Máximo Thomsen, one of the eight accused for the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa, broke the silence and asked to testify on the tenth day of the trial investigating the crime that occurred on January 18, 2020 at the door of a nightclub Villa Gesell. The person involved decided to speak after breaking down during the testimony of his mother, Rosalia Zarate.
Between tears, the rugby player accused of giving Fernando the fatal kick, said: “I want to apologize because never in my life would I have thought of killing someone. I heard various things about myself for several years. I did not recognize why they generated so much hatred towards me, I would never in life have that intention”.
In this sense, he added that “It is something that I would never have looked for in my life. It would never have been my intention in my life. I wanted today in this place to give the reality of what happened that day, that night”complete.
In his statement, he explained how he found out about the crime and recounted: “The next day I found out what had happened. When we were all on the floor (the Police) told us ‘Do you know why you are here? You killed a kid. Then he started spinning everything in my head and I started to vomit, but I didn’t believe it until the next day, my head couldn’t process it because I didn’t understand it”.
About the fight that ended in the fatal outcome, Thomsen recounted: “From what I saw in the videos walking with some of my friends. I had to watch the videos because of alcohol and suffocation (referring to the immobilizer key that they performed on him the patovicas to expel him from the brique) I did not remember. I looked to the side and saw a large group of guys like they were going to face off with my friends. When I get to the ring and it opens, I feel a blow to the face.”.
The prosecutor gustavo garcia He asked the rugby player if he could see who hit and who hit first and the defendant refused to answer. “Belongs to someone else”held.
Later, he was shown a video of the fight that he recorded Lucas Pertosi. “Who’s on the floor?” Garcia asked, to which Thomsen replied: “Are you asking me if today or at that time? Today from everything I saw I deduced that he is the victim”. And he added: “When I entered the round I received the blow and hit one or two kicks, I wouldn’t know who or how”.
García inquired if he kicked the person who was on the ground, to which Thomsen stated that “I don’t remember who I hit or how. At the time I was in shock with everything that had happened before and I got into that situation”.
In this context, the best-known video of the fight was shown to him and, again, the rugby player did not want to identify the other defendants. The prosecution asked him if there are people around outside his group. Thomsen replied: “That’s when I see that since there was no one else we left. I don’t have many good memories of that moment. I only remember that I saw a group of people and one of my friends going to that place”.
The defendant also recognized the clothes he wore that day, including the bloody shoe that places him as the person who gave the deadly kick to Fernando Báez Sosa: “They are mine”he said about the shoes and pants he wore on January 18, 2020.
Judicial sources indicated that Thomsen did not want to answer the questions in the complaint either and they noted that during the videos he did not recognize any of his friends accused in the case investigating the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa.
