Monday, January 16, 2023 | 9:18 p.m.
On January 2, the trial against the eight rugby players accused of the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa, who was 18 years old when he was beaten to death outside a nightclub in Villa Gesell, began in the Dolores Courts. The main revelations of the third week of hearings, both about what happened inside Le Brique and the final traffic at the exit of the nightclub.
Today, declares one of the dismissed rugby players in the case of Fernándo Báez Sosa
“I have come to help justice,” says Juan Pedro Guarino, one of the rugby players who was arrested and later dismissed; He arrived at the Dolores courts this Monday after 8:30 a.m. to give his statement.
Before entering, the young man who will testify today as a witness, was approached by the journalists who were at the scene and, although he did not want to answer questions, he assured that “he is coming to help justice.”
Implication of both testimonies in the case
“They will have to move within a very fine margin, between telling the truth and not harming their friends and not giving false testimony,” an official source speculated, in dialogue with Télam, about the “delicate” situation that Guarino and Milanesi will face. Before the court.
Who is the rugbier 11 that will declare today
Tomás Collazo is a friend of the eight rubgiers accused of the crime of Fernando Sosa. The lawyer for the victim’s family, Fernando Burlando, pointed him out as “suspect number 11”, but he was never part of the case.
At the time of the crime, he was a minor, he was 17 years old. According to the footage incorporated into the case, Collazo appears at various times on the night Fernando was murdered, however it was never proven that he was part of the attack.
Collazo participated in night outings with the rugby team, but he was not staying with them in the house they had rented for the holidays.
Although he was in the bowling alley on January 18, 2020, the night of the murder, he left “Le Brique” minutes later. Collazo then joins his colleagues, goes to the house and takes a photo with the group before Máximo Thomsen and Lucas Pertossi went to have breakfast at the fast food place.
Today he will testify as a witness, like Alejo Milanesi and Juan Pedro Guarino, the two young men dismissed in the case.
When and how is the pact of silence between rugbiers broken?
“Tonight was weird, I don’t feel well. The only thing I need is to have you in life, don’t stop making me the happiest kid in the world,” Guarino wrote in a message he sent to his girlfriend while he was eating at the fast food store, which shows that he was the The only one who expressed, at least, discomfort with what had just happened.
The message occurred at 6:21 in the morning, fifteen minutes after Ciro Pertossi declared the “pact of silence” in the WhatsApp group: “Guys, nothing of this is told to anyone.”
Although the young man upheld Tomei’s block defense agreement, ten days after the prosecutor Verónica Zamboni requested preventive detention for the eight accused rugby players and the cessation of detention for Milanesi and Guarino, the “released” appeared past two in the afternoon in the prosecutor’s office. “I want to testify but they won’t let me”would have been Guarino’s phrase at that time, which now becomes more relevant given the possibility of finally breaking the “pact of silence” between the accused.
