Monday, February 6, will be a key date for the clarification of the case of Fernando Báez Sosa, the 18-year-old boy who died after receiving a brutal beating by a group of young people outside the Le Brique nightclub in Villa Gesell, in the summer of 2022. It is that on that day, the Oral Criminal Court 1 of Dolores must announce the ruling that will fall on the eight defendants for the death of Fernando. As is known, the prosecution and the accusing party requested life imprisonment, while the defense of those involved requested the acquittal and annulment of the case.
One of the three judges of the court that must decide the situation of the accused is Emiliano Javier Lázzari, a native of La Plata. Lázzari settled in Dolores a long time ago for reasons strictly related to his profession. In 2017, based on the opening of a vacancy, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Province of Buenos Aires appointed him in the courts of that city, located about 200 kilometers from the Buenos Aires capital.
In the case of Fernando, Lázzari is the third judge on the court, which is also made up of its president, María Claudia Castro, and its vice president, Christian Rabaia, who took office in 2018.
His designation was by lottery, because he is part of the Body of Magistrates of the Highest Court of Buenos Aires, which is used to cover places that are free due to the absence of the titular judges, whatever the judicial instance.
Lázzari was born, raised and studied in La Plata, where he lived in the La Loma neighborhood. He is also a fan of Estudiantes. As her life partner, with whom she married, she is a native of Rosario. Those who know him say that his profession led him to move to Dolores.
Lázzari, from La Plata, will be one of the three judges who will decide the situation of the defendants on February 6.
The eight accused of killing Báez Sosa in the early morning of January 18, 2020 in front of the Le Brique nightclub are charged with the crime of “double aggravated homicide due to treachery and the premeditated competition of two or more people”, and are serving preventive detention in Alcaidía 3 of the Melchor Romero prison.
The trial also debates the criminal responsibilities of all of them for the injuries suffered by five of Fernando’s friends, who were with him when he was assassinated.
According to the investigation, the eight young people who will be tried “agreed to kill” the young law student, and for this “previously, they functionally distributed their roles”, after “minutes before, when they were inside the dance hall, they had an altercation” with him, “who was accompanied by his group of friends.
The defense of those accused of the crime by lawyer Hugo Tomei, on the other hand, considered that the defendants should “be acquitted” in the trial due to the “inconsistency” between the trial and the accusation in the allegations and requested that Otherwise, they are convicted of the crime of “homicide in a fight”, which provides for a maximum sentence of six years in prison.
