09/15/2021 10:44 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 09/15/2021 12:03
The Spanish Police found the body of
Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio
, the Argentine who killed his son in a hotel in Barcelona to take revenge on the mother with whom he had broken the relationship days before.
According to the newspaper El Mundo, the Catalan police confirmed the identity of the body.
Police sources cited by the Spanish media indicated the man ended his life the night of the crime and did so by hanging from a tree.
The body was in a wooded area between Barcelona and Prat de Llobregat, where the airport is.
Álvarez Giacco, an Argentine economist with Spanish citizenship who studied at the University of Barcelona and had worked in the financial sector, was accused of having suffocated his baby in room 704 of the Hotel Concordia, on Avinguda del Parallel in Barcelona, the August 24.
Since then, the Catalan police -the Mossos d'Esquadra- and the national police have searched for him by raking the Montjuic area and the surroundings of Barcelona's El Prat airport where, according to the version of a taxi driver who claims to have left him in Terminal 1,
he lose all trace.
The hotel's security cameras, however,
recorded the moment when Alvarez left the room
, where the body of his two-year-nine-month-old son was later found under the bed.
He would have murdered him to punish his wife, from whom he had separated, at her will, a few days ago.
The entrance door to the house where Argentine Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio lived with his family.
Photo: Cézaro De Luca
The local police called for citizen collaboration and released Álvarez's photo to help locate him from the day of the crime.
As the days passed, the search device intensified and the Catalan police released different portraits of the suspect in case he had changed his physical appearance.
Ezequiel Alvarez Ciaccio, the Argentine fugitive in Spain accused of having killed his son.
The last clues about his whereabouts placed him at the El Prat airport.
Although at first it was believed that he may have escaped abroad, the images of the security cameras captured him leaving the airport in the direction of the municipality of Prat de Llobregat.
For this reason, the troops had deployed a wide search device in the areas surrounding the airport to locate him.
In recent days, and after the suspect had not shown signs of life or had contacted any family member, the police established as the main hypothesis that Álvarez Giaccio had committed suicide.
The escape route
Days ago, the security cameras of the hotel in Barcelona where Álvarez Giaccio was staying captured the moment when he escaped from his room and jumped over a fence to flee.
He was wearing a gray T-shirt, jeans, and red sneakers.
The video, broadcast by the Spanish media
20minutos
, was key to the investigation.
Everything indicates that it
was the mother herself who alerted the police
that the father had taken the child and then received threatening messages from the man, from whom he was in the process of separation, with a
"you will regret it
.
"
If the incrimination of the father is confirmed in the facts, it would be a case of vicarious violence, one in which the man seeks to harm the woman through his children.
In 30% of cases of vicarious violence, the murderers of their children end up taking their own lives.
Source: La Vanguardia
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