Diego Boneta, Luis Gerardo Méndez and Belinda will star in the series about the last day of Paco Stanley

Luis Gerardo Méndez, Diego Boneta and Belinda. Getty / AP

Mexican society, accustomed to horror, was horrified.

At 8:30 in the morning on June 7, 1999, like every morning,

the program

, directed by Francisco Jorge Stanley Albaitero, or

Stanley for the country that adored him.

That Monday, Stanley opened with an inevitable joke.

His partner, Mario Bezares,

the main target of most of his jokes, had broken a toe on his left foot and was wearing a splint.

"Look what happened to

, the useless one, ”Stanley says as soon as he begins.

"I broke my finger," Bezares answers shyly, overreacting his misfortune.

“It's from kicking his kids,” Stanley says, drawing laughter from a recording studio full of kids.

Thus began the last day in the life of Paco Stanley, who was shot to death as he left the restaurant El Charco de las Ranas, in Periférico Sur, where he had been having breakfast with part of his team.

Amazon Prime Video is preparing a series about that last day that will star (it is not yet known what role each one will have) by three renowned actors, as reported by Alonso Aguilar, head of Amazon Originals, to the specialized media

.

Diego Boneta, the Mexican actor who stars in

will probably assume the role of Paco.

Luis Gerardo Méndez is known for his participation in the Netflix series

and the series

, from the same platform.

The last great protagonist is the singer and actress Belinda Peregrín Schüll, who participated in

, from Netflix.

Halfway through that day's program, Paco Stanley was reading messages that the audience had left him, but one of them disturbed him, he dropped everything and yelled at his representative: "Pedroza, to the booth!"

When he returns he is no longer the same.

He takes off his suit jacket, apologizes and says that he's hot, that it's very hot in the studio.

He continues with the program, professional, but somewhat more tense.

He says goodbye with: "I want to give you bad news, we're leaving!", Which saddens the children and the rest of the public.

From there they go to El Charco de las Ranas for breakfast.

In the restaurant are Jorge Gil, his driver, Paola Durante and Mario Bezares.

When leaving, Mario excuses himself for a moment, first because he receives a call, and then because he says he needs to go to the bathroom.

Stanley waits outside, in the driver's seat of his Lincoln truck and accompanied by Jorge Gil.

Then, according to Angélica Cuéllar's book

at least five men approached Stanley's car with long weapons and fired up to 23 bullets.

Four of them pierced the presenter's body from behind, and killed him instantly.

Gil was shot twice in the leg and the hitmen escaped, without a trace, after committing a crime that has gone unpunished to date.

"The death of Paco Stanley marks a before and after in the history of our country," says Aguilar, the promoter of the series that will begin filming at the beginning of this year.

, horrified by the crime of a colleague very dear to the chain, shows explicit images of Stanley shot inside his car.

Through shattered glass, the country looks out and sees Stanley dead, sitting in his seat, his bleeding head resting on the vehicle's steering wheel.

The coverage of the murder is exhaustive, and some television presenters, who were not used to losing their composure, lashed out at the governor of Mexico City at the time, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, with shouts of fury and banging on the table, for the lack of control. of violence, which according to them, was rampant in the capital because of them.

So far, Stanley's children have not allowed anyone to tell the story.

Paul Stanley, his son, refused to let

make the production about the life of his father.

In a meeting with the press reported by the Milenio media outlet

Paul confessed that they rejected the offer because the producers wanted to follow "a tabloid trend."

"Before everything and after everything there is the image of my dad," said Paul, who also pointed out that, for the series to be possible, he cannot only talk about the last three hours of his father's life: "We want tell how beautiful his career was ”.

In the future installment produced by Amazon, Rodrigo Patterson (

) and Alexandro Aldrete (

) will be the scriptwriters, Humberto Hinojosa Ozcariz (

) will be the director.

The producers will be Pablo Cruz, from El Estudio, and Pablo García Gatterer, from Tigre Pictures.

In the streets, the television channels captured, microphone in hand, the most immediate and visceral reactions of the people, moments and days after the death of the beloved television presenter.

Before the

cameras , a woman screams in sorrow: "The feeling of pain, of impotence, that we lack a government, we lack people with pants so that they can free our men, our children, our husbands."

Another woman, calmer, reasoned: "It's not fair, because he was a man who made people entertained."

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