Wednesday, January 18, 2023 | 6:55 p.m.
Lucas Pertossi and Blas Cinalli, two of the eight accused for the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa, committed in Villa Gesell on January 18, 2020, testified this Wednesday during the trial for the fact that “at no time” did they hit the victim and that there was no “plan” to kill him.
The first to break the silence on the last day of receiving evidence, which coincided with the third anniversary of the homicide, was Lucas Pertossi (23), who in a brief statement before the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) 1 of Dolores said : “I feel very sorry for everything that happened. I want to clarify that I never hit Fernando Báez Sosa, nor did I touch him, nor did I participate in a plan to assassinate him.”
About his role in the attack that occurred at the door of the “Le Brique” bowling alley, he recounted: “I see that a friend of mine was being grabbed by the foot and they are throwing him to the ground. ‘Let him go’, I kick him twice, and I’m leaving walking to the corner.”
Pertossi also referred to the message sent to the WhatsApp group “Los delBoca3” that he shared with the rest of the defendants, in which he stated that “it expired” in reference to how Fernando had been after being beaten.
“‘There was a fight, an ambulance came and a kid expired,’ someone told me when I came across and I asked him if he had seen a group of boys. And I send what he had told me,” said the defendant.
According to him, after that comment, he asked his friends: “Does anyone know? A stranger told me that a kid had expired,” to which the others replied: “Stay calm, we fought but we came back.”
He also assured that he used to record different scenes on video with his cell phone and that for this reason he was nicknamed “little chronicle” and “attempted influencer”, and in this way he justified the recording of both the moment of expulsion from the bowling alley and the start of the attack.
“There was no planning”
After that statement, Cinalli (21) asked to speak before the court, who said: “I want to start by saying that I am very sorry for everything that happened, it was a terrible tragedy, a boy my age died. There was no plan. There was no planning There was no role.”
Referring to the episode, and while a video was shown in which he sees how he kicks a friend of Fernando, Tomás D’Alessandro, Cinalli explained with a pointer in his hand that this young man was “tackling” and had “grabbed the foot”. Presumably one of his friends.
“I yelled ‘let go’, ‘let go’, and there he grabbed my foot, he was going to throw me, and when I can get away I kick him,” he said.
The defendant also stated that “he was very drunk” at the time of the event and although he said that he did not remember having been among those who surrounded Fernando, based on the videos shown at the request of the prosecution, he finally assured: “It may be that I was fairly close”.
In turn, Pertossi emphasized in different sections of his statement that they had drunk before entering “Le Brique”, that they had carried “an ice cream with alcohol to the beach”, that they had been “drinking”, that they had brought “more alcohol” to “a preview” to which they had been invited and that they had lost a card game “to see who would take the most”.
Unlike Pertossi, Cinalli agreed to answer questions, but only from prosecutors Juan Manuel Dávila and Gustavo García, since he accused the lawyer of the victim’s parents, Fernando Burlando, of disrespecting him.
And in this sense, he asked to play a video in which the lawyer refers to the defendants with terms such as “they are serious shits”, “sons of bitches”, “conchudos”, “murderers who deserve to die in jail”, “represent eschatological waste”, “they attacked like a bunch of shitters”.
“This is what I lived for three years, a lack of respect for me and my family, very unprofessional,” he said and also clarified that he would not respond to anyone other than him.
When asked about how he felt, he said: “Bad, at the time I didn’t think all that had happened. Obviously I’m bad. Everything that happened hurt me too much.”
Both defendants indicated that they intervened after “a riot”, after their friends were allegedly attacked after being expelled from the nightclub.
Cinalli also referred to the traces compatible with his genetic profile found on the victim’s finger: “Through the expertise I could see that Fernando Báez Sosa had my DNA on his little finger. I never hit him, I didn’t know who he was. I suppose the person I had the encounter with (at the bowling alley) was him. But I never hit him.”
With the statements previously given by Máximo Thomsen (23) and Luciano (21) and Ciro Pertossi (22), the only defendants who did not break the silence in the debate were Enzo Comelli (22), Matías Benicelli (23) and Ayrton Viollaz ( 2. 3).
Source: Telam
