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Five Argentine rugby players sentenced to life for murder

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Eight amateur rugby players have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for a 2020 murder that shocked Argentina, after an 18-year-old was beaten to death in what critics described as a racist and classist attack.
Published 2 months ago · C A B A, Argentina

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Argentinian rugby players sentenced to life in prison over teen’s murder

Fernando Báez Sosa, son of Paraguayan immigrants, was beaten to death outside a nightclub in a racially motivated attack

2 months ago·London, United Kingdom
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Five Argentine Rugby Players Sentenced To Life For Shocking Murder

A court in Argentina on Monday sentenced five amateur rugby players from the same team to life imprisonment for beating a teenager to death in a crime with alleged racist undertones. Three more defendants were sentenced to 15 years in prison for "secondary participation" in the murder of Fernando Baez Sosa, a law student from a Paraguayan immigrant family, outside a disco three years ago. The high-profile four-week trial at the court in Dolores,…

2 months ago·New Delhi, India
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Five Argentine rugby players sentenced to life for shocking murder

DOLORES (ARGENTINA) - A court in Argentina on Monday sentenced five amateur rugby players from the same team to life imprisonment for beating a teenager to death in a crime with alleged racist undertones.

2 months ago·กทม, Thailand
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Argentina rugby players sentenced in high-profile beating death

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Murder of Fernando Báez Sosa: Five of the rugbiers were sentenced to life and the other three to 15 years in prison

Máximo Thomsen, Ciro Pertossi, Enzo Comelli, Matías Benicelli and Luciano Pertossi were sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime of doubly aggravated homicide for premeditated homicide and treachery in real competition with minor injuries. The remaining defendants received 15-year sentences as secondary participants.

2 months ago·C A B A, Argentina
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