How the murder committed by Daniel Sancho has squandered the heritage and reputation of a saga

The paint with which some vandals have maliciously desecrated the bust of Sancho Gracia located since 2014 in the Galician municipality of Mondariz-Balneario after the sentence to life imprisonment of Daniel Sancho It has become, however, a cruel metaphor for the stain that the grandson of the interpreter of Curro Jimenez has left in his surname and his family saga. Because with the terrible crime he committed in the summer of 2023, murdering, dismembering and dispersing the remains of the surgeon Edwin ArrietaSancho’s grandson has ruined the good name of a family that had always stood out for its discretion, its exquisite education and, fundamentally, its great professionalism.

His grandfather, Sancho Gracia, worked from a young age to fight for his dreams. Orphaned by his father when he was still a child, as his father died at the age of 29 due to peritonitis, Félix Ángel had to accept that his mother rebuilt her life with Gabino Abril, a man who wanted them to emigrate to Uruguay to seek a better future. Before embarking on their new life, however, the new patriarch of the family died, but his mother decided that both she and her son should continue with their plans and they crossed the pond. Sancho Gracia had no choice but to start working and had no qualms about getting a job in a car buying and selling company or in a soap company until he was able to study acting and debut in theatre.

It was the stage that revealed to him his great passion, but it was also the stage that introduced him to the great love of his life. Noela Aguirre She was the daughter of a well-known politician, Martín Aguirre Rodríguez Larreta, a member of the National Party of Uruguay and a journalist by profession. She interviewed him, they fell in love and began a relationship. Despite being so in love, in 1963 Félix returned to Spain, where he was welcomed by the Rabal familymainly by Paco and his brother Damián, a very well-connected agent. They supported him so that his face became known and almost indispensable in some cinematic successes of the time. His relationship with Noela continued at a distance until they married by proxy in 1967. She then ended up moving to Madrid and giving him three children: Rodolfo, Felix and RodrigoThey lived a happy marriage and proudly enjoyed the success of Sancho Gracia in Curro Jimeneza character with whom he amassed a significant fortune so that his family could live comfortably without worries.

But one of the children of that happy home, Rodolfo, soon wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and launch himself into acting as a child, since at the age of eight he already took part in the mini-series The disasters of war. Seduced by the profession he had been brought up with at home, in the mid-90s he took part in several productions, among them, curiously, Curro Jiménez: the return of a legendBut his big hit, where he became a teenage idol, was in Leaving class. Although he made his film debut in 1995 with Little piecetelevision has been what has given him the greatest fame in series such as Loving in troubled times, The lady, Isabel o The Ministry of Time. Lucky for those jobs, because Rodolfo had barely left his adolescence when he became a father. He was 19 years old when he became a father with Silvia Bronchalowho was also an actor at the time. Little Daniel was a joy for his grandparents and a reason for Rodolfo to mature, who always stood out for his professionalism and impeccable manners in his dealings with colleagues and the media.

Instilling that spirit of effort, Daniel He received tennis lessons as a child, as it was his passion, until his love for cooking took a backseat to that of the courts. As he grew older, he followed his own path, far from his father, who fell in love with his co-worker in 2005. Xenia Toasted during the filming of Free Cuba. Together they have a little girl named Jimenawhom they have tried to protect from the drama that fell upon them when Daniel decided, in the most terrible way, to end a hidden relationship from which he did not know how to get out.

In the summer of 2023, everything changed for the Sancho saga. Not even the bloodiest script of a true crime could have predicted such a terrible outcome for a family so hard-working and loved, until now, by the public.