Agostina
Jalabert (31)
was doing very well in Playa del Carmen, where thanks to being a model and influencer, she had a lot of work with her presence at different events, which augured a long stay in Mexico, where she arrived in September 2022. Nothing in her until then presaged an abrupt and shocking end: the young woman was found dead in her two-room apartment that she rented in the Mexican city.
On February 18, her sister Candela (21), who had gone to visit her, found
a horrifying scene
: Agostina was in the bathroom, sitting on the floor, with a belt around her neck, tied to a towel rack. , at a height not exceeding one meter twenty.
"When Candela arrived at the complex where Agostina lived, a security agent on the ground floor told her: 'You
are going to be fined for the noise
you are making.' The police had been there twice, responding to complaints from the neighbors." , tells
Clarín
Germán Jalabert, Agostina's uncle.
"Candela-she continues-she didn't know what the man was talking about, because she hadn't spent the night there. When she went upstairs, nervous, something alerted her: she couldn't open the door. She was locked from the inside."
The post of Agostina Jalabert's father.
Capture Facebook.
Desperate, Candela began to bang on the door and shout for Agostina (a native of Carmen de Patagones).
The one who opened the door was
Juan Manuel, an Argentine from Viedma
, with whom she had resumed a relationship that had been born in Patagonia, then was interrupted and would have resumed a few months ago.
"This boy appeared, who according to my niece had his entire face
bruised
. 'Where is Agostina?', he asked her. 'You ask me, I was with you!'", reviews Jalabert, who is a lawyer for the family, the dialogue.
Finally, Agostina's dog was the one who led Candela to find her sister sitting in the bathroom, leaning against a wall.
"He untied her, thought she was alive, tried to carry her to take her to the living room... All without the help of Juan Manuel. Finally he helped her and Candela tried to do CPR on her. I understand that at that moment they called the police, who arrived and kept out of the apartment."
Suspicions surrounding the death of the model
Agostina's family, especially German and her brother Edgardo, Agostina's father, want to refocus the cause, which for the Mexican Justice would have been framed "as suicide", at least in the first instance.
"Thanks to the media push that the news had, the Mexican Prosecutor's Office of Quintana Roo, corresponding to Playa del Carmen, radically changed its attitude, which was initially negligent," says the uncle.
"Strikingly, the investigation left aside the international protocol that must be followed in cases like this," remarks Jalabert, who is a lawyer.
"The cell phones of Agostina and her boyfriend were not seized, a toxicology test was not carried out on him, the young man who had a scarred face was not questioned and, surprisingly, he
left Playa del Carmen quickly
and his whereabouts are unknown." .
Candela and Agostina Jalabert, in Playa del Carmen
Jalabert tells
Clarín
that Marcelo, father of Juan Manuel, Agostina's supposed partner, called him a few days ago.
"I know him, he is from Carmen de Patagones and he told me: 'How can I be useful to you?' I replied, I want to know the truth, that your son tell what happened. And we agreed that he was going to talk to his son and he promised me to
zoom in
so the three of us could talk. It never happened, Juan Manuel never showed up."
Days later, he found the father of the man suspected by the family again.
"He told me that he understood his son, that he was going to prioritize his health... I am sure that Juan Manuel knows what happened and I want his version of events."
Jalabert thinks about those two calls from the neighbors to the Police and thinks about why the duplicate visit from the police did not dissuade "the scandal."
According to what Clarín
was able to find out
, the Argentine ambassador in Mexico, Carlos Tomada, personally called Edgardo, Agostina's father, to inform him that "the Mexican Prosecutor's Office was
reshaping its investigation
and beginning to not be left alone with the theory of suicide."
On the other hand, the Argentine consul in Playa del Carmen, Lautaro Filchtinsky, collaborated so that the Jalabert family
received the autopsy
"that we will forward to our Argentine lawyer who lives in Playa del Carmen."
At the same time, on the afternoon of this Tuesday, the Jalaberts received the ashes of Agostina
in Carmen de Patagones
,
who, with the consent of the family,
had agreed to have her remains cremated in Mexico.
Sources close to the Argentine Foreign Ministry responded to this medium that "there is an investigation underway and the consulate in Playa del Carmen is working so that all actions are carried out following due process."
Before consulting Germán Jalabert about the state of mind of his niece Agostina during the love affair, he limited himself to saying.
"This relationship hurt her a lot and caused her a feeling of fragility and vulnerability."
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