Crime Fernando Báez Sosa: Matías Benicelli speaks for the first time

Days after Máximo Thomsen spoke publicly for the first time about the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa, another of those convicted of the crime, he spoke of the fact for the first time of the event that occurred in 2020.Se case of Matías Benicelli, who expressed himself through a letter released by his lawyer Carlos Attias, where he dissociates himself from the murder and tells what his days are like after being sentenced to life imprisonment for the fact in which he was murdered. the town of Villa Gesell. “I have an older sister who is beautiful and a younger brother who is 17 years old whom I love and miss every day, a loving mother and a father who is my example of work, effort and dignity of life. With them I learned the value of family, to believe in God and to uphold values that today, more than ever, sustain me in the prison where I am,” begins the letter addressed to A24’s Alert 247 program. Then, referring to the facts, he said: “I was never part of a firing squad that kicked Fernando’s life into it. Nor was I one of those who went out to pick fights for Zárate with other groups to boast about those supposed feats. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time because I went on holiday to Villa Gesell with a group of 9 people”In that context, Benicelli continued: “And the causes that I don’t justify, and the actions of some that I never fully understood, absurdly ended the life of a 20-year-old teenager. The same age I was. That’s why I understand the judges who convicted me and, above all, I understand and justify Fernando’s parents. Because they believe that all of us who were there that night were their murderers.”Said. Let us remember that Benicelli was considered by the judges as a co-author of homicide doubly aggravated by treachery and in premeditated concurrence of two or more people and received together with Máximo Thomsen, Ciro Pertossi, Enzo Comelli, and Luciano Pertossi the sentence of life imprisonment. Meanwhile, Ayrton Viollaz, Blas Cinalli and Lucas Pertossi received 15-year prison sentences as secondary participants. He added: “I have no hope that God’s mercy will restore peace to us and impart justice where men cannot reach. And may Fernando’s death be remembered as that of a martyr, who offered everything he had, his life, so that violence may be eradicated forever from all public and private places where young people gather to celebrate life and not to invoke death.”Pointed out. Finally, and exculpating himself from the fact, he offered an apology, although he dissociated himself from the murder of the young man who died because of a fight at the exit of a bowling alley: “Asking for forgiveness seems hypocritical when it doesn’t come straight from the heart. St. Francis said, ‘It is necessary to love in order to be loved, to forgive, in order to be forgiven.’ I know I didn’t kill Fernando, but I apologize from the bottom of my heart on behalf of all those who caused his tragic disappearance. My solidarity and my love is with Fernando’s parents, as it is also with my family.”

Original source in Spanish