Fernando Burlando and Facundo Améndola, lawyers for the Báez Sosa, they enter the TOC N°1 room and greet the prosecutors. The defendants have not yet entered the room.
The parents of the rugbiers enter the room:
There are the parents of Enzo Comelli, Marcelo Comelli and María Alejandra Guillén; Marcos Pertossi, father of Lucas; María Paula Cinalli, mother of Blas Cinalli, together with her sister; Rosalía Zárate, mother of Máximo Thomsen together with her brother, Facundo. Also present are María Elena Cinalli, the mother of Luciano and Ciro Pertossi, the parents of Matías Benicelli, Mónica Ester Zárate and Héctor Benicelli, as well as the parents of Ayrton Viollaz, Sergio Viollaz and Erica Edith Pizzatti.
Marcial, father of Máximo Thomsen, one of the most constant presences in the trial, is not in the room.
Federico Omar Marasco, secretary of TOC No. 1 will be responsible for reading the verdict
Also present in the courtroom are: Santiago Cremonte, president of the Dolores Bar Association and his brother Juan Pablo Cremonte, president of the Dolores Bar Association.
Upon entering the room, the prosecutors Gustavo García and Juan Manuel Dávila greeted them with a hug.
The defendants left the Dolores prison andThrough heavy security shortly after 12:10 p.m. to address the audience.
Hugo Tomei and Emilia Pertossi, defenders of rugby players, are already inside the room and talking to each other.
More security presence is expected in the courtroom than usual. In previous hearings, twelve SPB members surrounded the eight defendants. A cordon will be made to separate the relatives of the defendants from the relatives of Báez Sosa.
Ramón, grandfather of Lucio Dupuyarrived at the court from La Pampa and entered the room.
Shortly before, he asked “an exemplary conviction.”
Inside the court, Ramón hugged Graciela, Fernando’s mother.
Outside the fence, members of different groups, among them, Killing Hurts, Families of Pain, Mothers of Pain and Active in the Fight.
Minutes after the fathers and mothers of the rugby players entered, relatives of victims gathered to ask “perpetual for all”.
They also take the opportunity to make their causes visible. “We will always accompany and if we have to appeal, we will appeal,” he says Karina Villagrán, Sol Villagrán’s auntone of the young women who took dance classes at the Soul Studio school in Grand Bourg and who died in an accident in Mendoza.
“Relatives of victims, present.” “Now and always”they shout with a megaphone.
The relatives of the rugbiers arrived:
The relatives of those accused of the Báez Sosa crime arrived at the Dolores courts in five cars, escorted by police personnel aboard motorcycles. In a van that Marcos Pertossi, Lucas’s father, was driving, was the lawyer Emilia Pertossi, sister and cousin of three of the defendants. Francisco, brother of Máximo Thomsen, is also among those present, as well as the mother of Blas Cinalli and the father of Enzo Comelli
Around, a group of people shouts calls for justice with a megaphone.
Arrived in court Hugo Tomeilawyer for the defendants.
Upon arrival, he made his way through the fence, where he surrounded him a row of about 17 police officers.
How is the security operation for the day of the sentence:
The provincial Ministry of Security ordered an operation with 152 effective and 18 mobile present in the building on Belgrano street.
It includes personnel from police stations and the Dolores Local Police, from the Women’s Police Station, special anti-riot groups from the GAD and the zonal DDI, Criminal Intelligence personnel, eight groups of Infantry with eight motorcycles, a fire engine, an expert expert in explosives waiting and 170 meters of fencing by the Logistics Support Superintendence, among other divisions.
(Reporting by Federico Fahsbender)
The rugbiers’ lawyer will arrive with custody at the hearing:
Hugo Tomei, defender of the eight defendants, will arrive at the Dolores courts in the middle of a security operation special diagrammed by the Buenos Aires Police
“Tomei has to leave his car at a special beach away from the court. There, he will look for him, a patrolman will have one or two troops assigned to him at all times. Then they take him back in a patrol car to his car, ”says a source extremely close to the defender to this medium.
Police sources, on the other hand, assure that he will be present in a private vehicle, but protected by police custody.
The idea, of course, is to avoid any conflict.
(with information from Martín Candalaft)
Fernando’s in-laws, present at the verdict
Alejandra and Oscar Rossi They are the parents of Julieta Rossi, Fernando’s girlfriend at the time of the crime. They arrived in Dolores this Monday at 8 in the morning to accompany Silvino and GracielaFerdinand’s parents. “They are part of our family. We constantly talk to each other. On Fridays, many times, we go to look for Graciela to have a coffee”, says Alejandra to infobae. Next to him, Oscar nods and says that Silvino “He’s another friend.”
Julieta, just like at the trial, where she did not testify as a witness, decided not to be present on the occasion. Alexandra He says his daughter “suffered a lot” and that, in these three years, “she clung to dance, an activity she has always done since she was little.”
During the three weeks of the trial, Alejandra says, no news was seen at home while her daughter was present. “I didn’t want to hear the word Dolores. At home we don’t talk about Fer either ”says.
Regarding the verdict, they say they are “extremely nervous”. “We already know that we will not be able to enter the room because there is little space, but we are going to see if we can locate ourselves in the hall of the Court to receive Silvino and Graciela when they leave,” they asserted.
The pain of other parents who lost their children and the outrage of the people:
The relatives of victims of other crimes and the residents of Dolores were present at the fence around Court No. 1. Ruben Crego, 52 years old, arrived in Dolores from Tres de Febrero. The man hung flags on the fence that surrounds the Palace of Courts with the face of his son, Lautaro, fatal victim of a traffic accident. He said that together with a group of people, he came to join the request for justice. “We want justice, not revenge. We will be between 30 and 50 people. We come from La Matanza, San Martín and Pilar”he asserted.
A few meters from the Court, a group of six people spread a banner asking “Life for Fernando’s murderers.” in chat with infobaeThey say that they arrived in Dolores this morning in a van, there are eleven self-summoned people. They came from different parts of the province of Buenos Aires, such as Burzaco, Pontevedra, Bernal, La Plata and Florencio Varela. Also from Rosario.
Delia González is 60 years old, she is part of the combi entourage. She is a nurse and took advantage of her vacation to be present in Dolores. “Fernando is a bit of each one’s son,” he says. By your side. Olga Taboada, a 73-year-old retiree, tells that she decided to come to support Silvino and Graciela Báez Sosa. “I have a grandson his age and all this hurt me a lot. Let it be perpetual for all. All eight were at fault. The eight killed him”says.
One of the posters hung by those present says with irony, referring to the trial evidence: “Fernando was killed by the CPR that the Rugbiers gave him. They kicked his head in.”
