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The Mossos d'Esquadra found this Wednesday at noon a lifeless body next to a canal in the delta of the Llobregat river, a few meters from the road that gives access to the El Prat airport (Barcelona. Late at night, the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) confirmed that it is Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio, the man who killed his son in a hotel in Barcelona last August. The agents, who had been looking for the alleged murderer for three weeks, had him lost track precisely at the airport. Investigators recognized him by the sports shoes he was wearing. Thanks to the analysis of fingerprints and DNA samples, the man was "fully identified" as the alleged murderer, the TSJC reported. According to sources police officers, Álvarez hanged himself to kill himself.
Instruction 1 #ElPrat has proceeded that it takes to fer l'aixecament of cadaver of cos localitzat prop de l'aeroport.
The judicial entourage has anat fins el lloc on es trobava the cos that has been identified as the home of the death of the seu fill in a hotel in #Barcelona
- TSJCat (@tsj_cat) September 15, 2021
The regional police maintained a wide search device to try to locate Álvarez as the alleged perpetrator of the death of his son, a two-year-old boy, which occurred on the night of Tuesday, August 24, in a room at the Concordia hotel in Barcelona. "At the hotel I leave you what you deserve," he wrote in a message to his wife, who had separated from him. In recent days, investigators had tightened the fence and were convinced that he had taken his own life, but they had not been able to locate the body. Yesterday, a Mossos patrol guarded the small road that runs parallel to the canal and the delta, little traveled because it gives access to an airport services area.
The events occurred around 10 pm on August 24.
The mother alerted the police that her ex-partner had taken the boy to a hotel in Barcelona and was sending him alarming messages.
Police officers found the boy in a room on the seventh floor of the hotel, on Avenida del Paral·lel.
When the ambulances arrived, the boy was unconscious and with a purple face.
They couldn't revive him.
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As the surveillance cameras analyzed by the police show, the man left the room, verified that there was no one in the corridor and jumped a fence of the swimming pool to leave the hotel with sports clothes. The Mossos placed him for the last time at the airport. They found that he had not taken any flights. The agents asked for citizen collaboration to find him.