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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The Guardian

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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The Independent

Eight Argentina rugby players hear sentence in trial for Fernando Baez’s murder

Watch live as a court hands out a verdict for eight men accused of murdering a teenager in Argentina three years ago.

2 months ago·London, United Kingdom

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NDTV

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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Bangkok Post

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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Al Jazeera

Argentina rugby players sentenced in high-profile beating death

The death of 18-year-old Fernando Baez Sosa has spurred debate over the role of race and class in Argentinian society.

2 months ago·Qatar

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Infobae

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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