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[Archival audio]: El Abuelo, the leader of the barra brava, is charged with extortion and criminal association. The barra members are charged with the homicide of Walter Vallejos and Ángel Delgado, killed in an ambush after a match between River and Boca on April 30, 1994.
[Silvia Viñas]: It’s Friday, March 14, 1997. Almost three years have passed since the crimes at the superclásico. All the accused barra members except one have been arrested and are in prison, including el Abuelo. The prosecutor’s office gathered testimony, carried out forensic analyses to reconstruct what happened, and concluded there was enough evidence for the case to go to trial. So, that Friday in March ’97, the proceedings began. But not just anywhere. They take place in the same courtroom where, in 1985, the most important trial in Argentine history was held: the Trial of the Juntas, in which the military leadership of the last dictatorship was convicted.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: Very few trials were held in the federal appeals court’s courtroom.
[Silvia Viñas]: This is Marcelo Parrilli, the lawyer for two of the people wounded on the day of the superclásico, and also for the families of the two who were killed, Ángel Delgado and Walter Vallejos.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: And after that, I don’t remember any other trial. There must have been some, but I don’t remember other trials in that courtroom.
[Silvia Viñas]: It’s a very large courtroom on the ground floor of the Palace of Justice in the city of Buenos Aires, and it’s only used for high-profile cases like this one. There are no recordings of the trial, but Parrilli wrote a book about the whole process. That’s how important it was.
[Archival audio]: The public oral trial court that will try José Barritta and eight Boca fans is made up of three women.
[Silvia Viñas]: Three women judging an entire barra brava. Interestingly, the presiding judge is Isabel Poerio de Arslanian, the wife of the judge who sent the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla and the rest of the commanders to prison in 1985. Like the one to the military, this is another historic trial. Here’s how Gustavo Grabia, a journalist expert on barras, explains it:
[Gustavo Grabia]: It was a watershed trial. It was the first time that the entire top tier of a barra, in this case Boca’s barra brava, the most important in the country, was going to sit in the defendants’seats.
[Archival audio, Dionisia Delgado]: And I’m very emotional to have reached this day, that I’ve been able to bear the pain of my loss so I could be here today. I trust in the justice system, and justice will be done.
[Silvia Viñas]: That’s the voice of Dionisia, the mother of Ángel Delgado, one of the murdered fans. We heard her a few episodes ago. She’s at the courthouse door, waiting for everything to finally begin.
[Archival audio, Jorge Cárdenas]: All I want is to hear the final verdict, when the eight killers are sentenced to life in prison, which is what the lawyer is going to ask for, and José Barritta to 10 years in prison.
[Silvia Viñas]: And this is Jorge Cárdenas, the uncle of Walter Vallejos, the other River fan murdered after the superclásico. Jorge pushed hard for the case to go to trial because his sister, Carmen Cárdenas, Walter’s mother, died a year and a half before the trial. She had been deeply affected by what happened to her son.
[Fernando Scalone]: At the first hearing, it was shocking. It was shocking to see them there, so close up.
[Silvia Viñas]: Fernando Scalone, Walter’s best friend, is also in the courtroom. It’s the first time he and the murdered fans’ families see the faces of the accused. Fernando remembers how the nine detained members of La 12, Boca’s barra brava, entered the courtroom.
[Fernando Scalone]: They came in one by one, they started greeting each other, they were greeting the people sitting next to us too, because they were relatives of the detainees, you know? They greeted each other, kissed each other, laughed, made jokes, looked at us, sized us up.
[Silvia Viñas]: In other words, they look at them out of the corner of their eye, furtively. In the audience are the victims’ families, but there are also other members of La 12 who are free.
[Miguel Ángel Pierri]: I remember that metal detectors were installed at the entrance to the courtroom for the first time.
[Silvia Viñas]: This is Miguel Ángel Pierri, the lawyer for two of the barra members during the trial. The atmosphere is tense.
[Miguel Ángel Pierri]: We were trying to get through a trial that the whole world was watching.
[Gustavo Grabia]: It was a circus. On the first day, all the media were there: radio, television, print.
[Silvia Viñas]: Nobody wants to miss the image of el Abuelo, the leader of the barra, walking in handcuffs. He’s been in custody for almost three years.
[Gustavo Grabia]: Even though Boca’s barra had been left leaderless three years earlier, in ’97, when the trial had begun, José Barritta remains the emblem of soccer.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: The courtroom was packed. The courtroom was packed– It’s a big courtroom that holds almost 800 people.
