They accuse him of killing his baby in Barcelona

In Arizala Street in Barcelona’s Sants Badal neighborhood, two agents of the Mossos d’Escuadra – the local Catalan police – stand guard day and night in front of the period building where he lived until a few days ago, with his partner and his grandson two years and 9 months, Argentinian Martín Ezequiel Alvarez Giaccio, the most wanted man in Catalonia and Spain because he allegedly committed an atrocious crime.

With the endorsement of a court decision, the portrait of the Argentinean drive through Barcelona airport, by train and bus stations, by some emblematic corners of the city and by social networks.

“We are looking for Martín Ezequiel Alvarez Giaccio as a person related to the death of your child in Barcelona. If you have information, call 112 “, say the posters which also detail that it is a 44-year-old man, who is 1.78 tall and has” shaved hair, a trimmed beard, brown skin. , an athletic complexion and brown eyes “.

The Argentinian would have killed his baby to punish your partner, who had decided to end the relationship, which Alvarez was not ready to accept.

They had separated a few days ago and Alvarez, an Argentinian economist of Spanish nationality who had studied at the University of Barcelona and worked in the financial sector, had moved to El Vendrell, about 70 kilometers from Barcelona, where his father lives.

On Tuesday, August 24, Martín crossed the department of Arizala Street in search of his little boy. “To take her for a walk.”

If you went on foot you will have walked along Carrer de Sants to Plaza de España and perhaps continued along Avenida del Parallel to the Concordia Hotel. On foot, it’s 45 minutes. And car, 12.

There, where a double costs around 100 euros a night and the hotel manager displays his collection of nearly 800 historic Zippo lighters in the lobby, requested a room paid in cash. They gave him 704.

Photos and threat

All afternoon he was in the hotel pool with the baby, filming him and taking photos, according to witnesses, which he sent to his ex-wife.

“You are going to regret it”, threatened her when she left the house in Arizala Street that they shared. From what the police later learned, he also intimidated her by saying that he would kill himself.

It was already dark in Barcelona when Alvarez sent his son’s mother his last signal: “I leave you at the hotel what you deserve”, was the deadly message that stabbed her ex like a dagger.

Desperate, the woman ran to the Concordia. I wanted to enter but they did not leave her so as not to be registered among the guests.

When the Mossos d’Esquadra arrived, under the bed in room 704, they found the baby’s body. He would have died of suffocation.

The tests

Hotel security cameras They searched Alvarez, dressed in a gray T-shirt, jeans and red sneakers, stealthily leave the room and make sure you don’t meet anyone.

Another camera captured the moment when jump the pool wall and escapes from the hotel.

“We looked for him everywhere in Montjuic,” commented a Mossos official to Bugle at the door of the house of the alleged murderer. And he admits that the more time passes, the more difficult it will be to find him.

Martin Ezequiel Allvarez Giaccio He turned off his cell phone and left no trace.

Taxi driver claims to have taken it at Terminal 1 of Barcelona airport. But there is no record that he took any flights, at least with his name.

If it is confirmed that Alvarez murdered his baby in revenge on his ex, his case would cause as much horror as the one generated by Tomás Antonio Gimeno, who after telling his ex-wife: “You won’t see them again”, allegedly sedated his 6 and 1 year old daughters, threw them into the sea and then committed suicide, in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.

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

In Sants Badal, the Alvarez Giaccio neighborhood in Barcelona, ​​the neighbors are amazed. They have never been so crowded the balconies of the five-story exposed brick building right in front of the three-story, 23-apartment building, in one of which Alvarez lived with his family.

The owner of the photocopier and printer repair shop next door says he doesn’t remember the Argentinian, his wife or the baby. “I saw his picture on television but I don’t know I saw him around here, in the neighborhood. And that I have had this place for 40 years “, he says Bugle.

And while the Spanish justice is about to issue an international arrest warrant, your car stays parked where you left it, in one of the basements of the building on rue Arizala, in front of the apartment where she went to pick up her baby on Tuesday, August 24.

Barcelona. Correspondent