Tomás Bidonde, the first witness of the day, began to declare:
The young man was an eyewitness to the attack. At the beginning of his testimony, he broke down in tears and pointed sharply at Máximo Thomsen.
Tomás spent the night of January 18 at Le Brique with a friend. He stated that in the bowling alley “it was very hot”, that “there were many people and little oxygen” and that is why he decided to retire. He also maintained that he witnessed the fight on the track and made reference to “A boy who had a lot of strength that two or three security guards had to take out.” When leaving the dance hall, the witness witnessed the beating. “Fernando was hit by four. To a boy who wanted to get in and they hit him with a pineapple, ”he said.
When asked about who hit Fernando, he complicated Máximo Thomsen. “I was hitting the boy who later passed away and I remember that towards the end he kicked him twice in the head. From where I saw it they were like punctures. Then she grabbed him by the head and kicked him two or three times ”.
Later, included Ciro Pertossi in the story.
At the recognition wheel in 2020, Bidonde recognized Ciro Pertossi as one of those who hit Fernando on the left side of the torso when he was already on the floor. Since the trial began, it is the first time that one of the witnesses names Ciro as one of the aggressors. He also recognized Lucas Pertossi as another of Fernando’s punchers. He assured that Matías Benicelli and Ayrton Viollaz attacked one of Báez Sosa’s friends to prevent them from saving him.
Also, he said that after the fight they left the scene: “They walked, stopped on a roof, below a restaurant, a cafe and turned around, some time passed and they left.” The moment, which occurs in the Cipriani restaurant, was filmed by a security camera. Later, several videos were projected, Bidonde recognized the defendants in the images.
Asked about his in the beating he could detect some “leader”, Bidonde again pointed to Thomsen and the “aggressiveness with which I kick the boy’s head in the head.” “He was very muscular. He kicked a lot. I feel that as a leader: he went to the front, hit ”. The complaint asks him to specify what the “punctures” were like. The witness said: “Like when you kick a soccer ball with the tips of your fingers.”
The witness refers that after the fact he did not want to stay in Villa Gesell. “I went to look for my mother in Pinamar and I came back. Seeing that, and everything that followed: that the ambulance did not arrive… It made me sick”.
In the room, they only wear chinstraps Silvino Báez, a risk patient after receiving a transplant, and two relatives of the rugby players: Sergio Viollaz, father of Ayrton and Mónica Zárate, the mother of Matías Benicelli.
The rugbiers entered Courtroom No. 1 surrounded by the SPB’s strict custody. Contrary to previous hearings, where his face was rigorously covered, the eight defendants appeared without a chinstrap.
The use of mouth covers it was a requirement of the judges at the beginning of the process. They were distributed free of charge on the first day to those present, in view of the recent increase in COVID cases. Ayrton Viollaz and Máximo Thomsen repeatedly downloaded them in previous hearings.
Some parents of the defendants who were present at previous hearings are not seen in the courtroom. Marcos Pertossi is not in the seats despite his sudden entrance. Martial Thomsen is missing either. Sergio Viollaz, Ayrton’s father, is present. On Báez Sosa’s side are Fernando’s parents and Tomás D’Alessandro, one of the victim’s friends who he testified as a witness.
The prosecuting prosecutors Juan Manuel D’Avila and Gustavo Garcia they reached the courts of Dolores.
“We have strategies that we cannot overtake”, D’Avila assured. “The witnesses have a lot of memories of what happened,” continued the prosecutor, who is satisfied with what happens in the hearings.
Seconds later, defender Hugo Tomei arrived. “What happens in the audience, stays in the audience. Until I plead, I’m not going to make a hasty assessment. I do not question in hearings, it is a moment of interrogation”, he asserted. “We are listening to information, in the same way that we listen to everything, at the time of the allegations it will be seen.”
Marcos Pertossi, father of Lucas, one of the defendants, pushed the journalists who surrounded him insistently in search of his testimony.
Shortly before 8 AM, the eight rugby players charged with the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa they entered the courts of Dolores enter a security device of the SPB.
Today the statements of twelve witnesses are expected, including the police officers who intervened in front of the nightclub minutes after the attackseveral witnesses to the attack, a young tourist who assisted the victim and two merchants who were a few meters from the place.
First of all, they will testify four police officers affected by Operative Sol in the summer of 2020 who arrived at the scene minutes after Fernando was attacked. According to the hearing schedule, they are: Roberto Gustavo Basualdo, Carlos Anibal Contino, Fernando Raul Gonzalez Y Leandro Hipólito Barreca Maidana.
then it will Virginia Perez Antonellia young woman who was vacationing in Villa Gesell at that time and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the victim, after the police officer Maximiliano Rosso Suarez I massaged him at first.
