In three days, on August 3, Netflix premieres The last hours of Mario Biondoa three-episode documentary that reviews the circumstances of the death of the man who was the husband of Raquel Sanchez Silvain 2013, and reflects on the media impact generated by the case.
During the last years, the parents of the Italian cameraman, Santina y Goofy BlondThey have struggled to prove that their son was murdered and that his death was neither an accident nor a suicide, as various police reports have pointed out.
After several appeals, last August the Italian justice system admitted that Biondo’s death could have been due to a murder and that the scene of the alleged crime had been manipulated to make it look like a suicide. The family then requested the reopening of the case in Spain and announced that they were already collecting all the necessary reports and evidence for this, How do we count on this portal?.
In this context, according to now Vozpópuli, legal sources have confirmed that those who were the in-laws of the Extremaduran presenter filed a new complaint two months ago in the Investigating Court number 21 of Madrid against two people, for crimes “that have not been prosecuted” and that “could have directly or indirectly related” to the death of his son. If the deadlines are met, it is expected that the complaints will be admitted for processing this coming fall.
It should be remembered that the cameraman’s family initially participated in the recording of the Netflix documentary, but lashed out at those responsible for the production when they found out that behind him was Guillermo Gomezthe former representative of Sánchez Silva.
This will be ‘The last hours of Mario Biondo’
The trailer for the documentary that Netflix has released includes the call that “a representative of a US technology company” makes to Santina, Biondo’s mother. “The night her son died, there were at least two people at home. Santina, her son was not alone.”
As reported by the streaming platform, this work is “the result of in-depth research work, which has been carried out between 2021 and 2023, and which has included more than 200 hours of recording, about twenty interviews, and the review from a multitude of bibliographic sources. The documentary series includes the choral account of different testimonies that, through their voices and personal opinions, share how they experienced the case, including relatives, journalists, or criminologists.”
ten years after his death
Mario Biondo died in May 2013. The Italian cameraman was found dead and hanging from a shelf in the house where he lived with his wife, the presenter Raquel Sánchez Silva, on Magdalena street in Madrid. The case was dismissed in Spain. The coroner’s report was accepted, which ruled out evidence of criminality, but the Palermo Prosecutor’s Office reopened it and gave a different version: it concluded that there was sufficient evidence to assess premeditated homicide as the real cause of death. The procedure was about to be filed also in Italy but the Biondo family filed an appeal before the High Court of Appeals of Palermo in October 2020. Two expert reports were then attached, one made by the criminologist Oscar Tarruella and another by a team of Italian professionals. Both agreed on the murder hypothesis. The latest documentation presented in court reflected that Mario may have been the victim of strangulation at the hands of two people to whom he opened the door of his house.