushing’ and I felt that someone answered me: ‘We are all in the same one.’ I turned around and it was a friend who had a ‘bump’. When I asked him what had happened to him (the patovicas) they grabbed him from behind and lifted him up by the neck. When they saw that I was a friend of theirs, they wanted to take me out too.”
“In desperation I asked him (the patovica) to explain why he wanted to expel me. There they grabbed me from behind and crossed my arm, I felt strong pressure: I was suffocating. ‘Take him to the kitchen, we’ll screw him up,’ I heard them say. When I went through the corridor, two pineapples hit me in the ribs and, in the end, they took me out. I kept insulting the bowling alley because I just wanted to go back in. ‘That’s it. Go away and come again tomorrow’the security man told me.
About what happened when leaving Le Brique, Máximo Thomsen recounted:
“I turned and saw that the boys were crossing. I saw that one of my friends was about to join a circle of unknown people. That’s when I ran after him: I thought they were going to fight. They hit me in the face with a pineapple and I reacted by kicking. I don’t know who or how. I’m sure I kicked twice, but never in my life with the intent to kill.”
“At one point I felt that someone put their hand on my chest and it was a friend and told me: ‘Enough’ and I just stood there. I looked to the side, I saw that nobody was hitting, I turned and left. I got home, I think I got there first, and I put on comfortable clothes because my shirt was torn. When the others arrived they began to comment on the fight. At the end another of the guys came and told me: ‘I think (the fight) ended badly.’ I told him: ‘How could ours have been if they were seconds?’. Someone told me to go eat at McDonald’s and, since my main idea was that, I think I went with Lucas and then went back to sleep. For me the fight was the blink of an eye”.
“The next day I found out what had happened. When we were all in the apartment (the police) told us: ‘Do you know why you are here? You killed a kid. That’s when everything started spinning in my head and I started to vomit, but I I didn’t believe it until the next day, my head couldn’t process it because I didn’t understand it”.
At the end of his statement, when consulted by the prosecution, Máximo Thomsen identified his black cyclone brand shoes, whose sole was stamped on the face of Fernando Báez Sosa.
“They are mine”, he said and claimed to have used them on January 18, 2020.
When Fernando Burlando wanted to question him, Thomsen refused. “I don’t feel comfortable responding to a person who said a lot of barbaric things about me and who insulted my mom.”
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