The trial continues against the eight rugbiers accused of beating to death Fernando Sosa Baezthe 18-year-old boy who lost his life at the door of a nightclub Villa Gesell on January 18, 2020. For this day, experts and members of the Scientific Police are summoned.
Judicial spokesmen indicated that in the hearing on Wednesday the 11th, for their part, Forensics and Federal Police personnel will declare that they carried out different expert reports requested by the prosecutor’s officeamong others. On Thursday they will be made effective by the Villa Gesell SubDDI, a friend of the rower Paul Ventura, initially incriminated in the fact; experts who swabbed the defendants and judicial officials.
The second week of testimonies will close with the testimony of witnesses to the alleged confrontation that occurred inside the bowling alley before both groups were expelled, and teachers and relatives of Báez Sosa.
Last week, 47 witnesses testified, and the defendants Máximo Thomsen, Luciano and Ciro Pertossi, Enzo Comelli and Matías Benicelli They were identified as direct attackers of the victim, while two other rugby players, Lucas Pertossi and Ayrton Viollazwere located among those who harangued or beat up his friends who tried to defend him.
On Monday, the statement of the coroner who performed the autopsy on him, Fernando, who died after the brutal beating suffered at the exit of the Le Brique nightclub, stood out. Two of the main testimonies were that of the ambulance doctor who attended the young man after the attack and that of the coroner who performed the autopsy on the body, who said that the injuries “more important” they were in the brain. At the same time, He confirmed that he had a shoe mark on his face and assured that he had “never” seen “nothing like it”.
Carolina Giribaldi Larrosaa member of the emergency team that assisted the victim, explained before the Oral Criminal Court 1 of Dolores, that “he had no vital signs” when they arrived at the scene of the attack, and that he had “mydriatic (dilated) pupils, he had no reflexes, no respiratory movements, and no pulse”.
The doctor specified that “unfortunately there was no response” of Báez Sosa in view of the assistance received, and assured that in her 18 years as an emergency physician she had never seen “the death of a person as a result of CPR compression maneuvers” like the ones they did. In addition, the doctor came across an idea that she sought to debate the defense of rugby players and she ruled out that “The resuscitation has caused the death of Báez Sosa”.
Meanwhile, the Scientific Police doctor, Diego Duartewho performed the autopsy on the body at the Hospital de Pinamar, declared that it presented “multiple lesions in the area of the right jaw”, “hemorrhage in the brain and cerebellum” and “bleeds and bruises.”
This harsh panorama that the professional drew made Fernando’s parents withdraw for a few minutes from the main room. While powerful images of the body were shown on a screen, taken during the autopsy, the parents were not in the courtroom.
A counterpoint in the day was when the prosecution asked to incorporate photos of Duarte’s cell phone into the case, but the defense of the rugby players opposed it. Finally, the court did not take place, so the images were not added.
In his testimony, Duarte assured that the body “did not show bone damage,” but that the blows were sufficient and decisive to cause “a stroke.” And he added: “The victim had most of the blows to the face and skull. They are vital areas”.
It was there that Fabian Amendola, a lawyer for the Báez Sosa family, asked if Fernando could have survived if that beating occurred at the door of a hospital. The expert’s response was decisive, “no”.
After a fourth intermission, in which the lawyer Fernando Burlando confirmed that the young man had died at 5:07 and not 6 in the morning, that is, in the place of the beating and without the possibility of resuscitating him, declared Patricia Liliana Gomezthe doctor who treated the defendants. “I checked on (Enzo) Comelli, (Maximo) Thomsen and three Pertossi guys (Lucas, Luciano and Ciro)”he said, adding that they all presented “minor injuries”.
Then it was the turn of Silvana of Pieroan expert from the Scientific Police of the Forensic Pathology department, who explained what his work was in this case. “We received samples that come from the autopsy”detailed and maintained that they analyzed a “pool of viscera” from the victim, which included the liver, spleen, lung, heart, brain and cerebellum.
The police Javier CollovaMeanwhile, he had a brief testimony and certified that the videos sent by the Prosecutor’s Office “are real.” while the policeman Ramon Ruedaassured that Thomsen “made an intimidating sign at Báez Sosa while he was inside Le Brique.”
Finally, he declared Javier Pablo Laborde, Secretary of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, who analyzed the cell phones and some videos in the instruction. After that came the end of this day.
Once on the sidewalk of the place where the trial is taking place, Burlando spoke about the images that were shown at the hearing and assured: “They already knew that they had killed a person and they are sticking out their tongues and laughing. When instead of asking for help to save another, he returns home, changes to camouflage himself and goes to eat fast food and makes jokes… there was awareness and it is what allows us to talk about fraud, there is no doubt. He talks about the intent to kill ”.
Likewise, he said that there should be no difference in the sentence of the defendants, beyond each role at the crime scene. “There is no difference in the penalty. Here everyone participated. If you are going to consider in a qualified homicide that a person who prevented his life from being beaten and with the same savage attitude as the murderer himself, you are going to consider that it is a different situation, we are all crazy and let’s move from Argentina “, he remarked. And he added: “Each hit was a shot. We have 7 cm cuts, wounds to the large intestine… internal blows, all the blows. They were shots, worse.
As occurred during the first week of the trial, the statements were witnessed by the eight defendants, maximum thomsen (23), Enzo Comelli (22), Matias Benicelli (23), Blah cinalli (twenty-one), Ayrton violent (23), and Luciano (twenty-one), Cyrus (22) and Luke Pertossi (23), who for the first time since the beginning of the oral debate changed their locations on the two benches they occupy inside the courtroom and showed themselves without masks.
