Monday, January 23, 2023 | 10:00 a.m.
The final stage of the trial against the eight rugbiers for the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa, can be followed live through the YouTube channel of the Buenos Aires Supreme Court of Justice. The new phase will begin on Wednesday, January 25 at the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) No. 1 in Dolores.
From the initial expectation for the start of the trial of the 8 rugbiers accused of the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa, now what reigns is the anxiety to know the sentence that the detainees will receive.
Although during the oral debate it was verified that Máximo Thomsen, Luciano Pertossi and Ciro Pertossi hit the 18-year-old young man at the exit of the Le Brique nightclub, in Villa Gesell, in the 13 hearings that took place in the city of Dolores, it was not was able to determine with complete certainty if the rest of the suspects also attacked Báez Sosa.
What will be determined in the upcoming discussions?
It is expected that they agree on the imputation of the rugbiers as “functional co-authors”, and if this is not the case, they must determine who were the authors and the eventual degree of participation of the rest.
The rugbiers intended to kill Fernando
The original qualification, carried out by the prosecution and with which the case came to trial, is aggravated homicide by the premeditated concurrence of two or more people and treachery. That is to say, according to this statement, the rugby players had the intention of killing Fernando, they devised a plan for it and executed it with the defenseless victim. This qualification carries a life sentence in case any of the two aggravating circumstances are proven.
Thus, they would go to jail for a minimum of 35 years, with the possibility of requesting parole after that period.
On Thursday, January 26, from 9, it will be the turn of the defense
At this point, the rugby players’ lawyer, Hugo Tomei, would refute the accusation and point to a strategy to release the eight young people: he could argue that the death occurred in a scenario of “homicide in a fight or assault”. He has a maximum sentence of six years and a minimum of two. The rugbiers have three years of time served in pretrial detention. An intermediate penalty would mean immediate release.
The future of rugbiers is defined
In these terms, the Oral Criminal Court No. 1 of Dolores, made up of judges Claudia Castro, Christian Rabaia and Emiliano Lázzari, must decide in a few days whether to sentence all the defendants to life imprisonment, as the parents expect. of the victim, or if, instead, they resolve a different penalty.
