The trial of the rugbiers, minute by minute: the autopsy coroner explained the brutal way in which Fernando died

After Duarte’s statement, the trial goes to a short intermission period.

The official photos taken in the morgue of the Pinamar Hospital were projected on the screen in the courtroom.

“As seen on the body, the marks it presented, the external injuries, coincide with the high-energy mechanisms that cause instantaneous death in the patient,” Duarte continued: “The majority of the blows were on the face and skull. They are central areas because most of the body’s functions are housed there,” he continued.

“The brain stem was what presented the most damage,” he concluded.

At the defense’s request, the coroner stood up to point out the defibrillator mark on the body.

“You cannot measure the intensity of the blows at autopsy. The number of blows the victim received cannot be determined either,” Duarte said after being consulted by Tomei.

Duarte has been a traumatologist and medical expert for the Pinamar Scientific Police for seven years.

Before the court, what happened on January 18 after the question of the prosecutor Gustavo García:

“We work with a protocol that I complied with. The autopsy was carried out in the morgue of the Pinamar hospital. I first saw the victim in Villa Gesell. I became aware of the case, I found out that Fernando was in the Villa Gesell hospital and since I live on the corner of the hospital, I crossed to see how he was doing. I did a preliminary examination to have a visualization of what I was going to find in the autopsy. Fernando was lying on a bed, he had multiple attacks on the part of his face. I asked for a CT scan to see a general picture of what was on the body. The result took a while to arrive. I saw him and he had a significant hemorrhage inside his skull. In addition, I took images with my private cell phone to have an approximation of the characteristics of the injuries that I still have on my phone”, he said.

Prosecutor García asked the Court that the witness show the photos he keeps on his cell phone.

Lawyer Tomei requested a “reasonable time” to analyze the images that were not previously incorporated. “It’s a surprise that affects us too much,” Tomei said. Then, the Court unanimously refused to incorporate those photos into the file.

Forensic Duarte, author of the autopsy, begins to testify.

Fernando’s parents leave the room.

Lucas Pertossi in the foreground with Blas Cinalli, behind, Ayrton Viollaz, Máximo Thomsen and Enzo Comelli (Ezequiel Acuña)

Carolina Giribaldi Larrosa has been a general practitioner and emergency physician for 18 years at the Municipal Hospital of Villa Gesell.

Before the court, he recounted that on the morning of the 18th he received a call to 107 at 5. “We went by ambulance and found this young man with no vital signs. He was being assisted by staff. I did not identify if he was from the fire department. They were doing CPR on him. He had placed an AED on her. This is a very easy to use automatic defibrillator,” he said. The ambulance, according to her, took between seven and nine minutes to arrive.

Asked about how it was found that Fernando had no vital signs, the woman replied: “He had no respiratory movement and no pulse.”

On the trip to the hospital, he said, they continued to perform CPR and oxygen because he had no vital signs.

Thus, the prosecutor Dávila asked him about the protocols applied in these cases. The witness stated that CPR must be practiced for 40 minutes.

“I make the verification of the vital sinuses between 5.07 or 5.09. At that moment the automated external defibrillator (AED) reported: ‘Patient in asystole. Continue cardiac massage.’ Every time I stopped to look at the monitor, that is, if there was any response from the heart, the device would say the same thing again. When the patient is in asystole, the AED does not trigger. He only does it when the rhythm picks up. If that had happened, the DEA would have registered it and indicated that I should move away to return to a normal rhythm, ”explained the witness. She also said that the AED she used was from the fire department.

“Unfortunately there was no response. When I arrived at the hospital, I transferred the patient to another doctor, Silvia Romero, who was waiting for him in the shock room, ”she continued.

The prosecutor asks him about Fernando’s skull injury, described by coroner Duarte in the autopsy. The witness says that when there is a massive brain hemorrhage there is no chance of survival. “The brain stem is fundamental. Irreversible cardiac arrest: the heart can be stimulated manually, but it does not have its own stimulus. The same goes for the respiratory system. It is impossible for someone to survive if he has an injury to a respiratory or cardiac center, ”she continued.

The defibrillator could not be reapplied, he stated. Basically, it could never be applied because the device works when the heart starts working again.

Asked about the victim’s condition, she said: “She had blood stains on her nose and mouth, but it was not abundant. He had no shirt, but pants. He was lying on the ground and there were many people around. No one explained to me what had happened.” Regarding the injuries to the victim’s face and neck, the witness said that they were large and longitudinal bruises. “There was an unusual, weird, zigzag-shaped mark on the side of the cheek,” she said. in reference to the injury compatible with the shoe later attributed to Máximo Thomsen.

