Friday, January 13, 2023 | 11:45 a.m.
The Pertossi are a well-known family in Zárate. In February 2020, a month after the fact, a neighbor who spoke with Telenoche, for the thirteen, described them as a “mafia” and assured that the residents of the neighborhood were afraid of them.
“I have known them for almost 40 years. Many things were said and I have experienced many things, none very good. That they were half gangsters, that they liked to hit and much worse things that I don’t want to say, ”the woman then remarked, who asked to give the note behind her back so as not to be identified. “Honestly, I’m scared. They are very rude things, it is a mafia, ”she said.
The neighbor mentioned that she was not surprised to learn that the Pertossi were involved in the crime: “It was known that they were like that. The whole neighborhood knows it, but they don’t speak out for fear of reprisals.”
If there is no fight, there is no good night: the fun of the accused rugby players
Along the same lines, Francisco Santoro, a friend of Pablo Ventura (the rower who was framed by the defendants when, in fact, he was innocent), testified this Thursday at the trial and assured that the rugbiers “always walked in a group looking for a fight.”
“In a preview before the bowling alley they looked for a friend. They were always looking for you. They tested you to see your reaction. Either they touched your head or they spilled a glass on you”, affirmed the young man before Criminal Court No. 1 of Dolores, in charge of the debate.
Santoro recalled that, at a party in January 2019, “the Pertossi started a fight that ended outside with a hospitalized boy.” And he continued: “Actually, it was not a fight. It was one guy against a group of four people or more.”
The witness added: “As people, my concept is bad. His fun at night was going out looking for a fight. They had fun fighting.” And he mentioned Lucas Pertossi: “He always put you to the test, with pushes or whatever.”
The brothers Luciano (21 years old) and Ciro (22), and Lucas Pertossi (23), their cousin, are part of the group accused of Fernando’s crime. All three are highly compromised in the eyes of the court.
The criminal history of the Pertossi
According to investigations carried out by the TN, Matías and Ramiro Pertossi were imprisoned for robbery and threats with weapons. Ciro, Luciano and Lucas are not the only ones in the clan with a criminal record. Lucas’ older brother, Matías, 25, was imprisoned in the Campana prison after being convicted of “attempted robbery for the use of a firearm and injuries,” in an event that took place in Zárate in July 2018.
Ramiro Pertossi (18), younger brother of Ciro and Luciano, and cousin of Lucas and Matías, also had problems with the law. The young man was arrested by the Zárate police in May 2021 for threatening a man with a firearm, although Justice finally granted him freedom and issued a perimeter restriction so that he could not approach the victim or the house. of the.
Luciano Pertossi, the most complicated defendant in the case, broke the silence
The hearing this Thursday in the trial of the rugby players for the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa in Villa Gesell produced a novelty that could mark a break in the case. Luciano Pertossi broke the silence to deny an expert who, through a video, had located him at the crime scene. ”I wasn’t there,” confessed the person involved.
