How was the discovery of the body of the Argentine accused of killing his baby in Barcelona

The search for Argentina which revealed to all of Spain: accused of having suffocated his baby in revenge on his ex-wife, the body found this Wednesday near terminal 1 of Barcelona airport is that of Martin Ezequiel lvarez Giaccio, according to Catalan media.

Consulted by Bugle, the Mossos d’Esquadra, the regional police of Catalonia, have confirmed the discovery of a hanged body in a wooded area near the airport which, by its appearance and clothing, was suspected from the outset to be that of the Argentine fugitive. The red shoes that he was wearing, the same ones he had been captured with by security cameras, provided the main clue.

“But until the fingerprint or the forensic examination is done, depending on the state in which the body is found, we cannot give official confirmation,” they said. This afternoon, the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia confirmed that it was Álvarez Giaccio. They confirmed it from their fingerprints and DNA studies.

Álvarez Giaccio, a 44-year-old economist also of Spanish nationality, he would have hanged himself on the day of his flight of the hotel where she had stayed with Leo, her two-year-and-nine-month-old son, who would have murdered before escaping. He was wanted in Catalonia and throughout Spain for three weeks.

The Argentinian was parting ways with Aurélie, a Frenchwoman he married a few years ago and who had decided to end the relationship, which Ilvarez Giaccio was unwilling to take on.

She was in psychological treatment but, since she escaped from the hotel where her baby was found dead, did not communicate with family members or the therapist.

He had moved from the second floor apartment on Arizala Street in Barcelona’s Sants Badal district and moved to El Vendrell, about 70 kilometers away, where his father lives.

Catalan police have recovered their spanish passport, which led to the assumption that Lvarez had not planned his escape.

Although he would have planned the excruciating damage he had planned to do to his ex.

On Tuesday, August 24, she went to pick up her son “for to go for a walk”. She stayed with the baby in a room at the Concordia Hotel in Barcelona, ​​on Avinguda del Parallel, where Martín and Aurélie had celebrated their wedding.

There, a double costs around 100 euros a night and the hotel manager displays his collection of almost 800 historic Zippo lighters in the lobby. Martín asked for a room which he paid for in cash. They gave him 704.

She played, filmed and photographed her baby in the pool, according to other hotel guests who later they recognized him on the posters that the Catalan police circulated through the city, through the airport, through train and bus stations and through social networks.

“We are looking for Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio as a person linked to the death of his son in Barcelona. If you have any information, call 112, ”the notices specify. It was detailed that Álvarez was 1.78 tall and had “shaved hair, a trimmed beard, brown skin, an athletic complexion and brown eyes.”

Hotel security cameras captured the last image of the fugitive: the one in which we see him keeping his cell phone in the left pocket of his jeans and, with a gray T-shirt and red sneakers New balance, jump over the wall of the swimming pool which adjoins the building next door, over Carrer de la Concrdia, the side street of the hotel.

His escape was seen by customers of Bodega Linares, Carrer de la Concòrdia 6. “We were all here, it was half past ten in the evening, and a few boys who were drinking in the square saw him come down from the balconies” , he said Bugle Anselmo, the owner of the cellar where customers drink vermouth for 4 euros.

“They saw it coming from balcony to balcony cross three buildings then hang on to a gas pipe and go down, ”reconstructed the owner of the bar. Until a moment fell back. He got up and ran down the street along Carrer de Radas. “

Álvarez Giaccio turned off his cell phone and left no trace. A taxi driver claimed to have taken a passenger with his appearance “and an Argentinian accent” to Terminal 1 at Barcelona airport. There was no sign that he had taken flights.

Even Interpol had issued an arrest warrant. He considered him a “fugitive wanted for criminal prosecution”.

According to the Interpol report, “at around 9:21 pm, he had a conversation with his wife with whom he is in the process of separation, warning him that everything was going to end at the Concordia hotel.”

“I leave you at the hotel what you deserve”, was the last message that lvarez sent to his son’s mother.

Desperate, Aurélie runs to the Concordia. She wanted to enter but was not allowed because she was not listed among the guests. The woman alerted the police, but the pediatric ambulance that came to rescue the baby was unable to save him.

When the ambulance arrived, Álvarez was no longer there.

Hotel security cameras recorded the moment the Argentine left the room, where Leo’s tiny body was later found under the bed.

Martín Ezequiel Álvarez Giaccio was born in Buenos Aires, in July 1978. He had renewed his Spanish documentation in 2019, which was valid until 2029. With her, he could move no ground control for the area of ​​free movement within the European Union known as Schengen.

Catalan police found his body on Wednesday in a wooded area of ​​El Prat de Llobregat, near the airport.

History in Tenerife

His case is as horrifying as the one he generated Thomas Antonio Gimeno, who after telling his ex-wife: “You won’t see them again”, he would have sedated his 6 and 1 year old daughters on the Canary Island of Tenerife, he would have thrown them into the sea and then he committed suicide.

The body of Olivia, the eldest, was found 45 days after her disappearance. There is no news from Anna, the youngest, or from Gimeno, her father.

“They get along well”

“We could see them together, they got along well, we didn’t hear them arguing. They took the baby cart out onto the street, which was very affectionate, ”he said. Bugle Amanda, a neighbor who lived in the building on Arizala Street where the Álvarez Giaccio family had moved about three years ago.

Building always kept day and night by a police car from the Mossos d’Esquadra, guarding the front door and the parking lot opposite, where Álvarez Giaccio’s car was left.

Two months before Léo’s murder, Martín and Aurélie recorded a video for the Happy Sleep website recounting her experience with Aurore, a French consultant on children’s sleep living in Catalonia. Leo had slept badly for a year and did not let his parents rest, and Aurore’s treatment had caused peaceful nights in the family.

“Since the third night, Leo has been sleeping very well,” Lvarez said in the video calmly.

Bugle contacted Aurore. “For respect for the family and for privacy issues, I can’t speak, ”were his words.

“You’re going to regret it”, threatened Martín Aurélie as he left the house in Arizala street that they shared. As the police later learned, he also intimidated her by saying that he would kill himself.

Madrid. Corresponding.

MG