[Miguel Ángel Pierri]: It was an event that shook the whole nation. It was really the first time that something of this nature had happened in the context of soccer, of sports.
[Silvia Viñas]: The members of Boca’s barra brava, the most powerful in Argentina, are about to sit before the court to defend themselves. Whatever it takes. These will be days of threats and betrayals, and the outcome will hinge on the testimony of one key witness.
From Central Series and Radio Ambulante Studios, I’m Silvia Viñas, and this is «Superclásico 94.»
Episode 7: They Flew Off Like Pigeons
By the late ’90s, Marcelo Parrilli was a lawyer with a lot of experience.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: I had been working at the Center for Legal and Social Studies, one of the human rights organizations acting throughout the entire genocidal civic-military dictatorship.
[Silvia Viñas]: In 1981, during that dictatorship, he was detained along with several colleagues for his legal work and for the complaints he filed demanding information about the disappeared.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: So I was already used to, let’s say, high pressure situations.
[Silvia Viñas]: Mariano Pagella continues the story.
[Mariano Pagella]: When Jorge Cárdenas, Walter Vallejos’s uncle, went to ask Parrilli for help proving that members of La 12 had taken part in the killings after the superclásico, the lawyer didn’t hesitate.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: Of course, I took it on. I don’t think I ever told him, «I’m going to take the case.» I just started working.
[Mariano Pagella]: They made a strong pair. As we said before, when Jorge’s sister (Walter’s mother) died, he took up the cause of his nephew’s death and became the voice of the ongoing demand for justice.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: Jorge Cárdenas was the great social activist behind that demand, you know? He was the one who made the rounds of the media. He fought the battle at the highest levels. That is, not only in the media, but also by contacting soccer officials and community leaders, and bringing the families together.
[Mariano Pagella]: Ángel Delgado’s mother, Dionisia, became very close to Walter’s uncle.
[Dionisia Delgado]: We supported each other to go everywhere. And he was fantastic for that, because nothing made him waver. I don’t know where he got that strength he had, that he had to get justice for his nephew.
[Archival audio, Jorge Cárdenas]: José Barritta was suspected, based on the testimony, of being implicated, and of knowing that the murders were going to happen.
[Mariano Pagella]: This is Jorge before entering the courtroom on the first day of the trial, March 14, 1997.
[Archival audio, Jorge Cárdenas]: And with the witnesses they had, with all the evidence, the prosecutor still asked for the charges against him to be dismissed.
[Mariano Pagella]: He’s protesting because Prosecutor Asaro decided to charge el Abuelo with extortion and with leading a criminal association, but not with the murders of Walter and Ángel. That was one of the key points of the case, and it would determine the sentence Barritta could receive. Then there are the other eight barra members. Besides being charged with criminal association, they face charges of aggravated homicide, for having committed it with treachery and with premeditation, by two or more people. In other words, for killing the River fans in an ambush and for having planned it together.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: I think they realized things weren’t in their favor. They were in a difficult position, you know?
[Mariano Pagella]: The courtroom is very large and old, with walls paneled in dark wood. The bench where the three judges sit also has wooden chairs with high backs. In front of them is a small table with a microphone, where the people testifying sit. Just behind it is another table, a huge one, covered with a worn green cloth. That’s where the 21 lawyers for the defense, the prosecution, and the victims’ side sit, all side by side. That means that every time one of them wants to get up, the rest have to stand to let them through.
Behind that table, there’s a railing that separates the lawyers from the nine detainees. They’re sitting with their backs to the audience, on a row of seats. The barra members are guarded by officers from an elite unit of the Federal Police and from the Penitentiary Service.
Those seats are occupied by Miguel «Manzanita» Santoro, Jorge «Corbacho» Villagarcía, Edgardo «El Chino» Allende, Javier «El Uruguayo» Bellusci Martínez, Freddy «Bolita Niponi» Cáceres, and Darío «Gomina» Almirón, the accused. There are two charged barra members who aren’t at the trial: «Querida» Quintero died before it began, and Francis di Maio, a former police officer, was captured after the trial had already started.
The group of barra members on trial is rounded out by Fabián «Marcelo de Lomas» Aravena and Juan «Dany» Silva, who are being prosecuted as participants in the killings.
And next to them is José Barritta, «El Abuelo.»
Behind the barra members are Jorge, Dionisia, and the rest of the victims’ and the defendants’ families.
