At the beginning of his plea, the lawyer for the eight defendants for the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa, Hugo Tomei, emphasized the “social and public” condemnation of his defendants and surprised the President of the Nation and Pope Francis with criticism. .
While expounding on the role of the media, the lawyer pointed out: “The President surprised us with a little sign that said Justice for Fernando, there are other little signs that say Justice is perpetual. The President of the Nation, a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, is asking for a life sentence.”. And he went further, mentioning an apparent intervention by Pope Francis and other public figures.
“All in favor of one side and condemning the other”he clarified.
After that, he was convinced that the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 1 “He won’t be intimidated by anything”.
During his presentation -which he anticipated briefly-, Tomei announced that he will request the acquittal of his defendants because, he maintained, the fact that they are accused of could not be proven.
“There was an aggression by my defendants towards the other group in which Báez Sosa participated, and I believe that it is a fact that it should be classified as a known homicide in a fight, which is more aggression than in a fight, and in effect I also propose a simple homicide with eventual intent and that the participations that the Court understands be distributed. And to conclude, also the preterintentional homicide that I think it is appropriate to analyze from that place “he synthesized.
