Five Argentine rugby players sentenced to life for murder: court

Published February 6th, 2023 - 04:46 GMT
View of a picture of the late Fernando Báez Sosa, the 18-year-old son of Paraguayans who was beaten to death in Argentina in 2020, during a mass in his honour on February 5, 2023 in Asuncion. (Photo by NORBERTO DUARTE / AFP)
View of a picture of the late Fernando Báez Sosa, the 18-year-old son of Paraguayans who was beaten to death in Argentina in 2020, during a mass in his honour on February 5, 2023 in Asuncion. (Photo by NORBERTO DUARTE / AFP)

A court in Argentina on Monday sentenced five amateur rugby players from the same team to life imprisonment for beating a young man to death in a crime with racist undertones.

Three more defendants were sentenced to 15 years in prison for taking part in the murder of Fernando Baez Sosa, a young man from a Paraguayan immigrant family.

AFP

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