The corpse of the Argentinian who killed his son has been identified in Barcelona | Filicide committed by Martín Álvarez Giaccio shocked Spanish society

The Mossos d’Esquadra, the Catalan police, found this Wednesday at noon a lifeless body next to a canal in the delta of the Llobregat river, a few meters from the road that gives access to El Prat airport (Barcelona. At the last minute, the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) confirmed that it is Martin Ezequiel lvarez Giaccio, the man who killed his son in a Barcelona hotel last August. The agents, who had been looking for the alleged murderer for three weeks, had lost his track precisely at the airport. Investigators recognized him from the sneakers he wore. Thanks to analysis of fingerprints and DNA samples, the man has been “fully identified” as the alleged murderer, the TSJC reported. According to police sources, Álvarez hanged himself.

The headquarters of the Mossos d’Esquadra had been looking for Álvarez Giaccio since August 24, the day of the crime. Security camera footage captured the man as he was leaving the hotel where he was staying with his son and the final clues to his fate located him at El Prat airport.

The regional police have maintained a large search system to try to locate Lvarez as the alleged perpetrator of the death of his son, a two-year-old boy, which occurred on the night of Tuesday, August 24, in a room at the Concordia hotel. . in Barcelona. “At the hotel I leave you what you deserve,” he wrote in a message to his wife, who had separated from him. In recent days, investigators had tightened the fence and were convinced he had committed suicide, but were unable to locate the body. Yesterday, a patrol from Mossos guarded the small road that runs along the canal and the delta, little frequented because it gives access to an airport services area.

The events happened around 10 p.m. on August 24. The mother alerted the police that her ex-partner had taken the boy to a hotel in Barcelona and was sending him alarming messages. The police found the boy in a room on the seventh floor of the hotel, on Avenida del Paral·lel. When the ambulances arrived, the boy was unconscious and had a purple face. They couldn’t revive him.

At first, it was believed that Ilvarez Giaccio had escaped abroad, but security cameras captured him leaving the airfield in the direction of Prat de Llobregat.

The Police had posted various portraits on social networks, in train and bus stations and in some iconic corners of the city, considering the possibility that the suspect had disguised himself or changed his physical appearance.

Álvarez Giaccio, 44, has been charged with the murder of his son in a indirect violence, the cruelest extreme point of gender violence, where children become an instrument of torture for the mother. In this specific case, according to the hypothesis retained by the investigators, the accused she wanted “revenge” on her former partner for ending the relationship.

On August 24, Álvarez Giaccio went to pick up his son from the apartment in Arizala Street, in Barcelona’s Sants Badal neighborhood, “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 ex-partner.

“At the hotel I leave you what you deserve”, was the last message that Ilvarez Giaccio sent to the mother of the murdered child. According to what police later learned, the man told him he would kill himself and warned him that “he was going to regret” leaving him.