The trial of eight young men accused for having killed a student at the exit of a nightclub highlighted violent practices in the world of the oval ball.
by Flora Knees (Buenos Aires, correspondent)
Reading the verdict was transmitted live by various television channels and information sites, Monday, February 6, in Argentina. The cameras were robbed on the face of the eight accused, a group of friends aged 21 to 23, tried for the murder of an 18 -year -old student three years earlier, on January 18, 2020. Five of them were Sentenced to life imprisonment by the Dolore court (220 kilometers south of Buenos Aires), the other three at fifteen years’ imprisonment for “secondary” participation. The homicide is doubly aggravated because they are committed with premeditation and in meeting. For three years, the investigation and the trial attracted the eyes to the world of Argentinian rugby.
The assassination took place in the middle of summer southern at Villa Gesell, a seaside resort of the Atlantic coast run by the Argentine youth. An argument had broken out in the Le Brique nightclub. Young people had been summoned to leave the premises shortly after 4:30 a.m. Among them, the victim, Fernando Baez Sosa, who is beaten on the sidewalk by a group of men, also expelled from the nightclub. Different surveillance camera images allow you to trace the sequence: deadly tobacco passage; the hug that two members of the band give themselves in stride; The getaway in a fast food, just after the facts, of two of the eight attackers. The young men were all part of the small rugby club Nautico Arsenal de Zarate, their original city, located 90 kilometers north of Buenos Aires.
During the requisitions, on January 25, perpetuity was requested for the entire group of friends. “They [the accused] agreed to kill and they chose to wear multiple punches and foot, especially in the head,” said prosecutor Gustavo Garcia. Fernando Burlando, lawyer for the victim’s family, civil party, put forward “the desire to kill” in “a carnage that lasted fifty seconds”. The “brawl” reclassification, what the defense required, was ruled out.
create “a new culture”
From January 2020, homicide aroused great emotion in Argentina, with demonstrations in several cities demanding “justice for Fernando”. The watchword also spread on social networks. The trial, which started on January 2, died of the Argentines. He turned into a sort of spectacle, with his highlights dissected to the envy by the national media, such as reading the verdict. One of the perpetuity sentences experienced discomfort, finding himself a few seconds lying on the bench of the court, head on the knees of another convicted.
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