On the first day of the trial against the eight rugby players accused of murdering Fernando Báez Sosa, the defendants’ lawyer, Hugo Tomei, announced that he will request suspension of debate. “They were sentenced without a prior trial. They were denied the chance to be heard,” he argued.
In a first hearing in which there were crosses between the lawyers Tomei and Fernando Burlando -who represents the Báez Sosa family-, and which required the intervention of Judge María Claudia Castro, the defense denounced that “there was no due legal process” at the time of accusing the defendants for “doubly aggravated homicide due to treachery and the premeditated cooperation of two or more people.”
The prosecution, for its part, recalled that the motion for annulment had already been rejected.
“We are going to show that the defendants They laid out a true human fence that night in order to be able to make sure they act safely and be certain that their prey was not going to be able to elude them, much less count on help, help that, we will also demonstrate, other people wanted to give them, but they could not get around the wall savage, the impassable wall that they built over the victim. We will prove that the crime committed was a plain and simple execution. That its authors were never willing to stop their actions until they saw their victim lifeless. We are going to demonstrate that in this macabre task, there was no involuntary excess: each applied blow had a destination and an end, which was to kill“, assured Burlando during his presentation. The lawyer announced that They will request life imprisonment for each of the defendants.
