A gas station camera recorded Álvaro Prieto on the roof of the train car before being electrocuted

An electric shock caused the death of Álvaro Prieto, whose body appeared this Monday between two train cars at the Santa Justa station in Seville.. The Government Delegate has confirmed in an interview on Canal Sur Radio that a security camera at a gas station near the area where the Santa Justa station workshops were located recorded the young man from Cordoba standing on the roof of a train, which was housed in the station garages.

Pending the autopsy, the main hypothesis is that the wiring in that area of the convoy electrocuted the 18-year-old soccer player who played in the lower categories of the Córdoba Football Club.. That is the theory that prevails among investigators after the first analyzes of the lifeless body of the young man from Córdoba, according to sources in the case.. The investigations indicate that the body remained in that place since its trace was lost early last Thursday. It is a medium-distance train that had been damaged for months and had not been in service since August 24, according to Renfe.. Just today he was carrying out some maneuvers without passengers when a TVE camera captured his movements. The journalists were there to cover the event and in the images they collected they could see legs protruding inertly between the two carriages.. Both the shoes and the clothing that the body was wearing matched the description provided by the relatives: beige pants and a green shirt.. Hours later, police sources officially confirmed that it was the young man who disappeared after the intervention of Scientific Police officers..

The investigation is being carried out by the National Police under the coordination of the Investigative Court number 11 of Seville, which was on duty when the report of the disappearance was received on Thursday.. Initially, the court decreed secrecy of the proceedings, but lifted it once the body was located.. That decision made it possible to predict that it had not been a violent death. A judicial commission under the coordination of the Investigative Court number 17 of Seville, on duty for incidents this Monday, moved to the Santa Justa roads to proceed to remove the body..

Outstanding questions

Sources close to the family inform this newspaper that the final autopsy was scheduled for this Tuesday, but the appearance of the body suggests that he died of electrocution.. The body showed no apparent signs of violence, so the thesis of accidental death is imposed.. But the case still presents unknowns, such as unraveling why he entered that place, how it was possible for him to enter and what his last movements were.. Also the actions of the station staff or why he did not choose another place or ask for help to recharge the phone battery..

The disappearance of Álvaro Prieto kept his family and friends, his team and the authorities in suspense. He traveled from Córdoba to Seville last week to party on Wednesday with friends and had a return ticket for the next day first thing in the morning. But he lost it, he never got on that train back home. No one found his whereabouts for four days.. His last known movements led the search to the Santa Justa station, where he tried to get on another train for which he did not have a ticket and the guards threw him out..

He also did not have money or battery in his cell phone to communicate with anyone.. The family took just a few hours to file a complaint on Thursday and asked for citizen collaboration to find any clues.. Among the many calls they received, there was at least one to which they gave credibility. It was from a woman who claimed to have seen the young man alive and in good condition around 10:30 on Thursday.. It located Álvaro Prieto in the vicinity of the station, specifically on Kansas City Avenue.. However, Police investigators, with the help of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), focused from the beginning on the roads..

Hours before finding Álvaro Prieto's lifeless body, his mother gave an interview to the Onda Cero microphones where she offered two options to explain what could have happened to her son: “It occurs to me, since walking doesn't go away. to come, by car. “A car stops and, one of two, either they took him in the car and did everything to him or they ran him over while walking.”. Finally, the body appeared at the same station where the track was lost on Thursday, but in a remote place and not freely accessible to the public without the authorities finding it..

The City Council of Córdoba has declared this Tuesday a day of official mourning. Córdoba Club de Fútbol fans organized “a small tribute” at gate 00 of the El Arcángel stadium. The president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, expressed his “dismay and pain”. He also expressed his desire to have “maximum clarity” of the work that the State Security Forces and Corps carry out from this moment on to know “what the events have been in Álvaro's death.”. RTVE has issued a statement in which it “deeply regrets” the live images that have accelerated the discovery of the body..