Marina Artusa
08/30/2021 4:21 PM
Clarín.com
World
Updated 08/30/2021 4:21 PM
On Arizala street in the Barcelona neighborhood of Sants Badal, two officers from the Mossos d 'Escuadra - the local Catalan police - stand guard day and night in front of the period building where he lived until days ago, with his partner and his little son two years and 9 months old,
the Argentine Martín Ezequiel Alvarez Giaccio
, the most wanted man in Catalonia and Spain because he would have committed, it is presumed, an atrocious crime.
With the endorsement of a court order, the portrait of the Argentine
circulates through the Barcelona airport,
through the train and bus stations, through some emblematic corners of the city and through social networks.
“We are looking for Martín Ezequiel Alvarez Giaccio
as a person related to the death of his son
in Barcelona.
If you have information, call 112 ", say the posters that also detail that it is a 44-year-old man, who measures 1.78 and has" shaved hair, a trimmed beard, brown skin, an athletic complexion and brown eyes. " .
The Argentine would have killed his baby
to punish his partner
, who had decided to end the relationship, something that Alvarez was not willing to accept.
The house where Argentine Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio lived in Barcelona.
Photo Cézaro de Luca
They had separated a few days ago and Alvarez, an Argentine economist with Spanish citizenship who studied at the University of Barcelona and had worked in the financial sector, had moved to El Vendrell,
about 70 kilometers from Barcelona
, where his father lives.
On Tuesday, August 24, Martín stopped by the apartment on Arizala Street to look for his little son
"to take him for a walk."
If you went on foot, you will have walked along Carrer de Sants to Plaza de España and perhaps continued along Avenida del Parallel to the Hotel Concordia.
Walking, it's 45 minutes.
By car, 12.
There, where a double costs around 100 euros a night and the hotel manager displays his collection of almost 800 historic Zippo lighters in the lobby, he
asked for a room that he paid for in cash
.
They gave him 704.
Photos and threat
Throughout the afternoon he
was in the hotel pool with the baby
, filming him and taking photos, according to witnesses, that he sent to his ex-wife.
"You're going to regret it," he
had threatened her 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.
It had already gotten dark in Barcelona when Alvarez sent his son's mother his last signal:
"I will leave you at the hotel what you deserve"
, was the lethal message that stuck in his ex like a dagger.
The Hotel Concordia in Barcelona where the baby was murdered.
Photo Cézaro de Luca
Desperate, the woman ran to the Concordia.
She wanted to enter but was
not allowed
because she was not registered among the guests.
When the Mossos d'Esquadra arrived, under the bed in room 704 they found the baby's body.
He would have died from suffocation.
The tests
The hotel security cameras
registered Alvarez, wearing a gray T-shirt, jeans and red sneakers,
stealthily leaving the room and checking not to cross anyone.
Another camera captured the moment in which he
jumps the wall of the pool
and escapes from the hotel.
“We have searched for him all over Montjuic”, an official from the Mossos commented to
Clarín
at the door of the alleged murderer's house.
And he confesses that the more time passes, the more difficult it will be to find him.
Martín Ezequiel Alvarez Giaccio
turned off his cell phone and left no traces.
Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio, 44, who murdered his two-year-old son for the Police.
Photo Cézaro de Luca
A taxi driver claims to have taken him
to Terminal 1 at Barcelona airport.
But there are no records that he took any flights, at least with his name.
If it is confirmed that Alvarez murdered his baby to take revenge on his ex, his case would cause as much horror as that generated by Tomás Antonio Gimeno, who after telling his ex-wife:
"You will not see them again"
, would have sedated his 6-year-old daughters. and of 1 year, he would have thrown them into the sea and then he would have committed suicide, in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.
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.
In Sants Badal, the Alvarez Giaccio neighborhood in Barcelona, the neighbors can't believe it.
Never have
the balconies of the five-story exposed brick building directly across from the three-story, 23-apartment building, one of which Alvarez lived with his family, have been more crowded.
The owner of the copier and printer repair shop next door says he does not remember the Argentine, his wife or the baby.
“I saw his photo on television but
I am not aware of having seen him around here,
in the neighborhood.
And that I have had this place for 40 years ”, he tells
Clarín
.
And while the Spanish Justice is about to issue an international arrest
warrant
,
his car remains parked where he left it
, in one of the underground floors of the building on Arizala Street, in front of the apartment where he went to look for his baby on Tuesday 24 of August.
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