The drama of Matías Bagnato: "I was terrified that this monster would take my new family from me as he did with my elders and my brothers"

Wrapped in pain, with tears in his eyes and a lump in his throat that he was finally able to release,

made a strong confession during the press conference after the death of Fructuoso Álvarez González, the murderer who killed his entire family in the so-called Flores Massacre.

"For the first time I can tell you something that I never did out of fear. During these years, I 

. They asked me if I had succeeded and I never said it because

," he revealed to the press.

"I'm in a relationship with Nicolás. I love you, Nico. Thank you for accompanying me so much these years," he added.

And he explained: "I could never share it for fear that

. They have no idea how painful it was not being able to share what I can finally do today."

Bagnato is 45 years old today.

At his 16th, on February 17, 1994, he lost his entire family when Álvarez González

.

He killed Matías' parents and two brothers, as well as an 11-year-old friend who had stayed the night.

The murderer, who had been a partner of Bagnato's father, tried several times to regain his freedom, but his requests were denied by the Justice.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment and died this Sunday at the age of 63 in the Ezeiza prison due to an infection.

Bagnato made another revelation

.

He said that when the ruling came out that he was denied parole, he learned that a new request for house arrest had entered.

At that time, he received an

.

It said that Álvarez González "had undergone hip surgery, that they had fitted him with a prosthesis and that when they sent him to the prison he put

to obtain his freedom."

Alvarez González, when he was arrested in 2011. He was hiding in a shelter in a farm in Tortuguitas.

As if a heavy backpack had been removed from his shoulders, Bagnato thanked "the help of many people during this ordeal and so many years of struggle."

"I go through all this with a fatigue that is difficult to put into words. It was 30 years in which my greatest driving force was my grandmother. Since she's not here, it's hard for me to move on," he said, breaking down in tears.

And he again referred to suffering from the ups and downs of Justice that, from time to time, threatened to review some benefit requested by the murderer.

"Facing continuous requests for freedom every six months, not being able to go out on the street and living in 24-hour custody... Every six months I would be detained," he lamented.

Today, he closed, he relies heavily on his new family to be able to move on.

"Nico lost his parents. He was left alone with his two brothers. One of them is called Sebi, he has down syndrome. Today, my family is the two of them and they make me very happy."

How was the Flores Massacre?

It happened on February 17, 1994 when a fire broke out in a house on Baldomero Fernández Moreno and Pumacahua streets, in the Flores neighborhood, and

, a friend of the youngest of them who had stayed to sleep that night.

Investigators determined that the fire had been intentionally started by Álvarez González, a former partner of José Bagnato, who threw two drums of fuel and ignited the fire.

Pictures of the house after the fire.

Photo: File

The defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1995, but for having his Spanish citizenship, in 2004 he was extradited to that country to finish serving his sentence.

In Spain they released him and he was recaptured in Argentina in 2011, after

.

Today Matías is part of the Crime Victims Observatory along with relatives of other victims of violence, including Ángeles Rawson, the Once tragedy and Cromañón.

Thanks to the impulse of the observatory, Law 27,372 on the Rights and Guarantees of Crime Victims was sanctioned, through which the National Center for Assistance to Crime Victims was created to assist and advise both relatives and victims of acts of crime. violence.

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