When it was Hugo Tomei’s turn to ask questions, the defense lawyer wanted to know how the ambulance was equipped and how many people had carried Fernando on the stretcher.

The witness responded: “The ambulance had a respirator, an oxygen tube, a DEA -which was not used in this case-, a briefcase with medication and items that are used, such as gauze. Several people took it. I’m sure the driver, another firefighter I recognized because he is the hospital driver and the nurse. At least those three people, I’m sure, ”she replied.

Giribaldi, on the other hand, was not consulted or expressed the exact moment in which Fernando was legally pronounced dead.

Carolina Giribaldi, in white (Ezequiel Acuña)The defendants, without a chinstrap (Ezequiel Acuña)

The defendants entered the room at 10:34.

After sitting down, surrounded by the strict custody of the SPB, the eight rugbiers took off their chinstraps, just as they had done last week: Máximo Thomsen was the first to do so.

The chinstrap is not mandatory inside the courtroom. It was required by Court No. 1 presided over by Judge Claudia Castro at the first hearing. On the other hand, if it is part of the SPB transfer protocol.

Carolina Silvana Giribaldi Larrosa, the ambulance doctor who arrived at the scene, is the first witness to testify.

Forensic Diego Duarte at the trial of the rugbiers for the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa.

Forensic Diego Duarte came to court.

Marcos Pertossi, Marcial Thomsen and Sergio Viollaz, parents of the accused, also arrived at the scene.

Silvino Báez Sosa confirmed to this medium that he and his partner will be present in the room this morning. Then Tomás D’Alessandro, a friend of Fernando’s, who participated as a witness in the process last week, entered. It is the fourth hearing that he has attended.

Tomey and Emilia Pertossi, defense attorneys. (Ezekiel Acuna)

The prosecutor Juan Manuel Dávila arrived at the courts. He assured that the focus of today’s session will be the autopsy on Fernando’s body, carried out six hours after the crime.

“The expert is going to expose what are the causes of death,” said the prosecutor.

Due to the nature of the material to be exhibited, the presence of Báez Sosa’s parents is in doubt. “The idea is that they stay, maybe they will come out when the autopsy doctor comes in,” they say close to them.

Several lawyers are delayed by heavy traffic on the nearby roads. Hugo Tomei arrived shortly after 9:25.

Cortinas: the mobile of the SPB that transports the rugbiers (Ezequiel Acuña)

Shortly after 7:45 a.m., the eight rugby players accused of beating Fernando Báez Sosa to death arrived at the Dolores courts for hearing number six of the trial against him, transferred from the area prison, ten blocks away. .

Ten witnesses are expected throughout the day. The first will be Diego Duarte, the author of the autopsy carried out in the morgue of the Pinamar hospital and the also forensic Silvana di Piero, in charge of the histopathological study that detailed the internal injuries found in the corpse. Then, it will be the turn of several judicial and MPF officials who acted in the case, as well as municipal personnel who analyzed security cameras.

Carina Giribaldi, the ambulance doctor who assisted Fernando in front of the Le Brique bowling alley, is on the list for the day.

Also, an expert summoned by the complaint by Fernando Burlando and the prosecutors will detail analyzes carried out on blood samples of the accused.

Duarte identified severe head trauma, a very strong blow to the head that caused internal bleeding and immediate death. In terms of the file, he assured that Fernando “would have died of cardiac arrest, produced by NEPHROGENIC SHOCK due to SERIOUS SKULL INJURY.”

The blow, according to the diagnosis, caused a “massive intraparenchymal intracranial hemorrhage without bone fracture.”

Trial of the rugbiers: the coroner’s testimony is expected about the chilling marks that Fernando’s body had

Among others, the coroner Diego Duarte, author of the autopsy, declares. In the framework of the process against the eight accused of the murder, the teenager’s parents, his friends and those who saw the beating have already testified

The rugbiers at the exit of the Le Brique bowling alley, video presented in the trial for the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa

The second week of the trial of the eight rugbiers accused of beating Fernando Báez Sosa to death will have as its central axis the forensic evidence developed throughout the file. After listening to the parents of the murdered teenager, his friends and eyewitnesses to the beating, on Monday he will testify before the Oral Criminal Court No. 1 of Dolores Diego Duarte, the author of the autopsy.

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