He Disappeared And Days Later His Body Was Found By A Live TV Program

The young man in the pic was Álvaro Prieto López, 18 years old at the time of the events.

He was born in Russia and that at the age of four he was adopted by his parents Rafael and Julia. The marriage that also has a daughter was from Galicia (Spain) but for work they went to live in Córdoba (Spain) and built their life there.

During his early years Álvaro studied at the School of Slaves and already as of legal age began to study Mechanical Engineering at the University of Córdoba becoming one of his best students.

As if this were not enough, he was also a youth player of the Córdoba soccer club.

His acquaintances say that he was a hard-working boy, good, responsible and that he never got into trouble.

As you can see Álvaro had a bright future but one night an accumulation of circumstances led him to make a bad decision that ended his life.

The facts:

On the night of October 11, Álvaro went out to party with his friends. The chosen place was a nightclub in Seville where he stayed until the wee hours of the morning.

Suddenly he realized that it was late for him to take the 7:20 a.m. train to Córdoba, so he left his friends behind and quickly left for Santa Justa station.

At 7 he sent a message to his father to tell him that he was already going to the stop. The problem was that after this message he ran out of battery on the phone, which did not allow him to access either his train ticket or his credit cards.

According to Renfe’s version, as the boy could not show his ticket, the staff asked him for different data to be able to locate him in his system. In the end they found that ticket but by that moment the train had already left and it was useless.

The station staff informed him of his policy regarding the loss of trains, which included not being able to change the ticket for another. Faced with the bewilderment, the young man looked for alternatives, one of them traveling on another train, but he was informed that this option was not viable.

The workers told him that the only thing he could do was buy an AVE ticket (high-speed train) to Córdoba for 40 euros, but since he had no cash he left the box office area in desperation.

At 9 in the morning, Álvaro tried to sneak on another train to Barcelona that passed through Córdoba. To access the convoy, the boy jumped the train tracks, which caught the attention of some workers.

According to the version of these workers, the boy was identified by a stess and although she explained what was happening to him, he did not let him get on the train. The workers maintain that they offered him to charge his phone, however, he rejected the proposal and left.

After this incident, the cameras of the station recorded him in the vicinity of it without leaving the enclosure. From here on, nothing more will be heard from him.

The disappearance:

In Córdoba on October 12, Álvaro’s family was waiting for him to eat, but when they saw that he was not arriving and that his phone was off, they decided to go to the police.

The National Police the first thing he did was talk to the workers of the Santa Justa station, since in his last message Álvaro said that he was going there. But unfortunately after the incident they had not seen him again.

On the other hand, his friends, with whom he had gone out to party, did not have news of him either, which led the agents to have SOS Disappeared to spread his image.

Thanks to this, the first witnesses appeared. For example, a woman assured the agents that on the morning of October 12 she was walking down the street and that at about 10:30 am she saw the boy on Kansas City Avenue in Seville, very close to the station. Other witnesses said that they also saw him in the same area.

Although in theory this was the most credible clue. About Álvaro, the Police did not want to rule out that the woman had been confused.

As usually happens in this type of case, the investigators received more than 500 warnings about the possible whereabouts of the boy and the information was so confusing and that it needs to be analyzed.

Shortly after, El Córdoba C.F. shared the news through its social networks and announced that on the morning of Friday, October, they were going to organize to make raids in the area and be able to help in the search for the young man.

During the investigation, the agents realized that in the station there was a part of the tracks that was under construction and through which it could be accessed relatively easily by jumping a small fence. If, as the Renfe workers say, the boy wanted to get on the train anyway, there was the possibility that he would move to the construction area and when he entered there again and something would have happened to him.

For this reason, on the night of October 15 to 16, the National Police along with several operatives of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) installed a tent in the area to carry out a search device.

The area in which they were looking for the young man is the one located at the height of Carretera de Carmona, just a few minutes from the station.

For more than two hours they were collecting possible clues but in the morning confirmed the search carried out with specialized gifts and dogs had not been successful.

But within a few hours the worst news arrived…

They find Álvaro:

On Monday, October 16, that is, 4 days after the disappearance, a program was broadcasting live images of the train track while they were talking about Álvaro’s case. Suddenly one of the images left them shocked. And it is that between two wagons of a train there was a body. Hours later it was learned that this belonged to Álvaro.

According to Renfe, this train had been stopped in the maintenance area of Santa Justa station since August 24 and that same Monday it moved to facilitate the entry of another convoy.

The curious thing is that the discovery occurred in an area that had already been tracked by the security forces that were looking for the young man and that was going to be beaten again that same Monday.

The preliminary autopsy determined that Álvaro died electrocuted and that there was no intervention of third parties, which apparently also confirmed by the surveillance cameras of a nearby gas station.

The media published that Álvaro could be seen in them on the morning of his disappearance walking over the car of a train that was stopped due to a breakdown. Those same cameras collected the moment in which the boy was electrocuted when touching the catenary which carries a “very large current intensity. Then the young man fell between the wagons where he was found 4 days later.

The big unknown is how he managed to get to the roof of the wagon... Although at first it was thought that the boy had achieved it by jumping over a bridge, now this has been ruled out.

In a statement, the boy’s family wanted to say thank you for the countless expressions of support and affection received. To this they added that they wanted respect and tranquility to be able to say goodbye to Álvaro.

Theories:

In such media cases and with things that do not fit, speculations and leaks could not be missing. Yesterday, analyst ALVISE PÉREZ published the following on his telegram account.

“I return to Álvaro Prieto’s investigation: The alleged video of the gas station DOES NOT EXIST.

Although the first information from the media pointed to the video of a gas station where it would appear ‘jumping off a bridge, and falling between two wagons’, the Police now claims to have demonstrated three proofs that make the version of the video impossible:

1. They have found ascending fingerprints of Álvaro Prieto on the walls between wagons.

2. The car under the bridge was diesel, and it was not connected to any electric current.

3. The distance from the bridge to the roof of the train is three meters. With the curved roof and the cables in the middle, police sources say that “the jump is impossible, of course.

The most plausible version at the moment is that ADIF, which is the company in charge of the infrastructure, was interested in hiding that Álvaro Prieto was able to access the tracks due to the terrible conditions of the walls and fences, then ran on the tracks, climbed the wagon, and his left hand touched the upper cable of 3,500 volts.

The video that all the media swore to exist was just a spark, and the main line of research unraveled in this Community has turned out to be true.”

And finally, he makes a note about Renfe:

“RENFE has even lied about the fact that Álvaro ‘recled a charger’ offered by the station staff; in fact they offered him a charger incompatible with his phone.”

As I said before, this is information published by analyst Alvise Pérez and only time will tell if he is right.

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Sources:

https://elpais.com/espana/2023-10-16/hallado-el-cadaver-de-alvaro-prieto-entre-unos-vagones-de-tren-en-sevilla.html?outputType=amp