The lawyer Hugo Tomei charged a 1 and a half million dollars for the defense of the 8 rugby players convicted of the murder of Fernando Baez Sosa, in what happened in January 2020. And in addition to the amount, the origin of the funds to pay the lawyer for his defense was another of the edges that surrounded one of the most notorious police cases of recent times: some sources from politics and the justice of Zarate They link the rugbiers’ lawyer, with the mayor Osvaldo Caffaro and business with public works in the municipality.
Tomei is a partner of Horace Henricot in the most powerful legal study in the city of Zárate. Henricot was the one who promoted a habeas corpus in favor of the rugbiers, alleging that they should be released since gross errors had been made at the beginning of the investigation. However, the habeas corpus failed in all the instances in which it was presented, and although it was presented in 2021 before the Supreme Court of Justice of the NationHe had no movements until today. But it turns out that Henricot is Cáffaro’s lawyer in all the corruption cases that weigh on the municipality.
In addition, the plot becomes even more complex when another character who until now was not being named is taken into account: Rosalía Zárate, mother of Máximo Thomsen, one of the accused rugby players. She was the Secretary of Public Works until the Báez Sosa case occurred, and then she resigned, although many maintain that she continued to sign as if she were an official. Also, voices from said commune affirm that Zárate was for many years a key piece in the scaffolding of the businesses generated with the bidding for works and that she “knows too much”.
Recently, Thomsen, who starred in one of the most viral moments of the sentencing hearing: broke down after the Court handed down his life sentence. “I don’t stay calm until they let me be with him. I have to be with him,” said his mother, who after the episode suffered by her son charged the media, who she accused of “torturing” her son three years ago. years. “This is all a lie, get rid of all the journalists, the whore that gave birth to them,” she yelled indignantly.
According to the judgment of the Court, Máximo Thomsen, Ciro Pertossi, Enzo Comelli, Matías Benicelli and Luciano Pertosi They were sentenced to life imprisonment “co-perpetrators criminally responsible for the crimes of doubly aggravated homicide for the premeditated contest by two or more people and for treachery in an ideal contest with minor injuries.” Ayrton Viollaz, Blas Cinalli and Lucas Pertossias secondary participants, were sentenced to 15 years in prison.