[Fernando Scalone]: We went to the trial to be there for them, to see it, and because we couldn’t leave the mother, the sister, on their own. Two or three of us went with them.
[Mariano Pagella]: Fernando Scalone, Walter Vallejos’s friend, goes to the hearings with Juan Carlitos, their other friend. We heard both of them in the first episodes.
[Fernando Scalone]: We sat in the fourth, fifth row, in the middle, close together, because we were the only ones; everyone else was their family and friends.
[Mariano Pagella]: That is, the barra members’ family and friends. After the break, the members of La 12 begin to testify.
[Mariano Pagella]: The first barra member whose turn it is to speak at the trial is «Corbacho» Villagarcía, but he exercises his right not to testify. Then «El Uruguayo» Bellusci says that on the day of the crime he was at the stadium «alone,» that he knows the other defendants «by sight,» that he never saw weapons in the stands, and that after the match he went home. And then it’s «Manzanita» Santoro’s turn. As we told you in another episode, Manzanita is one of the barra members closest to el Abuelo. They’d get together at his house before and after matches, and that’s where they hid their banners.
[Mariano Pagella]: Manzanita begins his testimony trying to win sympathy. He maintains he was just a fan. And to make that case, he describes the first time he went to see Boca: also at a superclásico against River, but when he was very young.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: He said his father took him that day and that it was the first time he went to Boca’s stadium. That it was a day, well, I don’t remember the exact day, but it was a rainy day, I remember that.
[Mariano Pagella]: Parrilli, the victims’ lawyer, remembers it because he knows quite a lot about soccer.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: And I remember the score too. That day River lost 5–2.
[Mariano Pagella]: That match was in February 1974, and it’s very hard for fans to forget, because four of those five goals were scored by a player making his debut with Boca. Four goals in his first clásico against their great rival.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: So, well, he was telling all this, partly to show that he’d been at the stadium that day.
[Mariano Pagella]: Maybe because Parrilli looks like a buttoned-up lawyer, or out of simple prejudice, Manzanita thinks he has no idea what he’s talking about.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: So, while he was testifying, he said to me, «I don’t know if you heard about it.» I said, «Yes, yes, yes, yes, I heard about it, because I’m a River supporter.»
[Mariano Pagella]: A River supporter.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: And then, you know, an «oooooh» went around the whole courtroom.
[Mariano Pagella]: Some barra members in the audience don’t seem to take Parrilli’s revelation very well.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: It’s those ridiculous things, you know? Because it seemed like the worst thing was that I was a River fan. If they’d found out that Muratore, Barritta’s defense lawyer, was also a River fan, they would have been even more surprised.
[Mariano Pagella]: Manzanita continues his account. He talks about the day of the crime after the superclásico in April ’94. He denies taking part in the attack on the fans; he says he was near that area and saw a group go by, but that he never joined them. That’s where his testimony ends. A while later, another barra member says he wasn’t at the crime scene either. And Bolita Niponi and Marcelo Aravena, two of the barra’s biggest «heavies,» refuse to testify. And so the first hearing ends.
After the weekend, the trial continues. There’s more testimony from barra members. The audience and the journalists listen, but they’re waiting for them to finish, because one of the most important moments is coming: the testimony of the boss, el Abuelo.
It’s 1:33 p.m. when el Abuelo starts walking slowly to the stand. He’s wearing a white shirt and dark pants. He sits down in front of the judges, and one of the court assistants adjusts his microphone. You can hear him clear his throat, and in a hoarse voice he says, «My name is Barritta, with two r’s and two t’s. I was born in Calabria, Italy, on January 5, 1953.»
The presiding judge explains that he has the right not to speak, and that this doesn’t mean admitting to the charges against him. She reads him the crimes he’s accused of: extortion and criminal association. And when she finishes, el Abuelo leans into the microphone and says, «For the moment, I’m not going to testify.»
The strategy of not speaking is meant to let the presumption of innocence prevail. If there’s no clear evidence against him, he doesn’t need to defend himself against the crimes. And by staying silent, he also doesn’t have to answer questions from the victims’ lawyers. But it doesn’t turn out to be the best decision.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: What happens? If you say you’re not going to testify, then what you stated during the pretrial investigation is entered into the record. What you stated during the pretrial investigation is read aloud.
[Mariano Pagella]: That is, when he was arrested. More than two years earlier.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: Right. What you state, or what people often state, in an office with a clerk isn’t the same as what they’d state in a courtroom with eight hundred people listening to what you’re saying.
