The trial that has the country in suspense reached its verdict, five of the attackers against Fernando Báez Sosa were sentenced to life imprisonment as primary participants and three of the attackers sentenced to 15 years in prison as secondary participants.
Since the trial began, a factor that could have changed the course of the sad event was not contemplated, and this non-contemplation may lead us to cry for more “Fernandos” in Argentina in the future.
Why do the bowling alley and the security people (patovicas) who worked that day only lament? Public opinion, lawyers and Justice seem to have almost naturalized that a bowling alley and its patovicas can witness such aggression (they had to throw out one of the attackers resorting to two security people for such resistance and aggression) without having acted more actively to prevent the violence from taking its course outside the dance venue, as it did.
What does the law say and when could the five rugby players sentenced to life be released from prison?
If we are guided by events, those responsible for the nightclub found it appropriate to disengage from a fight charged with aggression once the adolescents were already out of the place. It should be remembered that the staff of the dance establishment found themselves meters away from the ferocious attack on Fernando in the street, which culminated in his death.
Myopic lawyers and judges? A civil society that only pays attention to conflicts between private parties but does not demand anything when it comes to the controls that must be imposed in public surroundings?
The cruel offensive of the eight attackers against Fernando, is an attack that focuses on how eight families horribly raised their children, who turned out to be so violent as to become murderers and kill a young man who went dancing at Villa Gesell. But what happened in the most public sphere, nothing is questioned. The eight violent rugby players were inside a bowling alley, which we listened to as the lawyers admitted that it was so packed with people that it was difficult to discern if a push was a push or it was an accidental bump into the other.
Sierra Chica, the violent prison where the rugbiers convicted of the crime of Báez Sosa could go
First point, does overpopulation in places where adolescents go to depend on adolescents seem like a minor detail? Second point, the defendants wanted to hide behind the fact that they had drunk too much alcohol, and this was proven to be a lie and that they were with their mental faculties in a position to discern that they were injuring and killing. But if it had happened as so many times that young people consumed too much alcohol, is there any regulation for nightclubs to sell alcohol with some kind of limitation? And if it exists, is it fulfilled? Or is it controlled that drugs do not circulate? Third point already mentioned and decisive
For some it irritates that they tell us that some of the patovicas were crying when the oral trial began.
A number of children, grandchildren, nephews continue to go to dance clubs, and deranged and violent adolescents who injure and kill will continue to exist. And they will continue, hopefully, being sentenced to spend long years in prison. What could cease to exist (and would help many deranged and violent people to stop murdering) are those nightclubs with staff that do not protect adolescents when a major conflict appears, and that do not resort to greater control and care, and only they get ready to throw out the violent together with the violated.
Life sentence, “weak justice” and fainting: the day the murderers of Fernando Báez Sosa were sentenced
With the murder of the boy Lucio by his mother and his mother’s murderous partner, a bill was presented in Congress to vote on the Lucio Law, the name of the murdered little boy. And I wonder if a Fernando Law should only contemplate instructing violent young people who hang out in nightclubs. Surely you can choose this sentence, but the violent who were raised as violent many times do not measure their overflows and aggression in real time in the midst of the adrenaline of the night, the drinks, the music and the pineapples.
Legislation for the murderers of a teenager to “rot in jail”, we have to apply it and it was applied. What could very well make the difference is that there is some type of legislation that does not exist, so that the owners and staff of nightclubs are trained to dismantle aggressive acts that escalate, for example, they have the obligation to call the police to intervene if the situation gets out of hand, and/or call the relatives of those who are violent, that there is some kind of protocol that does not only consist of expelling the aggressors and that the hostility continues meters from the place.
The eight murderers to prison, it’s fair. Fernando dead, it’s dramatic. And obscure points in relation to bowling alleys, to establishments that our adolescents frequent every weekend, should not be questioned.
* Political Science and Professor at the UBA. www.sandrach.com.ar
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