Spain: accusation of an Argentinian having killed a 4-year-old boy on the hunt

MADRID.- C is an Argentine architect and he has been living a nightmare since he killed a four year old boy during a hunting accident.

The event occurred in Andalusia, in southern Spain, in the same area that had been shaken a few weeks ago by the case of Julen, the five-year-old boy who died falling into a deep well where he could only be saved two weeks later. after

In this case, the victim called Aitor, he was four years old and died almost in flagrante delicto when he was shot in the head that would have come from the hunting rifle of the Argentine hunter.

Luis Antonio Gasparini thought he had shot a boar while he was reaching the little one. "I did not see him, I did not see him," said the architect in front of his lawyer. "The last thing I could think about that day was that I was going to give it to a four year old kid," he insisted.

A graduate of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Gasparini is a 60-year-old architect who has lived in Spain for decades and has practiced a liberal profession there. He is married and his wife is also an architect.

Hungry for hunting, he had witnessed the day of the tragedy at a hunt on a farm called La Lapa, in Guillena, near Seville. He paid almost 300 euros for the right to participate in the hunt.

There was also José Antonio Avalo and his grandson Aitor. Also, a lover of the hunt, to introduce the child in this practice, had dressed him as a little hunter: with camouflage clothing, a vest and boots. These are the clothes with which he died.

The judge in charge of the case accused Gasparini of the alleged crime of reckless homicide. It's free, without a deposit. The boy's father had to remove the shotgun from his hand when everything was happening.

Spanish media say the situation could be complicated. A report from the Civil Guard would have detected irregularities before the dramatic result. Among them, the use of unauthorized ammunition and unauthorized movements inside the firing range.

The local press highlights in particular the paradox that Gasparini is a well-known sympathizer of Podemos, a radical leftist party opposed to hunting, and that he practices it openly. "The Podemos hunter", they describe it.