The cameras recorded the moment when the Argentinian accused of killing his son escaped from the hotel in Barcelona | Indirect violence

The security cameras of the Concordia hotel in Barcelona recorded the moment when Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio, the Argentinian accused of killing his 2 year and 9 month old son in a room in the complex, escapes by jumping a fence from the pool area then fled.

The video, published by the Spanish media 20minutos, first shows lvarez Giaccio leave room 704 at the Concordia – where police later found the boy’s lifeless body – then the man can be seen jumping a fence from the hotel pool.

In the images, of vital importance to researchers, the Argentine wears a Gray t-shirt, jeans and red sneakers, the same clothes described by the taxi driver who claimed to have taken him to the airport on the same day.

Álvarez Giaccio, 44, is accused of the murder of his young son in a indirect violence, the cruelest extreme point of gender-based violence, where sons and daughters become an instrument of torture for the mother. In this specific case, according to the hypothesis retained by the investigators, the accused He wanted “revenge” on his former partner for ending the relationship.

The research

This week, the operation to find Lvarez Giaccio has intensified and different portraits through social networks, by train and bus stations and by some emblematic corners of the city, contemplating the possibility that the suspect is in disguise or has changed in physical appearance.

On August 24, the Argentine economist of Spanish nationality, who had studied at the University of Barcelona and worked in the financial sector, left the Concordia hotel, after having committed the crime, and he turned off his cell phone. He had his passport with him and had asked a relative for money.

Then I would have taken a taxi and I would have gone to the airport, according to the testimony of a driver who claims to have taken him to El Prat. Investigators are currently focused on examining the facility’s security cameras, although they believe the suspect has not left the country.

The taxi driver who brought him to the airport explained in his testimony that lvarez Giaccio He was dressed the same way hotel security footage captured him (gray shirt, jeans and red sneakers) and he had nothing on him. He also claimed that when he arrived in El Prat, the man paid him and asked him to wait for him, but since he did not return after 15 minutes, the driver decided to leave the premises. facilities.

Once inside the airport, investigators reconstituted, Alvarez Giaccio reportedly told security personnel that he did not want to travel, but had to make a case in the central hall.

While security cameras are being analyzed, the Mossos d’Esquadra are examining calls from people from different parts of Catalonia who have said they have seen it, but so far none have had a positive result , reported 20 Minutes. The Argentine has so far not contacted his relatives who live in Spain.

Indirect violence

“At the hotel I leave you what you deserve”. It was the last message that Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio sent to the mother of the little murdered child. Therefore, investigators believe it is a possible crime for indirect violence, since it is a sexist assault against the woman, from whom he was separating, through his son. In June, just two months ago, another similar case shocked Spanish society, when Tomás Gimeno was accused of killing his two daughters to harm his ex-wife.

On August 24, Alvarez Giaccio went to pick up his son from the apartment on Arizala Street, in Barcelona’s Sants Badal district, “to take him for a walk”. From there he drove to the Concordia hotel in Barcelona and spent the whole afternoon in the pool with the baby, filming him and taking pictures of him which he sent to his wife, whom he was already separated.

As the police later learned, Alvarez Giaccio told him he would kill himself and warned him that “he was going to regret” leaving him. When the woman got the last message saying “I will leave you in the hotel what you deserve”, she ran to the accommodation scared of what might happen, but they did not allow her to enter because she did not. was not listed among the guests.

Finally, when the Mossos d’Esquadra arrived, they entered Room 704, where Alvarez Giaccio was staying, and found the child’s lifeless body under the bed. The death, experts later determined, was allegedly caused by suffocation.