The receptionist of a hotel in Villa Gesell that is located on the same block as the Le Brique bowling alley, at whose door they beat to death Fernando Baez Sosa in January 2020, declared this Friday that she heard one of the aggressors say “I broke her entire face, you saw” and “I filled her face with blood”, while they passed in front of her along with other young people “laughing, celebrating among themselves, everyone”.
“Everyone felt they were participating in that celebration,” said Andrea Ranno when declaring before the Oral Criminal Court 1 of Dolores, who added that the rugbiers “came very exalted, very happy, very happy and happy.” In a section of her statement, when she reproduced the texts of the aggressor she heard, the witness looked at Fernando’s parents sitting in the room and asked them for forgiveness, she explained. telam.
Ranno, who was at his post that morning at the “Inti Huasi” hotel, located half a block from “Le Brique”, said that minutes after the attack on Báez Sosa he saw at least eight rugby players go by, so when the personnel from the Departmental Investigations Delegation spoke with the police. Of the rugby players, Ranno said that one “had a torn black shirt, wild hair” who walked “forward” and “wildly, firmly, head down, as if blind.”
He recognized that young man moments later in one of the two videos that were shown in the courtroom and it turned out to be Máximo Thomsen. “That kid was taken out,” the witness added in this regard. In the same videos, the woman recognized one of the aggressors as one “little blond, who had a shiny shirt that drew attention” and who turned out to be Matías Benicelli.
Upon leaving the courts, the receptionist reiterated to the press the phrases she heard from the attackers and said that at first she thought that “they were going to hit (another person) who was coming ahead.” She then added: “They were celebrating because they had all participated in the fight. They were celebrating that sequence.” The hotel employee also said that she “behaved badly in court” because she got angry “with the daring lawyer” of the rugby players, Hugo Tomei, who told her that “it did not coincide” with what she stated this Friday with what she said in her time with the police.
In this regard, the woman recounted that at the hearing she told Tomei: “Sir, I am not lying, if you read what I declared, I declared exactly the same thing.” In addition, she commented that she apologized to Fernando’s parents because she had to say in front of them “that they were celebrating.” “He is their son and you are telling how they killed him. I apologized because it is like killing the son in front of them again,” she said.
