Eight Argentine Rugby Players On Trial For Killing Teenager
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Eight Argentine rugby players from a small provincial club in
Zarate went on trial on Monday for allegedly beating a teenager to death three
years ago.
The brutal murder took place outside a nightclub when
they attacked an 18-year-old Fernando Baez from behind and beat him to death
on the ground, according to AFP.
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Argentine authorities said images of the attack were caught on
surveillance cameras and by the phone of one of the defendants.
The
eight defendants, aged between 21 and 23, risk life in prison if convicted.
They have been in pre-trial detention since the attack.
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According to the report, an argument ensued between two groups of people
inside a nightclub in the popular seaside resort of Villa Gesell on January
18, 2020.
And the eight defendants allegedly attacked Baez, after
they had been ejected by door staff.
“(They) continued to strike
him even when he was practically unconscious, causing injuries that resulted
in death,” said prosecutor Juan Manuel Davilia at the court in Dolores, some
200km south of Buenos Aires.
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“They took the decision to kill and they killed,” said Baez family’s lawyer
Fernando Burlando.
Some 150 witnesses have been called to trial,
which is expected to last three weeks.
The assailants were alleged
by witnesses to have shouted racist insults at the victim as they struck
him.
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