Crime of Fernando Báez Sosa: the Court of Cassation confirmed the sentences of the rugby players

The Buenos Aires Court of Cassation confirmed the convictions of the rugby players found responsible for the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa, the young man who was attacked at the exit of the Le Brique bowling alley, in Villa Gesell, on January 18, 2020.The highest provincial criminal court ratified the life sentences for Máximo Thomsen, Enzo Comelli, Matías Benicelli, Ciro Pertossi and Luciano Pertossi under the cover of “aggravated homicide by the premeditated concurrence of two or more people”. As for Ayrton Violaz, Blas Cinali and Lucas Pertossi, their 15 years in prison for “secondary participation” were ratified. You may also be interested in: “I miss my son terribly,” said Báez Sosa’s mother 4 years after the crimeThe sentence was signed by judges Fernando Luís María Mancini and María Florencia Budiño, the agency reported Argentinian News (NA), while specifying that the ruling ruled out the aggravating circumstance of “treachery” that had been included by the oral court of Dolores that handed down the conviction in 2023.Crime of Fernando Báez Sosa: the convictions of the rugby players are confirmed”It must be clearly established, as an illuminating example, that, even in the middle of a previous fight, in which one of the contenders is defenseless, Their immediate killing is not treacherous,” said the ruling, which exceeds 170 pages with respect to the defendants serving life sentences. On the other hand, and in order to this specific event, although there has been no fight, the scene of the events shows a large public attendance, with a relatively close police presence, which prevents both the ambush, as well as the typical action on the safe side, typical of the figure, without adding to these purposes – to definitively rule out surprise – the undisguised mode of attack with profiles of a vociferous horde”, Expanded. With regard to Violaz, Cinali and Lucas Pertossi, referred to in the document as “the accomplices”, “although it could be understood that the removal of one of the aggravations in the legal classification (treachery) would entail a reduction of the sentence imposed in order to an alleged lesser content of unfairness, the truth is that, in this particular case, The weighting carried out by the oral court took into account as increasing only the extent of the damage caused,” they clarified. This detriment has nothing to do with the commissary modality, so there is no need for any modification with respect to the sanctions imposed on the participants, even more so when the penal scale – in the abstract – did not undergo any modification,” the ruling concludes.

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