Máximo Thomsen, one of those accused of the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa, asked to testify this afternoon in the trial for the case, asked for “apologies” and assured that he “never” had “intentions to kill someone.”
“I want to apologize mainly because never, never in my life would I have thought of killing someone. I never in my life had that intention and I want to apologize,” said the rugby player before the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 1 of Dolores, in charge of the debate.
Thomsen first made a presentation in which he told that he went to Le Brique after having “sucked” on the beach with his friends, and that the bowling alley was very full. He said that they were in the bar of the place, and that there was pushing.
“I hear: ‘Please, stop pushing’, and when I finish listening to that someone bumps me in the back and throws me. It was a friend who had a bump and I ask him what’s wrong, and they lift him from behind by the neck and I tell him: ‘Please, take him down.’ Security got in and said: ‘Take him out too.’ I start to run and ask why they wanted to take me out. They crossed my arm and I felt a very strong pressure, I got scared and I took my hands to try to prevent me from suffocating. I heard them say: ‘Take him to the kitchen, we’ll screw him up,'” he recalled, after which he was taken out of the place.
The statements of the most involved rugbier
“I wanted to go back in. My friend tells me: ´Let it go, don’t worry.’ the face and I react kicking I don’t know who, I don’t know how, one kick, two. Never in my life did I intend to kill anyone. because I have been hearing every day that I organized, that I am a leader. He was one person against many,” she said.
The prosecution questioned what Thomsen described as a “fight” to which the defendant continued to insist on that term. “Where did you see a fight?” The representative of the Public Prosecutor’s Office questioned him.
The trial seeking justice for the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa advances
“Recognize the person who is down,” the prosecutor asked him when exposing a video that shows Fernando Báez Sosa lying on the floor: “I know it’s the victimThomson replied.
Thus, prosecutor García asked him: “What did you do?”, and Máximo Thomsen said: “I kicked or two, I don’t know who I hit.” He retorted the prosecution: Did he kick that person lying on the floor? “, To which the defendant closed:” I don’t know “.
The rugby player only answered questions about him
The prosecution insisted on showing him several videos and asked Thomsen to identify the place where he was located, and to describe the situation, this is when Fernando Báez Sosa was hit. All time, the rugby player clarified that he was only going to answer questions about him and not what made reference to the other accused persons.
I don’t have good memories of that moment. I remember that I saw a little people and one of my friends going to the place and I went to get in because there were a lot of people“Thomsen insisted over and over again.
According to what he said, after what happened, he left because he was not going to stay to be attacked: “I got home first, I put on comfortable clothes because my shirt was torn, I changed and waited, and when the others arrived, they started to comment on the fight and at the end another of the boys arrives and says that I think it ended badly, and I told him: ´Perhaps you are confusing yourself with another fight, if they were seconds.´ I don’t know who tells me to go eat, and I grabbed with Lucas and went to McDonalds, came back and fell asleep”, he summarized about that early morning of January 18, 2020.
“In any video of the twelve days of the trial, did you see a video in which you have been beaten?” insisted the prosecutor Juan Manuel Dávila, to which Máximo Thomsen, concisely: “I did not notice it.”
Official images of Máximo Thomsen in the Villa Gesell City Hall in 2020
Why Thomsen didn’t talk to Burlando
Then the plaintiff Fernando Burlando and Thomsen quickly took the floor, reacted: “I do not feel comfortable answering questions to a person who insulted me while I was detained, he insulted my mom and I don’t feel comfortable answering him. I don’t want to answer the part.”
After having asked four questions and Thomsen clarifying that he was not going to answer, the president of the Court insisted on whether or not he wanted to continue declaring: “I am not going to answer,” he closed the interrogation.
Thomsen’s surprise statement took place after his mother Rosalía Zárate testified and it made him cry, to such an extent that his lawyers handed him handkerchiefs and the agents of the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service served him a glass of water. He with his hands over and over again wiped her eyes full of tears.
