The second day of the trial of the eight rugbiers accused of beating to death Fernando Baez Sosa tomorrow will include the testimony of a dozen friends who were vacationing with the victim in the seaside resort of Villa Gesell at the time of the crime.
Despite the fact that Fernando’s girlfriend, Julieta Rossi, was scheduled to make a statement first, the lawyer Fernando Burlandowho leads with Fabian Amendola representing the family of the murdered young man, assured telam that “Juli is not going to testify” because she would not be in a position to do so.
The young woman, with whom Fernando dated for almost a year until the time of the murder, was inside the “Le Brique” nightclub at dawn on January 18, 2020, when he and his friends were expelled from the premises for an alleged clash with the group of accused rugby players and then they were attacked on the sidewalk across the street.
After the first hearing of the oral process held this Monday, in which the victim’s parents, Graciela Sosa Osorio and Silvino Báez, gave a statement, the new round of testimonies will begin at 9:00 a.m. before the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 1 of Dolores.
As Julieta would not be in a position to testify, the first to do so before the judges of the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 1 of Dolores, which make up Maria Claudia Castro, Christian Rabaia Y Emiliano Lazzariwill be the father of the victim’s girlfriend, Alexander Rossi. Then Fernando’s ten friends will follow, who spent the summer with him in Gesell, many of whom were also attacked by the defendants at the time of the attack in front of the dance venue.
For the attacks suffered by at least five of Fernando’s friends, Ignacio Vaudagna, Juan Manuel Pereyra Rozas, Juan Bautista Besuzzo, Lucas Begide and Tomás Agustín D’Alessandro, the rugbiers are charged with the crime of “minor injuries”, which is adds to the main accusation of the trial for “aggravated homicide due to treachery and the premeditated cooperation of two or more people”.
As reported by Burlando, after testifying as witnesses on the first day, the victim’s parents will witness this second hearing in the Chamber of Appeals, located on the first floor of the Dolores courts.
For their part, sources close to the defense pointed out the eight defendants, maximum thomsen (23), Enzo Comelli (22), Matias Benicelli (23), Blas Cinalli (twenty-one), Ayrton Violaz (23), and Luciano (twenty-one), Cyrus (22) and Lucas Pertosi (23), will be present again, as they did at the opening of the oral debate.