[Mariano Pagella]: So after el Abuelo says he’s not going to speak, the court clerk begins to read aloud, in a measured tone, as if to make sure it’s heard loud and clear, everything Barritta had confessed to Prosecutor Asaro and Judge Quiroga two years earlier, when he was arrested.
In that statement, Barritta said he’d been leading Boca Juniors’ fans «inside the stadium» for 13 years. But he didn’t like being called a «barra brava,» because that was a label the press had given them. He explained that among his duties was cheering on the team and giving «the boys» advice, quote, «for good, never for bad.»
He also said that on the day of the superclásico, he’d met with several members of La 12 at a pizzeria near Manzanita Santoro’s place to organize where to put the banners and the balloons and to «throw the party» in the stands.
Then he added that they left for the stadium together and arrived a couple of hours before kickoff. That they were nervous because it was a Boca-River match, and that during the game, despite the loss, everything went as usual. But when it ended, some barra members told him they had to go beat up the players, and others wanted to go after River’s barra. Barritta testified that he refused and turned his back on them.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: «They were with me,» he said. «I turned around at one point to look toward the field. And when I looked back toward where they’d been, they had flown off like pigeons.»
[Mariano Pagella]: They had left, «like when all the pigeons fly off in Plaza de Mayo.» Those are his exact words. A phrase that would be remembered for a long time.
[Gustavo Grabia]: As if to say, «What do you want me to do? I couldn’t control anything because they weren’t even there anymore, even though I’d told them no.»
[Mariano Pagella]: Gustavo Grabia, the journalist who’s an expert on barras. That phrase, «they flew off like pigeons,» refers to the other defendants, but it also has implications for Barritta’s legal situation.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: He denied having planned it, denied having organized it that day.
[Mariano Pagella]: El Abuelo’s words change the mood of the trial. This is how Fernando, the friend of Walter Vallejos, one of the murdered fans, remembers it:
[Fernando Scalone]: You start hearing him rat people out. He starts ratting out this guy, that guy. He starts blaming the same buddies who, just a few days before, were kissing each other and laughing. At that moment you even started hearing murmurs in the courtroom, as if to say, «What’s he saying? What did he say?»
[Marcelo Parrilli]: It caused a lot of resentment, and that continued throughout the trial, because he was clearly shifting all the responsibility onto his right-hand men.
[Fernando Scalone]: The families themselves, listening to el Abuelo’s statement, started exclaiming, «How could he say this about my son? How could he say this about my brother?»
[Gustavo Grabia]: And they start accusing each other at the trial, which is straight out of a Hollywood movie, something nobody could have imagined.
[Fernando Scalone]: I think that’s when the freedom of each of them started to be in danger, and then it was every man for himself. Each of them wanted to save his own ass. «Oh, you’re blaming me? Then I’m blaming you. I wasn’t there. No, you were there. It wasn’t me. You fired. I didn’t fire.» That’s when everything went south.
[Mariano Pagella]: «I Couldn’t Stop Them,» «During the Investigation, el Abuelo Had Implicated Them,» «The ‘It Wasn’t Me’ Strategy.» These are some of the newspaper headlines the next day covering el Abuelo’s statement.
[Gustavo Grabia]: That’s when the pact of silence that had existed until then among the rest of the barra breaks, because the rest of the barra members’ line was, «We didn’t do anything. We didn’t do anything. We didn’t do anything.»
[Fernando Scalone]: And even among themselves, that brotherly barra greeting from the first hearing was gone. From then on, it was all hateful looks among them, and they wanted to eat us alive.
[Mariano Pagella]: Everything that happens on that second day of the trial is a bombshell. But the revelations don’t end there. Remember that el Abuelo decided not to testify, so the court clerk reads aloud what Barritta had confessed when he was arrested two years earlier. And in that statement, el Abuelo didn’t just cut his buddies loose. He said a lot more. He gave details about how the barra worked.
He said that he, as head of La 12, met with police chiefs to coordinate security operations for the matches; that Boca’s president gave him 200 or 250 tickets so other barra members could get in for free; that other club officials contributed money to the barra, giving them money for trips to the provinces or for a trip to a World Cup. In just a few paragraphs, he revealed his ties to power.
[Gustavo Grabia]: What surprised me was the political reach and the protection that Boca’s barra brava had. It was, I don’t know, it was as if you were watching the trial of Don Corleone.
