Rodríguez Alzueta: “The trial for the murder of Báez Sosa has become spectacular”

The lawyer and writer Esteban Rodriguez Alzuetaopined that it is necessary to be able to interpret the Trial for the crime of Fernando Báez Sosa within the framework of a crisis of representation that also affects Justice. The details of the case are Fontevecchia modefor net tv Y RadioProfile (FM 101.9).

In a report that was made for the Paco Urondo Agency, you said that “a large part of the punitive claims are the consequence of the inability of the Justice to process the problems of the citizenry”, and that “resentment is turning the rugby players into scapegoats.” Could you elaborate a little on these concepts?

The Trial for the murder of Fernando Báez Sosa breaks into the middle of a long-lasting judicial crisis process. It seems important to me to interpret the context to understand the social pressure that exists on the sentence.

The crisis of representation in Argentina it is not patrimony of politics. People also mistrust Justice, it is a crisis of confidence that has many reasons.

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The distrust is explained in that Justice does not channel people’s problems. There is an important sector of society that cannot access Justice to solve its problems and, when it does, the sentence not only arrives late, but is often written in a language that is not understood.

Anyone who has had a problem and knows what that problem is about, then consult a lawyer and stop understanding. People begin to look at Justice with strangeness and distrust.

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We began the opening of this program, within the framework of the three-year anniversary of the assassination of Fernando Báez Sosa, asking ourselves “What is the important?”, given that, for the audience, police cases like this are much more convening than the economic, political and social issues on the agenda. Whenever there is a policeman who produces such great attention, is it because behind him there is some representation of some social conflict?

The trial for the murder of Fernando has been spectacularized. When this happens, it is the opportunity for important social sectors to “pass the bill” to Justice. Actors who are in that trial, who are aired before the television cameras, the opportunity to say “I exist”, to present the problems to the rest of public opinion.

The trial must be read alongside judicial distrust, alongside insecurity and other problems that are not usually addressed by politics. The trial becomes an echo chamber to say “I have this problem”, and it takes its toll, not only on judicial officials, but also on politics.

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