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Netflix Debuts '50 Segundos' on Fernando Báez Sosa, Prompting Outcry Over Omitted Witness

Statements from six convicted attackers in the three-part series renew scrutiny of editorial choices.

Overview

  • - Netflix released the three-episode documentary on November 13, revisiting the 2020 killing in Villa Gesell with archival footage, trial material and new interviews.
  • - Six of the eight convicted men speak from custody, with Máximo Thomsen, Enzo Comelli and members of the Pertossi family expressing shame or remorse, and Ayrton Viollaz contributing by audio.
  • - The film features intimate testimony from Fernando’s mother, Graciela Sosa, who recounts their final exchange and shows the last photo she took of her son.
  • - Viewers and commentators criticized the production for excluding Virginia Pérez Antonelli, the then-17-year-old who performed CPR, and she publicly denounced the omission.
  • - Reporting underscores that security-camera and cellphone videos were pivotal in securing the verdicts that imposed life sentences on five defendants and 15-year terms on three others.