maximum thomsen He is one of the eight young people prosecuted for the crime of Fernando Baez Sosa in an event that occurred in the early morning of January 18, 2020 and that shocked the country. After the first week of the oral trial, at least ten witnesses complicated their procedural situation, who with their versions confirmed the images from the security cameras of the homicide area.
Alejandro “Chiqui” Munozthe security chief of the bowling alley the brique At the time of the crime, he measures 2.03 meters and weighs 150 kilos. When said that during that early morning he needed to ask for help to expel Thomsen from the dance venue, the defendant monopolized certain glances. Several present in the courtroom had a hard time understanding how someone with just over half the weight of the patovica could challenge him in strength. Muñoz’s testimony—with more than two decades of experience in the nightclub business—complicated the defendant. He wasn’t the only one. Of the 47 witnesses who came forward to testify in the first week of the debate, at least a dozen located him on the night of the crime while he was kicking Fernando in the head.
Of the twelve friends of Fernando who sat in front of Criminal Court No. 1, four of them referred to Thomsen: Lucas Filardi he said that he hit Báez Sosa in the chest when he was already on the floor; John Baptist Besuzzo Y Lucas Begide they talked about “kicks in the jaw”; Luciano Nahuel Bonamaison It was even more forceful: “I saw how Máximo Thomsen, whom I recognized at the wheel, kicked Fernando with hatred, brutality, with the intent to kill,” he said.
On the third day of the trial, the statements of the three security employees of the briquewho intervened in the fight and gave exit to both groups, did not favor the rugby player either.
In addition to “Chiqui” Muñoz, another who targeted Thomsen was Cristian Ignacio Gomez. The patovica explained that the incident took place at the moment when “a pogo was put together” during the show at Le Brique that night, by the trap artist Neo Pistea.
Said “He ended up calming down and reducing Matías Benicelli with his arms behind his back”. He also explained that when he was about to take him out through the kitchen door, a person “with an alienated, crazy face” appeared, who put a hand on his shoulder and ordered him not to take Benicelli out. “That person turned out to be Máximo Thomsen”he added.
The statements of the patovicas coincided with the videos that were projected in the room, where it was shown how and in what order the defendants were expelled through the secondary door of Le Brique. Unlike the rest of the defendants, Thomsen had to be removed by two people and applied an immobilizer key. On the way, the young man tried to get away: he shook his body, he resisted.
To his story was added that of Fabian Maximiliano Avila. That night, Ávila witnessed the fight between Thomsen and Báez Sosa (“Fernando, who had a torn shirt, hit the man I was holding in the stomach with a pineapple,” he said, referring to Máximo) and prepared to separate them. Ávila explains that he wanted to remove the rugby player, but he tripped over a step and they fell to the ground.
In the end, he retired Báez Sosa. “I told him to walk me outside,” he said.
Another of the testimonies that complicated Thomsen was that of Thomas Bidondea young man who on the night of the crime was in the brique, and who became an eyewitness to the event. “He kicked the boy in the head who later died,” he said, highlighting the “aggressiveness” of the blows that he described as “punching.” “Like when you kick a soccer ball with your fingertips,” he explained.
before the judge Maria Claudia Castropresident of TOC No. 1 of Dolores, the taxi driver Marcos Damian Acevedo he said he witnessed the beating from his vehicle. He recounted the plot of the group attack and claimed that Thomsen “finished it off” with kicks.
Sebastian Saldano, another eyewitness who worked at a kiosk located a few meters from the scene of the attack, made a similar statement. He said that he saw Fernando on the floor receiving punches and kicks from Máximo Thomsen and that “the skinny guy with a bun” (referring to Matias Benicelli) harangued his accomplice. Later, she said that after the beating they fled.
The testimony of Andrea Ranno, the employee of the Hotel Inti Huasi, who sighted the escape of the defendants, is complemented by what Saldaño recounted. According to Ranno, Thomsen and the rest of the defendants ran from the brique in the direction of the “El Bosque” area. Ranno gave a precise description of Máximo Thomsen’s shoes: “black with a rubber sole”. In addition, he reported that he saw him as “taken out” and “out of his mind.” “He was going with his head down and his fists clenched and making this sound,” he said, as he stamped his feet on the ground. He also identified Matías Benicelli as the one who was running behind, “the one with the rodetito”.
On the last day, the mystery of Thomsen’s shoe that marked the face of Báez Sosa and the false accusation against Paul Ventura. So much Mariano Orlando VivasWhat Hugo Martin Vazqueztwo officers who participated in the raid in the chalet that the defendants rented in Villa Gesell -Martin being a high-ranking officer of the Scientific Police- maintained that Máximo Thomsen said aloud that the shoe belonged to the rower from Zárate.
This information was not part of the file, it did not appear in the elevation to trial and the Ventura family and the prosecutors never knew it. After airing these details, the outrage in the room grew even more. Next week, the shoe will be one of the main forensic tests to be discussed in the next week.
