Almost three years after the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa at the exit of the Le Brique bowling alley, in Villa Gesell, this Friday the first week of the trial of the eight rugby players accused of beating the young law student to death. In this context, the projection of a video showing the fatal attack was difficult for the father of Enzo Comellione of the defendants, and the man had to leave the room.
According to the TN journalist Paula Berniniwho covers the trial, Comelli’s father, when they were watching the videos of the beating, “he broke down and had to leave the courtroom because he couldn’t hold back crying,” he explained.
“He was escorted outside by the father of Lucas Pertosi and there were already two witnesses outside the room without wanting to listen. The moment that we live is very tense. From day one the parents, the defense and the defendants decided not to open their mouths or declare in court or through the media. It is a barrier and a distance that forms between them and us,” he added.
Enzo Comelli is one of the rugbiers that appeared in Lucas Pertossi’s video. For Justice, he is one of the first attackers, along with Ciro Pertossi. According to the images, he hit Fernando Báez Sosa’s friends to prevent them from defending him.
The recording that his father could not stand lasts just eight seconds and was taken from Pertossi’s cell phone. Records the fall of the 18-year-old after being savagely beaten by one of the rugby players.
At this Friday’s hearing, an expert from the Buenos Aires police declared that the detained rugby players were “laughing” and that they had to “call their attention several times because they wouldn’t stop laughing” during the raid in which they were arrested. “They were very smiling, we had to call their attention several times so they wouldn’t laugh, that we were working on something serious,” he said this afternoon before the Oral Criminal Court (TOC)1 of Dolores Hugo Vasquezin charge of the procedure of the Scientific Police that carried out the survey of articles of clothing in the house of the accused when they were arrested in Villa Gesell.
