How was the discovery of the body of the Argentine accused of killing his baby in Barcelona

Marina Artusa

09/15/2021 20:10

• Clarín.com

• Society

Updated 09/15/2021 20:10

The search for the

Argentine who revealed all of Spain

would have ended

: accused of having suffocated his baby to take revenge on his ex-wife, the body found this Wednesday near Terminal 1 of the Barcelona airport would be

Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio

, according to Catalan media.

Consulted by

Clarín

, the Mossos d'Esquadra, the regional police of Catalonia, confirmed the discovery of

a body hanged

in a wooded area near the airport that, due to its appearance and clothing, would be that of the Argentine fugitive.

The

red sneakers

he was wearing, the same ones with which he had been captured by security cameras, provided the main clue.

"But until the forensic or fingerprint recognition is carried out, depending on the state in which the body is found, we cannot give an official confirmation," they assured.

Álvarez Giaccio, a 44-year-old economist who also had Spanish citizenship,

would have hanged himself the same day he escaped

from the hotel where he had stayed with Leo, his two-year-old and 9-month-old son, whom he

would have murdered before escaping

.

He was wanted in Catalonia and throughout Spain for three weeks.

The Argentine was separating from Aurélie, a French woman whom he had married a few years ago and who had decided to end the relationship, something that Álvarez Giaccio was not willing to assume.

She was undergoing psychological treatment but, since she escaped from the hotel where her baby was found dead,

she has not communicated with her relatives or her therapist

.

He had left the second-floor apartment on Arizala street, in the Sants Badal neighborhood of Barcelona, ​​and had moved to El Vendrell, about 70 kilometers away, where his father lives.

The Catalan police found his

Spanish passport

there

, which led to the assumption that Álvarez had not planned his escape.

The door of the house where Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio lived on Arizala, in the Santal Badal neighborhood in Barcelona.

Photo Cézaro De Luca

Although he would have planned the excruciating damage he planned to do to his ex.

On Tuesday, August 24, she picked up her little boy "for

a walk

."

She stayed with the baby in a room at the Concordia Hotel in Barcelona, ​​on Avinguda del Parallel, where Martín and Aurélie had celebrated their wedding.

There, a double costs around 100 euros per night and the hotel manager displays his collection of almost 800 historic Zippo lighters in the lobby.

Martín asked for a room that he paid for in cash.

They gave him 704.

He played, filmed and photographed his baby in the pool, according to other hotel guests who later

recognized him in the posters

that the Catalan police circulated around the city, through the airport, through train and bus stations and around the social networks.

“We are looking for Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio as a person related to the death of his son in Barcelona.

If you have information, call 112 ”, said the notices.

There it was detailed that Álvarez was 1.78 tall and that he had "shaved hair, a trimmed beard, brown skin, an athletic complexion and brown eyes."

The hotel's security cameras captured

the last image of the fugitive

: the one in which he is seen putting his cell phone in the left pocket of his jean and, wearing a gray T-shirt and red

New Balance

shoes

, jumping over the wall of the pool that adjoins the building next door, on Carrer de la Concòrdia, the side street of the hotel.

His escape was seen by the clients of the Bodega Linares, on Carrer de la Concòrdia 6. "We were all here, it was half past ten at night, and a couple of boys who were drinking on the square saw him get off the balconies" , told

Clarín

Anselmo, the owner of the winery where the customers drink vermouth for 4 euros.

"They saw him go

from balcony to balcony

through three buildings and then cling to a gas pipe and go down," rebuilt the owner of the bar.

Until in a moment he

fell backwards

.

He got up and ran up the street along Carrer de Radas. "

Álvarez Giaccio turned off his cell phone and left no traces.

A taxi driver claimed to have taken a passenger with his appearance "and an Argentine accent" to Terminal 1 at Barcelona airport.

There were no records that he had taken any flights

.

Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio.

Even Interpol had issued an arrest warrant.

He considered him a "fugitive wanted for criminal proceedings."

According to the Interpol report, "around 21:21 he had a conversation with his wife with whom he is in separation proceedings, alerting him that everything was going to end at the Concordia Hotel."

"I leave you at the hotel what you deserve"

was the last message that Álvarez sent to his son's mother.

Desperate, Aurélie ran to the Concordia.

She wanted to enter but was not allowed because she was not registered among the guests.

The woman alerted the police but the pediatric ambulance that came to rescue the baby could not save him.

View of the Hotel Concordia in the city of Barcelona where Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio's son was murdered Photo Cézaro Luca

When the ambulance arrived, Álvarez was no longer there.

The hotel's security cameras recorded the moment when the Argentine left the room, where Leo's little body would later be found under the bed.

Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio was born in Buenos Aires, in July 1978. He had renewed in 2019 his Spanish documentation that was valid until 2029. With it he could move

without ground control

through the free movement space within the European Union known as Schengen.

Catalan police found his body this Wednesday in a wooded area of ​​El Prat de Llobregat, near the airport.

The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia confirmed that it is Álvarez Giaccio.

Antecedent in Tenerife

His case causes as much horror as the one generated by

Tomás Antonio Gimeno

, who after telling his ex-wife:

“You will not see them again”

, would have sedated his 6 and 1-year-old daughters on the Canary Island of Tenerife, he would have thrown them to the sea and then he would have committed suicide.

The body of Olivia, the eldest, was found 45 days after her disappearance.

There is no news from Anna, the youngest, nor from Gimeno, her father.

"They got along well"

“You could see them together, they got along well, you couldn't hear them arguing.

They would go out on the street with the baby's cart, which was very affectionate, ”

Amanda, a neighbor who has been in the building on Arizala Street to which the Álvarez Giaccio family had moved three years ago

, told

Clarín

.

The building

continues to be guarded

day and night by a Mossos d'Esquadra patrol, who guard the entrance door and the parking lot opposite, where Álvarez Giaccio's car was left.

Two months before Leo's murder, Martín and Aurélie recorded a video for the Happy Sleep site recounting his experience with Aurore, a French consultant on children's sleep who lives in Catalonia.

Leo had been sleeping badly for a year and not letting his parents rest, and Aurore's treatment had caused serene nights in the family.

"Since the third night, Leo is sleeping very well," said Álvarez in the video with a serene voice.

Clarín

contacted Aurore.

"Out of

respect for the family

and due to confidentiality issues, I cannot speak," were his words.

"You're going to regret it," Martín had threatened Aurélie when she left the house on Arizala Street that they shared.

As the police learned later, he had also intimidated her by saying that he would commit suicide.

Madrid.

Correspondent.

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