[Mariano Pagella]: We’ll take one last break and be right back.
[Diego Buenaño]: We get the summons to testify. It wasn’t optional. We had to go testify no matter what, as witnesses. It was mandatory.
[Mariano Pagella]: We met Diego Buenaño in the first episode. He’s the River fan who nearly died on the day of the superclásico. He told us how he was wounded while riding in the truck at the end of the match. At first he thought he’d been hit by a rock, but it turned out to be a bullet that perforated his intestine in three places and went in and out of his liver. Two years later, the families’ lawyers got in touch with his dad.
[Diego Buenaño]: And that’s when Parrilli calls us, well, calls my old man. He was the one bringing together all the wounded and the families of the dead to have a common, collective case.
[Mariano Pagella]: So Diego went to Parrilli’s office to talk about what he could contribute at the trial.
[Diego Buenaño]: First I talked to an assistant. And I told her, «Look, I didn’t see anything.» At that point I felt I wasn’t a very useful witness, because I tell her, «I didn’t see anything. No, I can’t tell you anything about what happened.» And then she tells me, I don’t remember if it was him or her, she tells me, «No, no, forget about that. What we need is to sit you there so they realize you weren’t barras bravas, that’s all. That’s all we want.»
[Mariano Pagella]: The idea was for the judges to see Diego and hear him speak a little, and to understand that the victims were ordinary fans.
[Diego Buenaño]: «What we need is to prove that this wasn’t a clash between barras bravas and that you guys aren’t barras bravas.» And she says, «I’ll sit you there and they’ll realize it in three minutes.» I tell her, «Well, OK, if that’s how it is, I’ll go.» And that’s it, that’s how it went.
[Mariano Pagella]: And so Diego, who’s 24 at the time, arrives for the third hearing.
[Diego Buenaño]: What I do remember about that moment is that I was sitting kind of sideways. And I had the judges to my right, and to my left, in the first row, was the whole barra, all the defendants.
[Mariano Pagella]: El Abuelo, Manzanita… They’re just a few yards away from him.
[Diego Buenaño]: And I remember all I could think was, «I can’t look at them. I can’t look at them.» Then I’d look at them and say, «Uh-oh, I looked at them. I can’t look again.» I’d look at them again, and «Uh-oh, I can’t look.» That’s all I was thinking, that I didn’t want to look at them. And I think it was more out of fear than anything else.
[Mariano Pagella]: The judges ask Diego basic questions: whether he can describe what happened, whether he can recognize any of the people there. Diego answers no, and that’s it.
[Diego Buenaño]: I was like, «I want to leave. I want to go home. That’s it. It’s over. For me, it’s over.»
[Mariano Pagella]: And it was over for him. But Diego isn’t the only victim. Nine other wounded people testify that day, and over the following hearings, other fans who were at the corner of Huergo and Brasil, where the shooting happened, join them. Most of them had clung to the truck to get away from the area around La Bombonera. The most striking account is from Juan Ramón Fernández, who told the court how he stayed with one of his friends, who was badly wounded.
At one point when the truck sped up, Juan Ramón almost fell off. He scraped his leg, but people helped him back up. Once he was back on, he saw a man in a Boca jersey up ahead kneel down and fire a gun.
At that moment, he realized one of his friends was covered in blood, with a bullet hole in his chest. He grabbed him, and they both threw themselves off the truck, rolled along the ground, and ended up sprawled against a wall.
By then, both of their clothes were soaked in blood. As they lay there, still unable to react, two armed barra members came up to them, looked at them, and one said to the other, «Leave them, these two are already goners.» In other words, they didn’t shoot them because they took them for dead.
The victims’ accounts are heard over several hearings. They show the fear and horror of the attacks. As all of this comes to light, the barra members’ situation becomes even more complicated. There’s a lot of evidence and testimony against them, but the most damning is still missing.
[Archival audio]: The key witness can’t be found. The defense’s strategy was to ask that the informant’s testimony be declared void. But the court decided to consider it on the 26th, the day he’s been summoned to testify.
[Mariano Pagella]: They’re talking about Darío Vesselizza Randi, the barra informant we heard in Episode 4.
Darío is a kind of ghost. In his statement to Judge Quiroga three years earlier, he had given details about how things had happened at the crime scene that were damaging to the defendants. But now, as his turn to testify at the trial approaches, they can’t find him.
