Today, the judges of the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) No. 1 of Dolores issued the sentences of the eight rugbiers involved in the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa. Five of them received the maximum penalty, life imprisonment (35 years), while the remaining three received 15 years in prison.
At the moment when the magistrates, María Claudia Castro, Christian Rabaia and Emiliano Lázzari, announced the judgment, is was interrupted because one of the defendants, Máximo Thomsen, decompensated and fainted hearing that he was being sentenced to life imprisonment. The young rugby player is the most involved in the case, certain witnesses and the lawyers of the relatives of Fernando Báez Sosa, accuse him of being the one who gave the kick that killed the victim and emotionally contained his other teammates.
Immediately after Thomsen received the maximum penalty, his mother, Rosalía Zárateburst into tears and shouted for his son through the nickname he uses, “Machu”. An instant later, the accused rugby player collapsed in his chair and his mother began to call for help, raising her voice, “a doctor please! I don’t stay calm until they let me be with him. I have to be with him.”asked the mother who saw how her son received the judgment.
In the midst of the attention provided by the doctor arranged in the court of Dolores, Rosalía demanded that they remove the media from the room, alleging that “they were torturing him for three years”. It is that, the murder of Fernando was planned and perpetrated on January 18, 2020, so only 19 days ago it was three years since this tragic event outside the Le Brique bowling alley in Villa Gesell.
Thomsen’s mother’s demand was applied and the authorities threw out the present media covering the verdict of the magistrates on those who killed Fernando. The last thing the journalists reported at the scene was that Rosalía and the other relatives of the eight defendants were left hugging each other and crying.
Every sentence to the rugbiers
The set of three judges unanimously decided to sentence Máximo Thomsen, Ciro Pertossi, Enzo Comelli, Matías Benicelli and Luciano Pertossi to life imprisonment, which includes a prison sentence of 35 years. On the other hand, the defendants Ayrton Viollaz, Blas Cinalli and Lucas Pertossi received the benefit of 15 years in prison, being considered secondary participants in the premeditated murder.
By this decision of the magistrates, The lawyers of the victim’s relatives, Fernando Burlando and Fabián Améndola, will appeal the verdict where three of the eight rugbiers are considered secondary participants alleging that it is “inconsistent to think that one participated more or less in a plan (in which) all participated”.
