Wednesday, January 25, 2023 | 8:15 a.m.
As of today, the reading of the allegations for the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa will begin, in the final stage of the trial, which is taking place in the Buenos Aires city of Dolores, and with the corresponding request for sentencing for the eight accused rugby players. The penalties that correspond to each one will be announced from next week.
The first date was established for the Complaint and the Prosecutor’s Office: in this instance both parties seek to obtain an “exemplary sentence”, under the charge of “double aggravated homicide due to treachery and the premeditated competition of two or more people” for the eight rugbiers .
It is expected to be a long day, as the parties will release new details and the involvement of each of the defendants in the attack and subsequent murder. With this accusation, only life imprisonment is foreseen, so the young people will be imprisoned for 35 years.
Crime of Fernando Báez Sosa: when will the defense of rugby players speak
On Thursday the 26th, it will be the time for the defense of the eight rugbiers by Hugo Tomei, who will try to convince the Court that Fernando’s murder occurred during a fight, and in that case the charge would be for “homicide in a fight or assault”. , although it is not ruled out that he goes for “preterintentional homicide”.
Faced with this accusation, the sentence is reduced to a maximum of six years and a minimum of three, which would be a key range since the young people have been in prison since 2020 -with preventive detention-, which would allow them to be released.
Which of the rugbiers would be acquitted
Tomei will seek that at least one of the rugbiers is acquitted since he was not pointed out in almost none of the thirteen hearings that took place in the Oral Criminal Court 1 of Dolores. This is Ayrton Viollaz, another of the youngsters who has been in jail since the beginning.
Crime against Fernando Báez Sosa: where the allegations can be seen
Both the allegations and the sentence can be seen directly by the live stream that they will carry out from the YouTube channel of the Court of the province of Buenos Aires. Regarding the final sentence, the president of the Court, María Claudia Castro, will announce the exact date in the next few hours, although it is expected to be January 30 or 31.
“What happened in Gesell, was it a fight? Did Fernando die by accident? Was he not ambushed, cornered and executed? Can someone tell me that there was no plan, that it was a simple fight and that someone died by accident? For me, in this JUSTICE case, it is jail for life,” Fernando Burlando, lawyer for Silvino and Graciela, the victim’s parents, posted on his Twitter account.
The responsibility of each defendant in the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa
During the days of the oral trial, an attempt was made to verify the role played by each of the defendants in the crime. This was through the statements, expertise and videos obtained from security cameras and witnesses who recorded the attack.
maximum thomsen
He is the most complicated rugby player of the eight. During the trial, it was exposed that the print on Fernando’s face belongs to the shoe that the young man wore that morning. In addition, police officers who were at the raid confirmed that it was Thomsen who blamed Pablo Ventura for having participated in the crime.
In addition to these announcements, experts located him at the murder scene on several occasions and the victim’s DNA was also found on his clothing. Despite the fact that in his statement he expressed that he “never intended to kill” the Court knows that it is facing the most complicated person in the case.
Cyrus Pertossi
Like Thomsen, rugby player is considered another of the most involved. It is because he appears in all the videos hitting Fernando. In turn, seized garments have the victim’s DNA and experts also confirmed his presence at the scene.
The WhatsApp chats of the defendants were important since they show the conversations where most of them confirmed the attack and the subsequent crime, which generated a wave of commotion among those close to them who at all times asked if they were responsible: “We are fine everyone. Nothing happened, don’t worry.” It was confirmed that during the early morning the young man Googled “villa gesell pelea” seven times to find out if they had publicized the murder.
Blas Cinalli
From the beginning it was known that Fernando’s little finger had the young man’s DNA, but during the course of the 13 hearings it was sought to verify that his role in the crime was superior. Like Thomsen and Ciro Pertossi, he played a more than important role in the attack, since he hit the victim and also Fernando’s friends who wanted to defend him.
All the evidence obtained was presented before the Tribunal and in this sense it is wanted to demonstrate that Blas Cinalli was one of the predominant rugbiers in the group. “At no time did I hit Fernando Báez Sosa,” Cinalli said in his statement.
Luciano Pertosi
He was the first of the defendants to break the silence after three years. Although in a brief statement stating that he “was not there” in one of the videos, it was confirmed that he did hit Fernando.
Although the image is not the best, due to the characteristics announced by experts, they pointed out that the young man hit the victim when he was on the floor. Likewise, friends of Fernando indicated that Pertossi was involved in the attack on other young people at that time, which is why Burlando will seek to modify his role in the allegations.
Lucas Pertosi
The evidence shows that the young man hit Fernando’s friends and tried to prevent them from defending the victim who was lying on the floor. He is also the person who recorded the final kick with his cell phone and who sentenced the worst outcome, Fernando’s death.
Then it is the young man who is shown in a security camera video sending a WhatsApp audio to the group of rugby players confirming that Fernando had “expired”. Hours later, he was seen with Thomsen at the Mc’Donalds in the center of Villa Gesell as if nothing had happened.
“I am very bad for what happened and I am still bad, I was with psychiatric and psychological treatment, it affected us all a lot, I feel very sorry for what happened. At no time did I hit Fernando Báez Sosa, I did not touch him, at no time I participated in an assassination plan, I only went on vacation. I never had the intention of taking anyone’s life,” the young man concluded in his testimony.
Enzo Comelli
In most of the statements of witnesses and friends of Fernando, they located him at the crime scene attacking and beating him. In addition, as in the previous cases, experts confirmed his presence in the attack and murder. This allowed the complaint from the beginning to announce a predominant role for Comelli along with other defendants.
Matias Benicelli
Easy identification and seized clothing. Both tests were positive. Benicelli was in the attack and was a participant in Fernando’s crime. The victim’s blood was found on the clothing seized by the Police and in the videos obtained he could be seen beating. Even so, it is highlighted that the young man went in a particular way to attack Fernando’s friends.
Ayrton Violaz
For this last young man, the situation is a little more encouraging in the sense of his involvement in the cause. The tests confirmed that the rugby player was in the attack but fulfilled the role of hitting Fernando’s friends and haranguing the attack on the victim to continue. Given this prognosis, there is the possibility that Hugo Tomei requests the acquittal of the defendant or that the Court sentences him to a sentence for “minor injuries”.