[Archival audio]: We have to wait for the defendants to testify and see how the trial unfolds, and ask that the statement of this guy Vesselizza Randi, who can’t be located, be declared void, because it’s the backbone of the entire trial. And more than a witness, that man is going to leave here as a defendant, charged with perjury. And if that person isn’t here, I think this trial has to end now.
[Mariano Pagella]: This is how the barra members’ lawyers talk about Darío in the media. They’re probably trying to intimidate him so he won’t show up, or so that, if he does, he’ll be more nervous and contradict himself. His testimony is just days away, and Darío is nowhere to be found. The police go looking for him at his grandmother’s house. But she has no idea where he is either and says she’s no longer in touch with him. Then they send a court order to a company where he supposedly works, but nobody there knows him. They also go to the two addresses listed in the voter registry, and nothing. They ask the social security agency and the immigration agency for information, and they even find his mother’s house in the interior of the province of Buenos Aires, but no leads turn up there either.
Everyone is looking for him, until one day, with less than a week to go before the date he’s supposed to appear, Darío shows up on the front page of the sports newspaper Olé, where Gustavo Grabia works.
[Gustavo Grabia]: And in the middle of all that, well, we had gotten the scoop of finding out who the prosecution’s protected witness was, which was Darío Vesselizza Randi, and we managed to track him down.
[Mariano Pagella]: The story includes a photo of Darío covering his face with both hands, his elbows resting on a bar table. He’s wearing a black T-shirt with a red sweatshirt draped over his shoulders. Darío shares some of what he had told Judge Quiroga in his statement. He says he doesn’t know if he’ll go to court and explains that he’s more afraid of the police than of the barras. That’s why Gustavo didn’t know whether Randi would show up at the hearing either.
[Gustavo Grabia]: And of course, the big question was first whether he’d go testify. Because you never know whether a protected witness is going to turn on you the day before, or, in the hours before, say, «I’m not testifying, I got scared,» or «You promised me this and you didn’t deliver.» There are lots of circumstances you don’t control, and you don’t know what’s going to happen.
[Mariano Pagella]: And that brings us to the morning of March 26, 1997, almost two weeks after the trial began. Inside the court, arguments begin over what to do with the testimony Darío had given during the pretrial investigation. If he doesn’t show up and his statement isn’t entered into the record, the barra members could get a more lenient sentence. So the barra members’ lawyers want the judges to declare his testimony invalid.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: They challenged him and asked for his statement to be declared void, saying he was an undercover police officer, an intelligence plant, et cetera, none of which would have invalidated the testimony.
[Mariano Pagella]: The judges call a recess to rule on that motion. But around noon, when the hearing resumes, a piece of news makes the debate irrelevant: the clerk announces that Darío has shown up.
[Marcelo Parrilli]: In my 47 years of practicing law, all the critical witnesses in a trial, for or against, have always shown up. Always. Even when nobody had known for years where they were or where they lived, on the day of the trial, they showed up.
[Mariano Pagella]: After the announcement, a short man with light blue eyes, well dressed and with a neat haircut, walks in looking straight ahead and heads toward the judges.
[Gustavo Grabia]: And the first thing we felt when they announced him and he walked in was, «OK, they didn’t sell us a bill of goods.»
[Mariano Pagella]: Darío walks past the families of the defendants and of the victims. Then he walks past the barra members and finally reaches the table with the microphone. There, in front of everyone, his voice is heard for the first time.
[Darío Vesselizza Randi]: My name is Darío Randi, and it fell to me to be a witness to the murder of Delgado and Vallejos after a Boca-River clásico.
[Mariano Pagella]: Darío’s account, in his own words, with every detail of what happened that April 30, in the next episode of Superclásico 94.
[Silvia Viñas]: Superclásico 94 is a podcast from Central, the series channel of Radio Ambulante Studios, and is part of the My Cultura podcast network from iHeart Radio.
This series was produced by Mariano Pagella, Alejandro Marinelli, and Sergio Renna.
The editors were Pablo Argüelles, Daniel Alarcón, and me.
Fact-checking is by Ana Prieto.
Mariano did the sound design, with original music by Nicolas Pagella, who also composed the series’ theme music. Martín Cruz was in charge of sound mixing and mastering.
The series’ graphics and art direction are by Diego Corzo. Digital production was done by Andrés Centeno with Óscar Luna.
Business development and strategic partnerships were led by Camilo Jiménez Santofimio. And Julián Santos and Eric Spiegelman provided legal support.
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