Twelve years after the controversial death of Mario Biondo on May 30, 2013, a Madrid court has acknowledged for the first time that the death of the cameraman, husband of Spanish presenter Raquel Sanchez Silva, may not have been a suicide, supporting the thesis established in August 2022 by the Palermo court.
This is what emerges from a ruling by the Madrid Provincial Court. "For the first time, a complaint is being filed against certain individuals, with extensive expert evidence and a copy of a court ruling that appears to indicate that Biondo's death was not a suicide," the ruling states.
However, despite the evidence, the court rejected the appeal of the victim's family, as the case "has become final," reports the law firm Vosseles Abogados, which represents Pippo and Santina Biondo, Mario's parents, in Spain.
"The court emphasizes that, immediately after the discovery of the body, investigative activities should have been carried out (wiretaps, wiretaps, and searches), which were not carried out and, given the time that had passed, could not have been carried out by the Italian judicial authorities," they report to the Vosseler law firm.
The Italian cameraman was found hanged from a bookcase in the house where he lived with his wife, Raquel Sanchez Silva, on the central Calle Magdalena in Madrid, while the presenter was traveling to Plasencia, Extremadura, her hometown.
The case was closed in Spain as a suicide. In May 2023, Vosseler's legal team filed a complaint with the Madrid Court of Investigation, claiming there were "contradictions and inconsistencies" between the evidence gathered and the suicide theory.
The complaint was based on the Palermo Court's August 2022 resolution, which deemed the murder hypothesis "probable." From the outset, the Spanish police closed the case as suicide, a dismissal confirmed by an investigating judge.
But the Biondo family has always contested this conclusion, and in 2022, Palermo's investigating judge, Nicola Aniello, closed the investigation due to the expiration of the deadline, but without ruling out murder. Indeed, according to the judge, the evidence suggests a staged cover-up.
The case has returned to the spotlight thanks to the Netflix docu-series "The Last Hours of Mario Biondo." The Provincial Court's judicial resolution now reopens the issue, because "it leaves the door open to a possible appeal to the Constitutional Court, which we will file," reports the Vosseler law firm, which, along with lawyer Leire Lopez and the victim's parents, has called a press conference for Thursday, October 9th, at 12:00 PM at the Collegio de Periodistas in Barcelona, to release all the details of the case and the judicial resolution.
Along with the appeal to the Constitutional Court, the law firm will simultaneously file a claim for financial liability against the Administration of Justice for "evident malpractice in the investigation, autopsy, and final decision to close the case."
(Unioneonline)
